FACULTY & STAFF
Ross MORIN
Department Chair Associate Professor, Film Studies ROSS.MORIN@CONNCOLL.EDU |
Professor Ross Morin, a graduate of Connecticut College, has returned as a professor of film production and chair of the Department of Film Studies. He earned his M.F.A. in film and video production at Ohio University, where he won the University's Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award. He is the recipient of the University Film and Video Association's Award of Teaching Excellence for Senior Faculty, Connecticut College's highest teaching honor, the John S. King Memorial Teaching Award, and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Faculty Mentor Award. In 2019, he was the project advisor for the film that won Connecticut College's Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for Outstanding Honors Study.
Professor Morin is an award-winning independent filmmaker, writer, editor and cinematographer. His recently acclaimed work includes the award-winning feature horror film A Wheel out of Kilter (2015) and internationally recognized short films A Peculiar Thud (2016) and Ad Noctum (2010). You can read more about him and his work on his website RossMorinFilm. Morin is the co-founder of Kiltered Productions. Professor Morin teaches FLM 210: Fundamentals of Motion Picture Production, FLM 220: Documentary Theory and Production, FLM 238: Screenwriting, FLM 310: Ideological Representation in Motion Picture Production, FLM 320: Experimental Film: History and Practice, and FLM 410: Advanced Production Seminar. He believes in teaching film production as applied social activism, with a strong emphasis on the ethical responsibility of the media maker. He spends his free time mountain biking, homebrewing, and reading Stephen King novels in his garden. |
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Dr. Nina Martin ("Dr. M.") teaches Introduction to Film Studies: How to Read a Film and Studies in Authorship: Women Directors, among others. Dr. Martin serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Film and Video and The Velvet Light Trap. She has served as referee for Cinema Journal, Sexualities, and Sexuality and Culture. She is the author of Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller. She previously taught at Ithaca College, Northwestern University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Emory University. |
Nina MARTIN
Associate Professor, Film Studies NMARTIN1@CONNCOLL.EDU |
Linnéa HUSSEIN
Visiting Assistant Professor, Film Studies LHUSSEIN@CONNCOLL.EDU |
Born in Germany of Iraqi descent, Linnéa Hussein is a media scholar whose primary field of research lies within cinema studies, with an interdisciplinary approach that includes documentary theory, disability studies, and post-colonial theory. She has taught introductory media analysis lectures and advanced seminars on topics such as Arab activist cinema and censorship practices in US film history in different film and media departments at New York University. At Connecticut College, she is teaching classes on Global Documentary, Censorship Practices, Intersectionality, and Language of Film. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Film Quarterly, The New Inquiry, Social Text, and Film & History. |
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Ian Harnarine was born in Toronto to parents from Trinidad & Tobago. He studied physics and astronomy at York University. Harnarine earned a Master’s in nuclear physics at the University of Illinois, and an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Film School. Harnarine is a member of the American Physical Society, the National Board of Review, the Television Academy and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. His films include work for TED and Sesame Street, one of which, The Amazing Song, garnered an Emmy nomination. His short film Doubles With Slight Pepper, Executive Produced by Spike Lee, won the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Academy Award. Caroni, the story of a West-Indian domestic worker in New York City, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and continues to screen at festivals around the world. Harnarine was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film and profiled in the New York Times. |
Ian HARNARINE
Assistant Professor, Film Studies IAN.HARNARINE@CONNCOLL.EDU |
Greg SURMAN
Technician, Film Studies GSURMAN@CONNCOLL.EDU |
Greg Surman is the Film Studies Technician and has been with Connecticut College since 2006. He manages the Equipment Room, maintains all of the equipment and facilities for the Department, and tutors students on equipment usage. Greg received his BFA with a Minor in Art History from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford where he studied Media Arts, sculpture and ceramics. Greg has worked and taught at the Hartford Art School and worked for Real Art Ways as well as the Cartin Collection. He prides himself on being able to build or fix almost anything, and when not on campus, he can be found in his home shop/studio doing just that. |