Entertainment & Media Studies
Entertainment and MEdia Studies
Department of EMST Head
Dr. Jay Hamilton
Department Head; Professor; Jim Kennedy New Media Professor
FACULTY
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Laurena Bernabo
Associate Professor
About: Dr. Bernabo teaches undergraduate courses in media industries, and undergraduate and graduate courses in representation and identity. View Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Iowa M.A., Communication […]
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James Biddle
Principal Lecturer
About: James Biddle is an award winning filmmaker and editor who specializes in the teaching of post production workflow and management, audio design, Steadicam operation, visual efx, and the artistic […]
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Shira Chess
Associate Professor
About: Shira Chess teaches courses in media studies and writing. Her research focuses broadly on historical and contemporary digital media studies. View Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer […]
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Matthew Nolte Evans
Associate Professor
About: Matthew Nolte Evans is an award-winning writer and associate professor of screenwriting in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. […]
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Tamlin Hall
Director of MFA in Film, Television and Digital Media
About: Tamlin Hall is a filmmaker, writer, producer, educator, and nonprofit founder whose career has been defined by a commitment to storytelling with social impact. View Curriculum Vitae Education Master […]
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Jay Hamilton
Department Head; Professor; Jim Kennedy New Media Professor
About: Dr. Hamilton teaches cultural, critical, and historical approaches to media studies. His research addresses alternative media and democratic communication. View Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Mass Communication, University of Iowa […]
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Jeffrey P. Jones
Executive Director Peabody Awards, Lambdin Kay Professor
About: Dr. Jones directs the George Foster Peabody Awards, and is Lambdin Kay Professor in the Entertainment and Media Studies Department. His research specialty is television studies, with a focus […]
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Anandam Kavoori
Professor
About: Dr. Kavoori is currently engaged in a program of autoethnographic and narrative writing. View Curriculum Vitae Education MFA. Narrative Non-Fiction writing, University of Georgia. Study in A Second Discipline (Ecology), […]
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Nathaniel H. Kohn
Professor; Director, Cannes Lions Program
About: Dr. Kohn teaches advanced screenwriting, producing for film/television, documentary film, and qualitative methods; directs the Cannes Film Festival and Cannes Lions Study Abroad Programs; directs Roger Ebert’s Film Festival; […]
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Neil Landau
Professor; MFA in Film, Television and Digital Media
About: Neil Landau is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, author and screenwriting professor. View Curriculum Vitae Education Master of Fine Arts, Screenwriting, University of Georgia Bachelor of Arts, Film/Television, University of […]
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Sanghoon Lee
Clinical Associate Professor, MFA Film
About: Sanghoon Lee teaches in our MFA Film, Television and Digital Media program. When he is not teaching, he is a director, producer, writer and cinematographer for independent film projects. […]
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Jessica Maddox
Associate Professor
About: Jessica Maddox (BA ’12, MA ’15, PhD ’18) teaches courses in media studies, cultural studies, and social media. Her research examines content creators, influencers, and social media platforms. View […]
Go Global With Grady
Students are strongly encouraged to study abroad and participate in domestic field studies as a part of their course of study. At Grady College, we feel that students who have a critical understanding of the global scope of Journalism and Mass Communication are set apart in their fields and we take pride in being able to provide these opportunities for students.
From the LA Internship and Field Study program to spending a summer at the Cannes Film Festival, each of our summer programs offers students an experience that strengthens their understanding of their major and/or helps them gain valuable skills that they otherwise couldn’t in a normal classroom setting.
The Grady LA Field Study and Internship Program allows students to gain valuable hands-on experience in the Entertainment industry while earning course credit.
Join your peers this summer on the French Riviera and walk the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France! In this program, students will not only attend the Cannes Film Festival—viewing films before they make their big screen debut and rubbing elbows with prominent film critics, distributors, directors and producers but will expand their perspectives on global media and film while taking classes, taught by UGA professors.
While each program offers courses in specific disciplines, students are not limited to participating in courses only within their major. Many of our Study Abroad and Field Study programs are open to students outside of Grady College majors (including undergraduate and graduate students) as well as students outside of the University of Georgia.
Careers
An Entertainment & Media Studies degree from Grady is a ticket to a world of opportunities in media. Our graduates have gone on to successful media careers at:
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Grady Career Services
The Grady College Career Services office, located in 239C of the Journalism building, and the UGA Career Center offer individual counseling sessions for students to discuss career options, job and internship search strategies, resumes and cover letters and interviewing skills. They also provide workshops on topics related to career planning and development.
Contact Director of Experiential Learning, Samantha Meyer, at (706) 542-5032 or sam610@uga.edu, or Grady Career Consultant, Whitney Denney, at (706) 542-3375 or whitney.denney@uga.edu.
Careers
Creative career opportunities include producing, screenwriting, directing, editing, and postproduction. Corporate/managerial opportunities include those in content strategy and development, distribution, research, programming, and talent management. Research opportunities include governmental policymaking and academic scholarship and teaching.
The Grady College Career Services office, located in 239C Journalism Building, and the UGA Career Center partner to help students and alumni in their career planning and development. The Grady College Career Services office distributes a weekly listserv of job and internship postings.
The Grady College Career Services office and the UGA Career Center offer individual counseling sessions for students to discuss career options, job and internship search strategies, resumes and cover letters, and interviewing skills. They also provide workshops on topics related to career planning and development.
Internships
As part of our experiential learning at Grady, students have the opportunity to earn academic credit while completing an internship. If you successfully complete all of the requirements of an approved internship while concurrently enrolled in EMST 5010, you can earn up to three (3) college elective hours of credit.
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For more assistance and guidance with internships, visit our Careers and Internships page.
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