An assignment that Alexandra Maxwell ’25 completed for her Directing Fiction class last fall did more than earn her an A—it’s making waves on the international film festival circuit and snapped up two awards this month.
We’ve got one more reason to be #MMCProud of Annaleigh Ashford ’05. The Tony-award-winning actress, who most recently starred in Broadway’s Sweeney Todd and the Hulu series Welcome to Chippendales, was featured on Crain’s annual 40 Under 40 list in November.
How is climate change reshaping New York City’s geography? A new interactive sculpture created by Sarah Nelson Wright, an associate professor of communication and media arts, and her longtime collaborator Edrex Fontanilla, a communications professor at St. John’s University, offers a startling look at the impacts of rising sea levels, storm surges, and massive human development on four endangered Staten Island coastlines.
Alexandra Maxwell Accepted into the Gotham EDU Summer Program
June 2, 2022
Congratulations to Alexandra Maxwell, a Film and Media Production major. Alexandra was accepted into the Gotham EDU summer program and will spend the summer refining her media production skills in a lively, creative environment. We congratulate Alexandra on this amazing opportunity.
Please join the Department of Communication and Media Arts for the Fall 2021 Digital Journalism Speaker Series! Featuring virtual lectures and conversations from prominent NYC digital journalism professionals, this series is a must-attend for MMC students interested in working within the news industry.
Professor of Communication and Media Arts Corey Liberman, Ph.D., alongside co-editor Jason S. Wrench from SUNY New Paltz, recently published his seventh book Casing Nonverbal Communication. Providing 25 case studies that illustrate why and how nonverbal communication is so predictive of both communication effectiveness, yet also communicative obstacles, the book explores how nonverbal communication can become more effective and predictive of positively-valenced outcomes.
Professor of Communication Arts Laura Tropp, Ph.D., and Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Sue Behrens, Ph.D., recently published an article in the latest volume of ETC: A Review of General Semantics.
Emily Blumen, a 2010 Communication Arts graduate, has opened a new boutique shop called Blue Urbane which focuses on eco-friendly clothing, handmade jewelry, and accessories for women.
Marymount Manhattan College is proud to share two recent accomplishments of Saniya Lee Ghanoui ’07, Ph.D., an alumna of MMC’s Communication Arts program and former adjunct professor in the Department of Communication and Media Arts. Dr. Ghanoui recently completed her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focusing on the history of twentieth-century sex education in the U.S. and Sweden. Shortly afterward, Dr. Ghanoui was appointed as Program Director for Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS) Today in the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University.
Marymount Manhattan College is excited to announce the Fifth Floor Film Festival, a showcase of film projects from students in the Communications major. Premiering on May 22 at 5 p.m. on Youtube and at mmcfilmfestival.com, the event promises to be a fun and exciting way to support students after their year-long creative endeavors.
Rosenthal ’18, a graduate of both Communication and Media Arts and Directing, will soon head to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology (LDIT) at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
MMC alumna Jess Agi ’10, who graduated with a BA in Communication Arts, has recently become the Executive Director of the Children’s Campaign Fund. Now in a leadership role of the Washington State-based nonpartisan PAC, Agi orchestrates the strategic plan for the organization, working with endorsed candidates to pass bills and legislature that address the issues faced by developing youths.
Associate Professor Corey Jay Liberman, Ph.D., along with Kenneth A Lachlan, Patric Spence, and Theodor Avtgis has written a new book, Risk & Crisis Communication: Communicating in a Disruptive Age.
Taylor Rhodes, a senior producer for Good Morning America, did a workshop on what goes into producing a live, national morning show. She talked about the behind the scenes details as well as her career which started in the tape room as an entry level employee to rise to Senior Producer.
TV and Film Festival Programmer Visits Capstone Classes
December 8, 2020
Opal Bennet, a TV and Film Festival Programmer (POV, DocNYC, Nantucket, March on Washington festivals) visited Professors Dan Hunt and Erin Greenwell’s COMM 403: Capstone Project 1: Research & Development classes and discussed film festival strategies for emerging filmmakers. She also lead a discussion about jobs in the film festival circuit and short film distribution.
Please join us online December 7—11 for the College’s arts and social justice festival, Stand Up Speak Out, to raise awareness and support for the Bedford Hills College Program and Bedford Hills College Club.
Professor Dan Hunt’s short film about aging in the gay community, Perfectly Frank, screened at DocNYC. It also won both the Jury and Audience Awards at Out at the Movies International Film Festival, as well as an Audience Award at Chicago Reeling Film Festival. “It truly was an MMC undertaking. Prof Erin Greenwell edited the film. Alum Christina Remley did color and grading. Alum Alec Martin was a Director of Photography and Katherine Brooke did Field Audio on location in Florida. It was fantastic and a thrill to work with so many people connected to MMC to bring this poignant story to a film festival audience.” The film has screened in Norway, Scotland, Australia and in dozens of festivals around the USA.
