Elizabeth Daley was appointed dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts in May 1991. She is the inaugural holder of the Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Dean’s Chair. Daley was also the founding executive director of the USC Annenberg Center for Communication (1994-2005) and serves as the executive director of the IML, which she founded in 1998. In this capacity, she has written on the significance of visual literacy as a constitutive element of 21st century citizenship, and she has served as a strong and outspoken advocate for new forms of scholarly expression and technology-enhanced learning. Her full biography can be found here.

Holly Willis serves as the IML’s director of Academic Programs. Her current research centers on the intersection of media art, graphic design and rhetoric, and the ways ideas and formal strategies from each might inform contemporary media-rich scholarly practices. Willis oversees the IML’s research in the pedagogical uses of multiuser virtual environments such as Second Life and promotes the use of numerous online tools for scholarly production and research. Willis is also the editor of The New Ecology of Things, on design and pervasive computing, and author of New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image, which chronicles the advent of digital filmmaking tools and their impact on contemporary media practices.

Virginia Kuhn serves as the IML’s associate director. Her work centers on digital rhetoric: the ways in which the affordances of digital technologies impact thought, discourse and expression in a highly mediated world. Digitization, for instance, endows films with book-like qualities; as such, she argues, they require sustained attention as modes of communication.  Kuhn’s current efforts are particularly involved with the intersections of the humanities and cyberinfrastructure, particularly as they bear on the ethical implications of a global society and large-scale literacy.

Kuhn joined the IML in 2005 after successfully defending one of the first born-digital dissertations in the country, challenging archiving and copyright conventions. Her dissertation was created in TK3, an electronic book platform that is the precursor to the USC-based, open source program, Sophie. Most recently, she published a piece in Scalar, the new authoring platform developed by the Vectors team and the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, titled “Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate,” and published in the International Journal for Learning and Media.

Her work can be found in online journals such as Kairos, electronic book review, Enculturation and Academic Commons, as well as in print. Before joining USC, she taught in departments of Film, English, and Cultural Studies and she spent three years as a writing program administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Steve Anderson directs the PhD program in Media Arts & Practice and is an assistant professor of Interactive Media at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. His research focuses on digital media and culture and the impact of emerging technologies on learning. He is also the associate editor of Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, an online journal seeking to redefine scholarly research and publication in the digital age.

As a filmmaker, Bodie has written and directed several award-winning short films, including Sacramento – A Family Fable, which premiered at the 2010 AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.  For mtvU he co-wrote/co-directed the short musical How Do I Say This? I’m Gay! (2007), and directed an episode of the series Sucks Less with Kevin Smith (2006).  In 2009, he directed the eight-part documentary web series Sundance Directors Lab about the Sundance Institute’s prestigious workshops.  In 2003, he produced the low-budget feature film Totally Sexy Loser, written and directed by Jason Schafer (Trick).  Most recently, Bodie directed a hybrid film-theatre-dance performance entitled Love, Connie.

As content producer for the Sundance Institute, Bodie was integral to the inception and direction of their live-stream coverage of the 2010 and 2011 film festivals.  Previously at Sundance’s Feature Film and Theatre Programs, Bodie participated in the development of projects including the films Me and You and Everyone We Know, Paradise Now, and A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, and the plays Grey Gardens and Passing Strange.  In 2005, Bodie co-produced a staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play I Am My Own Wife, starring original cast member Jefferson Mays, in Krakow, Poland.

Bodie has taught digital video production, acting, directing, and improv at various schools and universities including USC, Cal Poly Pomona, and the International School of Brussels, Belgium.  He received his MFA in production and directing at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television, and his B.A. in dramatic arts at the University of California, Davis.

Vicki Callahan is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, where she teaches the courses IML 140: Workshop in Multimedia Authoring and IML 500: Digital Media Tools and Tactics. She is also an associate professor at UW-Milwaukee in the Department of Art and Design. She is the author of Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade (Wayne State UP, 2004) and editor for the collection, Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (Wayne State UP, 2010). With Lina Srivastava, she co-authors transmedia-activism.com, a resource site for using cross-media platforms to effect social change. Her interests in silent cinema, feminist theory, and digital media intersect around questions of emergent/disruptive technologies, new modes of writing, and alternative or counter narrative forms.