Faculty
Arts and Humanities

Stefan Hall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies

Contact
Phone: 419-783-2423
Email: shall@defiance.edu
Office: 8 Dana Hall
Faculty Website: http://ah.faculty.defiance.edu/Scholars/Hall/Hall.html

Education

• Bowling Green State University, PhD , American Culture Studies
• Virginia Tech, MA English
• Virginia Tech, BA English

Courses Taught

• CA 111 - Fundamentals of Oral Communications
• CA 123 - Media Writing
• CA 130 - Introduction to Film
• CA 135 - Introduction to Media
• CA 295 - Animation History
• CA 324 - Persuasion
• CA 330 - Audio & Video Production
• CA 336 - Mass Media Theory
• CA 345 - Media/Cultural Criticism
• CA 440 - Organizational Communication
• CA 442 - Media, Race, & Gender
• CA 495 - Film Director: Tim Burton
• CA 499 - Seminar/Capstone

Bio
Although his parents are originally from eastern Ohio, Professor Hall grew up in Virginia where his father was employed by the US Federal Government. Professor Hall has been teaching for 13 years, with most of those years at the university/college level, aside from a few forays into high school and teaching English in Japan. Professor Hall's research and scholarly interests include film and digital media (including video games), particularly looking at the various aspects of converging media. His dissertation - "'You've Seen the Movie, Now Play the Game': Recording the Cinematic in Digital Media and Virtual Culture" - looks at how digital media has established and affected the relationship between film and video games in terms of 1) economics, 2) aesthetics, and 3) narrative.

In addition to movies and video games, Professor Hall also writes about comic books, animation, and science fiction.

Organizations

• International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• University Film and Video Association
• Science Fiction Research Association
• Central States Communication Association

Awards

• 2005 Alma Payne Summer Dissertation Scholarship, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
  
  
• 2003 Charles E. Shanklin Award for Research Excellence, Division of Arts and Humanities, Bowling Green State University
  
  
• 2003 J. Snook Paper Award, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
  
  
• 1998 Caroline Pace Chermside Award for the Best Thesis, Department of English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Presentations

• "The Legacy of TRON". The 31st Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2010
  
  
• "Waiting for Hitchcock," Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, Detroit, Michigan, October 2009
  
  
• "Time Enough to Play: The Intersection of Video Game Mechanics and Narrative," The 30th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2009
  
  
• "'You're watching WHAT in that class?!?' - Negotiating Introduction to Film in the 21st Century" for the "Introduction to Film: Which Films and Why?" session, Midwest Modern Language Association 49th Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH, November 2007
  
  
• "'Make Way for the Bad Guy': Media Mobsters Invade Grand Theft Auto: Vice City", The 2007 Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA, April 2007
  
  
• "That Screaming in My Skull: Female Al Constructs & Male Protagonists in SF First Person Shooters" The 28th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 2007