Portrait of Joel Neville Anderson

Joel Neville Anderson

Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
School: Roy H. Park School of Communications
Office: Park 372
Specialty: Experimental film and video, documentary, community media, environmental justice, disability studies, Japanese cinema, film festival studies

Joel Neville Anderson is Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College. He earned his PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and BFA in Film at Purchase College, State University of New York. Teaching encompasses cinema and media studies with specialties in experimental film and video, documentary, community media, environmental justice, disability studies, Japanese cinema, and film festival studies, and a pedagogical commitment to engaging theory and practice across seminars and production workshops. Dr. Anderson’s current book projects address the work of Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi as well as self-documentary projects produced within institutions and collectives. His articles, reviews, and festival reports appear in publications such as Studies in Documentary Film, Millennium Film Journal, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Film Comment, Afterimage, Hyperallergic, Senses of Cinema, Film on the Faultline, and the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema. His work coordinating a faculty and student-curated weekly campus screening series was recognized with a Student Engagement Award and he has received grants and fellowships from the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Flaherty Seminar, and Signal Culture. In addition to teaching at Ithaca, the New School, SUNY Purchase, and University of Rochester, he has taught workshops at Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), Museum of the Moving Image, and Jacob Burns Film Center. He programmed JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film, the largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America, and served as co-producer for The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies podcast and Managing Editor and Editorial Board Member of InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture.

Website: www.joelnevilleanderson.com

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Pronouns: he/him

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