Jeanine Basinger
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Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Chair of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University, as well as serving as the Founder and Curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives. She is the author of 10 books including her most recent work, "The Star Machine," which was published last fall. Noah Hutton sits down with Professor Basinger to discuss her scholarly work, teaching film at Wesleyan, and the state of the contemporary film world.
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Friday, Feb 22, 2008John Paoletti
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In a special edition of The Faculty Lounge, Kenan Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History John Paoletti along with student Matthew Alie '08 join Noah Hutton for a roundtable discussion of the recent exhibition Hutton and Alie co-curated under Paoletti's guidance. The show, "Pop to the Present: New Questions, New Responses" opened in January at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. Paoletti also discusses his teaching at Wesleyan University. The program concludes with a portion of a recent talk given by State Senator John Fonfara on the Wesleyan campus as part of a campus-wide climate awareness day sponsored by EON.
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Friday, Feb 15, 2008Neely Bruce; Jorge Arévalo Mateus
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We have two special guests this week. First, Jeremy Finch sits down with Jorge Arévalo Mateus, an ethnomusicology student at Wesleyan University and a DJ at WESU who won a Grammy at Sunday's awards for his role as a producer of "The Live Wire," a rare recording of a live Woody Guthrie performance recently released for the first time by Mateus and his team. Later in the show, Noah Hutton sits down with Neely Bruce, Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. Professor Bruce has a BMU from the University of Alabama, a MMU and a DMU from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a MAA from Wesleyan University. Professor Bruce discusses his courses at Wesleyan, his compositional work, and an upcoming Ives concert.
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Friday, Feb 08, 2008Patrick Dowdey
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Patrick Dowdey is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies as well as the Curator of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. He got his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, his MA and PHD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Jeremy Finch sits down with Professor Dowdey to talk about his education, his lifelong interest in East Asian studies, his research experiences, and his passions as a curator.
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Friday, Feb 01, 2008Peter Mark
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Peter Mark is the Director of the Center for African American Studies and a Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. He received his BA from Harvard University, his MA from Syracuse University, his MAA from Wesleyan University and his PHD from Yale University. He is the author of "Potuguese Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Ninetheenth Centuries." Noah Hutton sits down with Professor Mark to talk about his scholarly work, his teaching at Wesleyan University, and his thoughts on the current crisis in Kenya.
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The Faculty Lounge features a new professor each week from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, discussing their scholarly work, experiences in and out of the classroom, and any other issues of relevance. The program airs every Friday afternoon from 1-2 p.m. on WESU Middletown 88.1fm, or streamed online at wesufm.org. The Faculty Lounge is produced by Noah Hutton '09 and Jeremy Finch '09, students at Wesleyan University.
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