DAWN HALL

Women in Film
PhD: Middle Tennessee State University

Dr. Dawn Hall teaches film, English, popular culture studies and gender at WKU. She has published extensively on the challenges and opportunities of American independent women filmmakers, including her book, ReFocus: The films of Kelly Reichardt (Edinburgh UP).



MARLA ZUBEL

World Cinema
PhD: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Dr. Marla Zubel studies and teaches twentieth century literature and film in a global context. Her current research examines a neglected archive of Eastern European cultural encounters with the Third World. She is particularly interested in the ways writers and filmmakers of the former Socialist Bloc turned to documentary, and other non-fiction genres and forms, in order to represent the relationship between the local and the global at the height of the Cold War.



JESSICA FOLK

Screenwriting
MFA: Chapman University

Jess Folk primarily writes stories about queer women, identity, loss, and untold stories from history. Her screenplays have received various honors and awards at both national and international screenplay festivals and conferences, including the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival, the California Women’s Film Festival, the Richmond International Film Festival, the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition, the University Film & Video Association juried competition, and others.