Dr. Kathleen Newman is an associate professor in Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa. Her research and teaching focuses on Latin American, Chicano, and Spanish cinemas as well as on theoretical questions regarding the relation between fictional narrative and politics and the relation between cinema and globalization.

Kelvin handles all of the equipment for the Cinematic Arts, Mass Communication, and Communication Studies programs at the University of Iowa.

Kaia Olsen is a Professor of Practice for Film and Video Production in the Department of Cinematic Arts.

Andrew Owens is an Associate Professor of Instruction and Head of Film Studies, in the Department of Cinematic Arts.

Leighton Pierce uses video and sound to create experiences in transformative time. He creates multi-channel site-specific installations as well as single channel works that have been exhibited in major art museums and film festivals throughout the world including the 2016-17 Kochi Muziris Biennale, The Whitney Bienniale, and many festivals including Sundance, San Francisco, New York, Tribeca, Ann Arbor, and Rotterdam.

Lauren Rabinovitz's current research and teaching interests include early cinema and culture, feminist film history and theory, and theories and history of visual spectacles. Her books include a social history of women, For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and a critical study of feminist filmmakers, Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-1971.

MFA, Fiction, University of Iowa MFA, Playwriting, University of Iowa BA, Hampshire College

Andrea Schuster received a B.A. in Communication and Philosophy from the University of Iowa, an M.F.A. in Film from Boston University, and an M.A. in English from Oregon State University. She worked as a negative cutter and digital filmmaking instructor in Seattle before returning to Iowa as a Ph.D. student.

Negar is an M.F.A. student in Film and Video Production. She began her studies in Film at an early age, receiving her BA in Cinema and Editing in Iran and worked as a video editor where she fell in love with the art. 

Hope Tucker is an Associate Professor in Film and Video Production in the Cinematic Arts Department.

Professor Emeritus of Cinematic Arts and French. Taught at UI from 1976 to 2020. B.A. & M.A. from U of Wisconsin, Ph.D. from Cornell U.

Zachary Vanes received his M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his B.A. in English Literature and Film Studies from DePauw University.

Getong is an MFA student in Film and Video Production. He creates works that derive from his interests in film, poetry, and music. They often touch upon the ambiguity and fallout between fantasy and reality.

After studying Psychology and Philosophy as an undergraduate, and then working in the mental health industry as a mentor and teacher for several years, Chris earned his M.F.A. at Boston University, writing his thesis on the work of the American experimental animator Don Hertzfeldt. As a PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, Chris has conducted research on doppelgängers, digitality, documentary studies, Left Bank cinema, posthumanism, genre theory, epistolary aesthetics, collectivist ontology, and cinematic depictions of the afterlife. 

Patrick Wimp is an Associate Professor of Instruction for Film and Video Production in the Department of Cinematic Arts.

Rachel Yoder is an Assistant Professor for Screenwriting Arts in the Department of Cinematic Arts.