On November 4, award-winning filmmaker Yoruba Richen joined Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, Dan Hunt, MFA, to direct a virtual storytelling workshop for students in the COMM 112: Storytelling Across Media course.
The Doorstep, hosted by MMC’s Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, Tatiana Serafin, alongside Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev, is an international news podcast that invites listeners to challenge currents ways of thinking and to embrace a global perspective.
Joy, a short film written and directed by recent graduate Emilee Wermenchuk ’20, will be shown in the Online New England Film Festival from Tuesday, September 8 until Wednesday, October 14.
Communication Arts graduate Victoria Bachan ’13, who has led a successful career in talent management within digital entertainment, is set to become the head of Talent Division of Whalar, an influencer marketing agency based in New York City.
Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media major Ebro Marrero’s film, American Pulp, has been accepted into the 2020 Dominican Film Festival. Written and directed earlier this year for an independent study with Professor of Communications Arts Laura Tropp, Ph.D., American Pulp examines the decisions a man is faced with when he encounters a potential school shooter.
Woodhouse ’21, a double major in Digital Journalism and Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media, is completing a virtual internship with Bloomberg News, working on the company’s U.S government team with specific focus on congressional news.
Produced by Dan Hunt, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, and award-winning filmmaker Joy E. Reed, Little Miss Westie follows the lives of two transgender siblings, Luca and Ren, as they navigate through a challenging social environment. The documentary will make its national premiere in tandem with Pride Month on June 16, 2020 at 8:00 pm as a part of America ReFramed on the PBS WORLD Channel.
As the end of the Spring 2020 semester rapidly approaches, our students have been busy with a wide variety of final presentations, projects, and productions, which have kept the College’s virtual campus abuzz. Across each academic department, the end of the semester highlights the very best in student achievement at MMC.
Tatiana Serafin, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, hosted a discussion with Nick Gvosdev, Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Maya Georgi ’20, a graduating senior in the English and World Literatures program with minors in Digital Journalism and Law and Ethics, discusses her quarantine experiences with complex family dynamics in a stunning piece, What It’s Like To Quarantine With My Old-School Abuela.
Associate Professor of Communication and Media Arts, Corey J. Liberman, Ph.D., has been awarded a 2020 Teaching Fellowship through the Eastern Communication Association, a professional organization of scholars, teachers, and students of Communication Studies.
MMC Alum (Digital Journalism and CTEM, 2019) and Buzzfeed Junior Staff Writer, Lauren Garafano, zoomed into Professor Serafin’s COMM 328 Digital Journal of Ideas and Culture.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, prisons remain closed to visitors, and although MMC’s Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP) at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Taconic College Program (TCP) at Taconic Correctional Facility have managed to maintain modified academic operations despite severe restrictions on prison access, students enrolled in these programs no longer have face-to-face contact with their instructors.
Reed, who co-directed the documentary film Little Miss Westie with MMC’s Dan Hunt, MFA, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Arts, led students through a virtual workshop on assistant editing as part of this spring’s COMM 405: Production and Distribution courses.
Sound Designer David Briggs leads workshop for Media Production Students
April 14, 2020
Briggs’ workshop for our COMM 405: Production and Distrubution students focused on the power of sound in film. He also discussed career options in the industry.
Each spring, Marymount Manhattan College’s Honors Day Colloquium showcases top research from across the disciplines and hosts induction ceremonies for campus and academic-based Honor Societies, as well as the Barry Commoner Lecture on the Environment.
Students in Digital Journal of Ideas and Culture with Tatiana Serafin, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, toured Rolling Stone magazine’s New York City headquarters on 5th Avenue and spoke with Gus Wenner, President and Chief Operating Officer of Wenner Media, who oversees the publishing of Rolling Stone.
The film, which follows the lives of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, school, dating, and family in the Trump era, was acquired by the PBS series America Reframed and will be broadcast in June.
Goulart, who earned a degree in Communication Arts in 2012, is an Associate Director of Media Strategy at Giant Spoon, a full service advertising agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles.
The sixth installment of MMC’s eminent Stand Up Speak Out festival concluded with a public screening of the event’s film, poetry, and live monologue pieces, now available to stream online.
Students enrolled in Public Affairs and Political Reporting (COMM 311) with Professor Tatiana Serafin, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, went to News Corp’s midtown headquarters to tour The Wall Street Journal newsroom and speak with reporters and editors.
Communication Arts graduate Victoria Bachan ’13 has been included in the coveted ‘Dealmakers List 2019’ from Variety Magazine for her work with Authentic Talent and Literary Management. Since Authentic establishment their digital department in 2017, the team has generated has generated approximately $25 million in revenue.
