| Name | Degree | Institution | Current position |
| Sophia Siddique Harvey | PhD, 2008 | Vassar College | Assistant Professor, Center for Drama & Film |
| Daniel Herbert | PhD, 2008 | University of Michigan | Assistant Professor, Screen Arts & Cultures |
| Aboubakar Sanogo | PhD, 2008 | Carleton University | Assistant Professor, Film Studies |
| Michelle Torre | PhD, 2008 | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Jenny Clark | PhD, 2008 | Fordham University | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Karen Beavers | PhD, 2008 | Dartmouth College | Visiting Adjunct Professor |
| Mina Shin | PhD, 2008 | Michigan State University | Visiting Assistant Professor, Film Studies |
| Paul Reinsch | PhD, 2008 | Occidental College and Loyola Marymount University | Adjunct Instructor |
| Alison DeFren | PhD, 2008 | Connecticut College | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology |
| Scott Ruston | PhD, 2008 | UCLA | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Digital Humanities |
| HyeRyoung Ok | PhD, 2008 | University of California Humanities Research Institute | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Jaime Nasser | PhD, 2008 | USC | Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| Dong Hoon Kim | PhD, 2008 | USC | Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| Heather Osborne-Thompson | PhD | CSU Fullerton | Assistant Professor, Radio-TV-Film |
| Karen Bowdre | PhD, 2006 | Indiana University | Assistant Professor, Communication and Culture |
| Priscilla Ovalle | PhD, 2006 | University of Oregon | Acting Assistant Professor, English |
| Steve Anderson | PhD, 2001 | USC | Assistant Prof, Interactive Media |
| Eric Gordon | PhD, 2003 | Emerson College | Assistant Prof, Visual and Media Arts |
| Richard Edwards | PhD, 2002 | IUPUI | Assistant Prof, New Media |
| Sohail Daulatzai | PhD, 2005 | UC Irvine | Assistant Prof, African-American Studies & Film Studies |
| Lucia Saks | PhD, 2001 | Michigan | Assistant Prof, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures |
| Ethan Thompson | PhD, 2005 | Texas A&M-Corpus Christi | Assistant Prof, Communication |
| Dan Leopard | PhD, 2005 | St. Mary's College of California | Assistant Prof, Communication |
| Broderick Fox | PhD, 2005 | Occidental College | Professor, Film and Media |
| Holly Willis | PhD, 2005 | USC | Associate Director, Interactive Media Laboratory; Research Assistant Professor |
| Christie Milliken | PhD, 2004 | Brock University | Assistant Prof, Communication, Popular Culture, and Film |
| Sarah Nilsen | PhD, 2000 | University of Vermont | Assistant Prof, Film Studies |
| Sophia Siddique Harvey | PhD, 2001 | Independent Scholar | Visiting Assistant Prof, UCLA International Institute |
| Luisa Rivi | PhD, 1999 | Independent Scholar | Italy |
| Victoria Johnson | PhD, 2003 | UC Irvine | Assistant Prof, Film Studies & Visual Studies & African-American Studies |
| Sarah Matheson | PhD, 2003 | Brock University | Assistant Prof, Communication, Popular Culture, and Film |
| Cristina Venegas | PhD, 2000 | UC Santa Barbara | Assistant Prof, Film and Media Studies |
| Angelo Restivo | PhD, 1997 | Georgia State | Assistant Prof and Director, Moving Image Studies |
| James Tobias | PhD, 2001 | UC Riverside | Assistant Prof, English |
| Sue Scheibler | PhD, 2001 | Loyola Marymount University | Assistant Prof, School of Film and Television |
| Alison Trope | PhD, 1999 | USC | Clinical Assistant Prof, Annerberg School for Communication |
| Bhaskar Sarkar | PhD, 2001 | UC Santa Barbara | Associate Prof, Film and Media Studies |
| Richard Cante | PhD, 2000 | University of North Carolina | Assistant Prof, Media and Cultural Studies |
| Sean Griffin | PhD, 2000 | Southern Methodist University | Assistant Prof, Cinema-Television |
| Christine Acham | PhD, 1999 | University of California, Davis | Associate Prof, African-American and African Studies, Film Studies |
| Harry Benshoff | PhD, 1996 | University of North Texas | Associate Prof, Radio, Television, Film |
| Cynthia Baron | PhD, 1999 | Bowling Green State University | Associate Prof, Theater and Film |
| Eric Freedman | PhD, 1998 | Florida Atlantic University | Associate Prof and Director, Multimedia Studies |
| Abe Mark Nornes | PhD, 1996 | Michigan | Associate Prof, Screen Arts and Cultures & Asian Languages and Cultures |
| Anna Everett | PhD, 1996 | UC Santa Barbara | Professor and Chair, Film and Media Studies |
| Mary Celeste Kearney | PhD, 1998 | University of Texas-Austin | Associate Prof, Radio-Television-Film |
| Ellen Strain | PhD, 1996 | Georgia Tech University | Assistant Prof, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture |
| Mary Desjardins | PhD | Dartmouth | Associate Prof and Chair, Film and Media Studies |
| Mark Williams | PhD | Dartmouth | Associate Prof, Film and Media Studies |
| David Desser | PhD | UIUC | Professor, Cinema Studies and Comparative Literature |
| Gaylyn Studlar | PhD | Michigan | Rudolph Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies |
| Mark Wolf | PhD, 1995 | Concordia University Wisconsin | Professor, Communication |
| Harvey Deneroff | PhD, 1985 | Savannah College of Art and Design | Professor, Animation |