Our FTS faculty are busy as usual with their teaching and scholarship. \u00a0For more information about each of us click on our names to check out the faculty pages on our offical website \u00a0but for our latest endeavors here’s a quick update:<\/p>\n
Deb Ellis<\/a>: <\/strong>October is a long way a way, but this is the time of year when I start really rolling with organizing the Vermont International Film Festival www.vtiff.org<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited that this year we will present some screenings on campus, and I look forward to having FTS more involved. Keep an eye out in the fall for events in town and on campus.\u00a0 On a personal level, I\u2019m looking forward to spending the month of June at the Johnson Studio Center, Johnson, VT, on a month-long retreat. \u00a0I\u2019ll use the time to get a new rough cut of my current film together (Peace Has No Borders<\/em>) by the end of the month when I plan to submit it for finishing funds.\u00a0 It\u2019s always a gamble, but deadlines are good! \u00a0In July I\u2019ll be heading down to Nantucket for 10 days for some R&R, and look forward to visiting one of our FTS\u00a0majors who is interning for the local station there!\u00a0 Summer always seems to breeze by so fast, so it won\u2019t be long before I\u2019ll be seeing those of you who are returning.\u00a0 Have a great summer!<\/p>\n Dave Jenemann<\/a> <\/strong>has a book chapter coming out this month: “Camouflage Work: Precisionist Painting and the Hidden Subject of Modernism,” in Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity<\/em>, Edited by Zubin Meer, Lexington Books. \u00a0Also, in December, he had an article come out in Flow:\u00a0 \u201cStop Being an Elitist, and Start Being an Elitist,\u201d<\/a> Flow 13.5, (December 2010). \u00a0And in June, he’ll be headed up to the annual Space Between conference in Montreal (Modernism 1914-1945), where he’ll be delivering a paper on modernism and sports broadcasting.<\/p>\n Todd McGowan<\/a><\/strong> is currently finishing his final revisions on The Fictional Christopher Nolan<\/em> and working on his newest book on the disaster film and political action.<\/p>\n Sarah Nilse<\/a>n<\/strong> received tenure this year and her book, Projecting America, 1958: Film and Culture Diplomacy at the Brussels World’s Fair of 1958<\/a><\/em> (McFarland) has been released.\u00a0 She’ll be on sabbatical next year and will be researching and writing a book on the history of the Disney princesses.\u00a0 Research for this project will require trips to the Disney archive in Burbank and hopefully a trip to Disney World.\u00a0 She’ll also be working on a co-edited book with Sarah Turner, The Colorblind Screen: Race and Television in Contemporary America<\/em>.<\/p>\n