The new chapter will serve as a student meetup group for changemakers in journalism and the on-campus outpost of the Online News Association, the world’s largest association of digital journalists.
On Friday, November 15, Jenny Dixon, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Communication and Media Arts, presented US Presidential Debates 1948-2016: An Issue of Formality and Respect in the Top Paper panel in the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
Students in Public Affairs and Political Reporting with Tatiana Serafin, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts and Coordinator of Journalism at MMC, canvassed parade-goers at New York City’s 100th annual Veterans Day Parade to find out what veterans and families are thinking ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
On Tuesday, October 23 Dan Hunt, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, brought his fall Storytelling Across Media class on a field trip to Good Morning America (GMA).
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, Tatiana Serafin, MFA, discusses Gen Z, climate change activism, and foreign policy on the latest episode of Global Ethics Weekly with Alex Woodson.
Students in Public Affairs and Political Reporting with Tatiana Serafin, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts and Coordinator of Journalism at MMC, visited the Upper East Side’s local precinct on 67th Street to learn how police officers cover and patrol the neighborhood.
On Monday, September 23, the Global Climate Summit convened as part of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and MMC CommArts students from Public Affairs and Political Reporting, taught by Tatiana Serafin, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, were at the forefront, covering protests and interviewing civic activists.
Corey J. Liberman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication and Media Arts, published Casing Communication Theory (Kendall Hunt, 2019), his latest book in collaboration with co-authors Andrew S. Rancer and Theodore A. Avtgis.
Marymount Manhattan College is pleased to announce the election of two new members to the Board of Trustees, which oversees the mission, fiscal integrity, and educational quality of the College. Marymount Manhattan is proud to welcome these new trustees, both of whom are alumnae of the College.
Many congratulations to Asma Rathod ’20, a Communication Arts major and Psychology minor, who will spend the fall 2019 semester at the American College of Thessaloniki, located in Greece’s second-largest city.
Laura Tropp, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Arts, received the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction for her recent book Grandparents in the Digital Age: The Third Act.
Can a single art project speed up an immigration visa process? Missing Moments, a stunning series by Art major Itzamary Dominguez ’19, just may have. A short documentary by Gabriel Richardson ’21, Dance major with Dance and Media concentration, showcases the inspiring story of a small collection of colored pencil drawings.
On Friday, May 17, 2019, Marymount Manhattan College graduated nearly 400 Bachelor degree recipients at its 70th Commencement Exercises, held this year at Lincoln Center’s iconic David Geffen Hall.
On Tuesday, May 14, Communication and Media Arts alumna Paige Gawley ’16 visited Prof. Tatiana Serafin’s Journalism in the 21st Century to talk about her journalism journey and her work as a Staff Writer at CBS’ Entertainment Tonight.
On Wednesday, May 15, students in Freelance Article Writing were in conversation via Zoom with the freelance writer and co-founder of literary arts nonprofit, The Seventh Wave, focusing on portfolio and career building.
Erin Greenwell, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, and Nava Silton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, were the recipients of the 2019 C-TIE Award for Innovative Teaching.
The MMC community is delighted to congratulate alumna Jeanette Donnarumma ’07, a double-major in Biology and Communication and Media Arts, on her 2019 Daytime Emmy Award!
Tseday Alehegn, Ed.D., Executive Director of Academic Operations, was the guest speaker in Tuesday’s Freelance Writing course, where she spoke with students about Tadias, her digital magazine.
On Wednesday, April 10, students in “Freelance Article Writing” visited Bloomberg headquarters on 59th street for a tour and mini lesson on financial markets as part of their coursework with Prof. Tatiana Serafin.
On Monday, April 8, Emmy-award winning producer and director of editorial, programming and operations for Verizon’s hyper-local FiOS1 News networks, Carolyn Purcell, led a workshop for Marymount Manhattan students and faculty on how to up their social media skills on Instagram and Facebook.
Professor Tatiana Serafin’s Spring 2019 “Freelance Article Writing” class spent their Wednesday, April 3 class down in Greenwich Village at the Huffington Post headquarters to experience a 21st century digital newsroom.
Laura Tropp, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Media Arts, joined the host of Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Morning Show on September 18 to explore “The Culture of Pregnancy.”
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, Erin Greenwell, and alumna Christina Remley ’17 were part of the postproduction team for Yomeddine, a film which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film festival and nominated for the Palme D’Or award.
Communication and Media Arts Professor Corey Liberman, Ph.D. received the Past President’s Award at the 109th Annual Eastern Communication Association (ECA) Convention held April 25-29, 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, Erin Greenwell, and alumna Christina Remley ’17 were part of the postproduction team for Yomeddine, a film having its world premiere at the Cannes Film festival and nominated for the Palme D’Or award.