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CURRICULUM VITAE Nathaniel Kohn, Ph.D. Professor Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Georgia 706/542-4972 office 706/542-2183 fax [email protected] ACADEMIC HISTORY Name: Nathaniel H. (Nate) Kohn Present Rank: Professor Years in Current Position: 9 years (including current year) Years at the University of Georgia: 19 years (including current year) Administrative Title: Associate Director, George Foster Peabody Awards Graduate Faculty Status: Permanent Highest Degree: Ph.D., Communication Institution and Date: College of Communication, UIUC, May 1995. ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD: University of Georgia Professor, Entertainment and Media Studies (previously Telecom) July 2008 to present University of Georgia Associate Professor, Telecommunications July 2002 to 2008 University of Georgia Assistant Professor, Telecommunications July 1997-2001 University of Illinois (UIUC) Visiting Teaching Associate, Unit One, 1996-97 UIUC Visiting Teaching Associate (English), 1995-96 UIUC Visiting Teaching Associate 1995-97 Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering UIUC Visiting Teaching Associate, College of Communications, 1995-97 UIUC Research Assistant 1995-96 Cummings Center for Advertising Studies UIUC Instructor (Art and Design) 1971-72 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT: • Director, UGA MFA Low-Residency Program in Screenwriting (2015-) • Associate Director, George Foster Peabody Awards (2004-) • Co-Director, UGA Cannes Lions Study Abroad Program (2010-) • Director, UGA Cannes Study Abroad Program (2002-) • Festival Director and Co-Founder, Robert Osborne’s Classic Film Festival (2006-10) • Member, Panel of Motion Picture Curators, The Film Movement, New York, New York. 2002-present • Festival Director and Co-Founder, Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival, UIUC, 1999- present • Director/Writer/Editor, Office of Public Affairs, Chancellor’s Office, UIUC 1997. • Writer, UIUC College of Communication Alumni News, UIUC 1996-97. • Columnist, The Octopus Weekly Magazine, Champaign, IL. 1995-96. • Associate Publisher and Co-Founder, The Optimist Newspaper, Champaign, IL. 1994-95. • Editor/Writer, Horizon Hobby Distributors, Champaign, IL. 1990-98. • President and Board Chairman, Filmtrust of Arkansas, Inc., Little Rock, AR. 1987-90. • President and Founder, Samarkand Motion Picture Productions, Inc., New York, NY. 1976-79. • President and Co-Founder, United Pictures Organization, Inc., Chicago, IL. 1974-77. • Partner, Kohn-Vawter Productions, Champaign, IL 61820 1972-75. • News Director and Creative Director, WICD-TV, Champaign, IL 61801. 1968-72. POST GRADUATE AWARDS: Chosen as member of Kappa Tau Alpha (National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication), 1994. Midwest Sociological Society Graduate Student Essay Contest, Prize – 1995. COURSES TAUGHT AND ENROLLMENTS: University of Georgia FYOS 1001 Film Festivals (Fall 2012, 2015, 2016) TELE 5990 Producing for Film and Television (18 students) TELE 4110/7110 Producing for Film and Television (20 students) TELE 3110 Writing for the Electronic Media (16 students) JRMC 8220 Telecommunication Programming and Criticism (3-16 students) TELE 4110/7110 Advanced Screenwriting (16-21 students) JOUR 5590/7590 Critical Writing and Reviewing (26 students) JRL 599 Critical Perspectives in Film and Television (12 students) JRL 383 Basic Writing for Radio/Television/Film (16 students) University of Georgia Cannes Lions Advertising Festival Study Abroad Program (Program co- founder and co-director) TELE 5990/7990 Commercial Production Techniques (60 students) 2 University of Georgia Cannes Film Festival Study Abroad Program (Program founder and director) JOUR 5590/7590 Critical Writing and Reviewing (30 students) University of Georgia at Avignon, France TELE 5990 Advanced Screenwriting (18 students) JOUR 5580/7580 Magazine Article Writing (5 students) JOUR 5590/7590 Critical Writing and Reviewing (13 students) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LAS 110 Special Topics: Writing for the Screen (8-15 students) RHET 105 Freshman English Composition (24 students) AAE 241 Aerospace Systems Design II, Writing Component (40 students) ART 299 Special topics: Feature Film Production (12 students) Supervision of Student Research: Served on 6 doctoral committees Served on 20 masters committees Chair of 9 master committees INSTRUCTIONAL AWARDS: UGA Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award (2003) Grady College Nominee, Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award (2003) Lilly Teaching Fellowship ($2000), University of Georgia, (2000-01). CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: (1995-2017): • Developing new MFA program in film and television production. 