Full Time Faculty and Staff

Departmental Chair: Associate Professor Cindy Wong

Administrative Staff (link to below)

Professor Mirella Affron
Center for the Arts (1P) 230

Assistant Professor Cynthia Chris
Center for the Arts (1P) room 224F
Telephone: (718) 982-2557
Chris (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Jeanine Corbet, HEO
Center for the Arts (1P) room 122
Telephone: (718) 982-2542
Corbet (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Associate Professor David Gerstner
Center for the Arts (1P) room 232A
Telephone: (718) 982-2546
Gerstner (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor Michael Mandiberg
Center for the Arts (1P) room 224F
Telephone: (718) 982-2555
Mandiberg (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Associate Professor Edward D. Miller
Center for the Arts (1P) room 226A
Telephone: (718) 982-2474
EMiller (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Professor Sherry Millner
Center for the Arts (1P) room 224E
Telephone: (718) 982-2536
MillnerShe (at) aol.com

Substitute Instructor Nina O'Brien
Center for the Arts (1P) room 232-B
obrien (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Associate Professor Jason Simon
Center for the Arts (1P) room 104
Telephone: (718) 982-2517
JSimon (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor Matthew Solomon
Center for the Arts (1P) room 229
Telephone: (718) 982-2548
Solomon (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Associate Professor Valerie Tevere
Center for the Arts (1P) room 231B
Telephone: (718) 982-2579
Tevere (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Associate Professor Cindy Wong
Center for the Arts (1P) room 232B
Telephone: (718) 982-2615
Wong (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Associate Professor Ying Zhu
Center for the Arts (1P) room 225
Telephone: (718) 982-2535
Zhu (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Staff

Janet Manfredonia
Administrative Assistant
Center for the Arts (1P) room 226
Telephone: (718) 982-2541
Manfredonia (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Rosemary Neuner-Fabiano
College Assistant
Center for the Arts (1P) room 226
Telephone: (718) 982-2543
Neunr-fabiano (at) mail.csi.cuny.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Randi Cecchine

Randi Cecchine is a media artist and educator teaching video production and media studies at CSI. Her creative work celebrates individual voice and expression, focusing on the connections between personal experience and cultural development. Her video Scrambled; a Journey Through Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a humorous and personal health education video. Her teaching style is highly participatory and aims to empower her students with self awareness, listening skills, academic discipline and creative confidence.

Brian Cogan

M.A. and Ph.D. New York University, Media Ecology Department.

Brian Cogan has been an adjunct at the College of Staten Island since 1998. He is the author of The Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture (Greenwood Press 2006),and is currently co-editing Oh, My God, They Deconstructed South Park! Those Bastards! (Lexington Press 2008) and Mosh the Polls: Youth Voters and Popular Culture (Lexington Press 2008). His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Radical Studies, Journal of Popular Culture and Popular Music and Society.

Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert received a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and MFA at UC Davis in 2006. He founded the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004. His projects and art works have won awards from the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek Magazine. Steve is currently a fellow at Eyebeam's Open R&D Lab in New York.

Tara Mateik

Brian O'Connell

Amresh Kumar Sinha

1996 - ABD. Department of Cinema Studies, New York University
1988 - 1995 Ph.D., York University , Programme in Social and Political Thought
1986 - 1988 M.A., SUNY Buffalo , Media Study (Humanities)