Our Team
We talk about film and its relationship to society and culture from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.
Elizabeth Sharp
Elizabeth Sharp is the former Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences. Her research focuses on ideologies of gender and families. She recently engaged in a multi-year transdisciplinary research project, integrating social science data and live performance.
Human Development and Family Sciences
Dana weiser
Dana Weiser is Professor and Chair of Human Development and Family Sciences. Her work examines how family experiences shape young adults' later relationship experiences and sexual behaviors, with a particular focus on infidelity and sexual violence.
Human Development and Family Sciences
EnglishMichael Borshuk
Michael Borshuk is Professor of African American Literature. He is the author of Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature (2006) and the editor of Jazz and American Culture (2024). From 2018 to 2026, he was Director of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech.
Allison Whitney
EnglishAllison Whitney is a Professor Film and Media Studies. Her research interests include film and technology, intersectional feminist methodologies, sound studies, local film culture and oral history practices, and genre studies, including science fiction, horror, war, and melodrama. She publishes on film and media studies pedagogy, with a particular emphasis on community engagement.
Christy Rogers
Human Development and Family SciencesChristy Rogers is an Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences. Their work investigates how family relationships, such as siblings and parents, influence adolescent experiences, behavior, and well-being across time.
Classical and Modern Languages and LiteraturesDon Lavigne
Don Lavigne is an Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech. His research concerns gender and sexuality in ancient Greek and Roman poetry in general and, in particular, the way gender is used to construct poetic voices.
Jess Smith
EnglishJess Smith is an Associate Professor of Practice who teaches literature and creative writing. She is the author of Lady Smith (University of Akron Press, 2025). She received her MFA from The New School and is the recipient of support from The Sewanee Writers' Conference and The Vermont Studio Center.