Tammy Kinsey, M.F.A.
Professor Tammy Kinsey received an MFA in Filmmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and B.A. in Journalism from Virginia Tech.
Tammy joined the Department of Theatre and Film in 1997. She teaches 16mm film and digital production courses such as Documentary Field Production, Directing for the Camera, and Optical Printing and Animation. Tammy also teaches courses in Experimental Film, Film Censorship, History of Video Art, Documentary, Cult Film and TV, Vampires in Popular Culture, and The YouTube Phenomenon.
Her research interests include visual language, experimental and documentary filmmaking, arts censorship, and representation in popular culture.
Tammy’s films have been screened in such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Anthology Film Archives in New York, the Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco, the Telluride Experimental Film Festival, London’s Exploding Cinema, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Her written work appears in Carnivàle and the American Grotesque: Critical Essays on the HBO Series, In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema, Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off with a Soul, The Moving Image, Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, PAJ, A Journal of Performance and Art, and afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Criticism.