2016- • Developed new graduate level course on the Documentary Renaissance. Spring 2013. • Developed Freshman Odyssey Course on Film Festivals. Fall 2012. • Developed new foci for TELE 4220/6220 (Producing for Film and Television). The practical, theoretical, and ethical responsibilities of the motion picture and television producer in the digital age. • Conceived and will co-direct the new MFA in Narrative Non-Fiction and Screenwriting program at the University of Georgia (2012-). • Conceived, developed and directs, new study abroad program: The UGA Cannes Lions Advertising Festival Program (2010-) • Conceived, developed and directs, new study abroad program: The UGA Cannes Film Festival Study Abroad Program. (2003-) • Conceived and developed a new course TELE 5990 (Producing for Film and Television). The practical, theoretical, and ethical responsibilities of the motion picture and television producer. 3 • Developed new foci for JRL 383 (Basic Writing for Radio/TV/Film). Writing as a process emphasizing new ethical issues and responsibilities of the writer in TV, film, and new media. • Developed new foci for TELE 4110 (Advanced Screenwriting). Writing character- centered feature length screenplays rooted in personal lived experience. • Developed a new undergraduate seminar course in critical perspectives in film and television, focusing on the historical/theoretical relationship between cyborgs and adolescents in cinema. • Developed new foci for JRMC 8220 (Telecommunications Programming and Criticism), employing critical/cultural theories (feminist, post-colonial, post-modern, etc.) to better understand programming and programming structure so as to produce more meaningful content for movies, television, and the worldwide web. • Developed new foci for TELE 3110 (Writing for the Electronic Media), incorporating documentary, short film, feature length film, and web pages into the course basics. • Developed specialized foci for JOUR 5580/7580 (Magazine Article Writing), for the study abroad experience with a concentration on critical travel journalism and the personality profile. • Developed specialized foci for JOUR 5590/7590 (Critical Writing and Reviewing), concentrating on motion picture criticism and reviewing during a study abroad experience that included a week at the Cannes Film Festival. RESEARCH AREAS: Writing for the screen; qualitative methodology; critical tourism; interpretive theory; autoethnography; cultural studies; celebrity; motion pictures; film festivals; theory/practice binary. PUBLICATIONS (* denotes refereed publications) Books: *Kohn, N. (June 2006). Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, Dread. Alta Mira Press, a Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Chapters in Books: *Laden, S. & Kohn, N. (May 2007). “Introduction Part 1: Representing Representation” in Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans. (Ed.: Keyan Tomaselli). Alta Mira Press. *Kohn, N. & Slowikowski, S (1998). “(Un)toward joy: Movement, sport and (the meaning of) life” in Play and Culture Studies: Volume One, (Eds., Margaret Carlisle Duncan, Garry Chick, Alan Aycock). Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing. 275-287. *Kohn, N. & Slowikowski, S. (1998). “‘How do you warm up for a stretch class?’: Sub/in/di/verting hegemonic shoves toward sport” in Sport and Postmodern times (Eds., Genevieve Rail & Jean Harvey). New York: SUNY Press. 1998. 21-32. 4 Journal Articles: *Kohn, N. (under review). “Mendacious Grace Notes.” Qualitative Inquiry. *Kohn, N. (2013). “Improvised Educational Devices.” Qualitative Inquiry, 1077800413489273, first published on June 25, 2013. *Kohn, N. & Sydnor, S. (November 2006). “"Lovely": Dialoging With Norman K. Denzin.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues. 30.4: 374-381 *Kohn, N. & Cain, R. (June 2005). “Baring Withness: Community, Performance, and theUncommon In and Around the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois.” Qualitative Inquiry. 11.3: 351-368. *Laden, S. & Kohn, N. (2004).“Introduction Part 1: Representing Representation.” Current Writing: Text and Representation in Southern Africa (Special Issue) 15: 1-20. *Kohn, N. & Lee, Y.S. (January 2004) “Musikonceit: A Postmodern Bravura Sans Footnotes.” Cultural Studies<==>Critical Methodologies. 4.1: 112-127. *Kohn, N. & Eidsvik, C. (November 2003). “Defective Effects in “The Matrix.”” Journal of Mass Media Ethics. 18.3/4. * Kohn, N. (Summer 2002). “Compounding Fracture.” Improvisation: Perforations 25, an electronic journal. http://www.pd.org/~zeug/perf25/ * Kohn, N. & Love, L. (2001). “This, that, and the other: Fraught possibilities of the souvenir.” Text and Performance Quarterly. 21.1: 1-17. * Kohn, N. & Lee, Y.S. (2001). “Faces/off: Challenges to post colonial theory along the Hollywood-Hong Kohn axis.” Cultural Studies<==>Critical Methodologies, 1.3: 335-354. * Kohn, N. (2000). “The screenplay as postmodern literary exemplar: Authorial distraction,