Paul Falzone Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communications
Dunton Hall 223
One Brennan Circle
Poultney, VT 05764-1199
Email Address: falzonep@greenmtn.edu
Phone: 802-287-8280; Fax: 802-287-8080
Areas of Interest:
Communication and Social Change, New Media, Advocacy Media, Social Media, Media Convergence, Documentary and Cinema, Visual Communication and Visual Culture, Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methodologies.
Education
Ph.D. in Communication, 2008
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
A.M. in Communication, 2006
University of Pennsylvania
M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2000
Nova Southeastern University
B.A. in English, 1995
State University of New York at Albany
About Me
My research explores the manner in which cinema, documentary, visual art and other traditional and new media may be used to create social and political change. As a teacher, my goal is to empower my students to be active critics and producers of media, able to see past mere content and to explore the systems, tactics and motivations behind media artifacts. As a media ethnographer, I alternately produce and theorize media, using fieldwork to inform my scholarship and allowing scholarship to shape my field work. As a producer my first experience was cross community filmmaking with former political prisoners in North Ireland. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to work with many advocates and activists such as The Yes Men, Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films, and WITNESS.
Select Publications
Journal Articles
Falzone, P. (2008). Speaking (un)truth to power: Fishtales from the ethnographic front. Transforming Anthropology Vol. 16 (1)
Falzone, P. (2006). The final frontier is queer: Polysemic perversity, narrative edgeplay and audience generated folklore in K/S slashfiction. Western Folklore Vol. 64 (3/4)
Falzone, P. (2004). Transcendent ethnography: Designing an action research approach to ethnographic film within cultures of conflict. Action Research. Vol. 2(3)
Reference Articles
Encyclopedia of American Environmental Literature (forthcoming, Facts on File)
Entries on R. Buckminster Fuller, Jr. and "Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity"
Encyclopedia of Slavery and Freedom in American Literature (forthcoming, Facts on File)
Entry on "The Blind African Slave"
The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature (2008, Greenwood Press)
Entry on "Hip-Hop, Inc."
LGBTQ America Today (2008, Greenwood Press)
Introduction to film section and entries on Robert Rauschenberg and George Segal.
Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures
"The Researcher as Mediamaker, The Mediamaker as Activist: Tactics for the Postpositivist Hellraiser"
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry--Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; 5/09
Paper Presenter and Panel Chair
"Anthropology in the World"
Invited Lecture
Cornell University, Department of Anthropology; 2/09
"Prank Stars: The Media Hoax as (in)Civil Disobedience"
National Communication Association Conference—Chicago, Illinois; 11/07
"Rhetorics Within Rhetoric: An Holistic Analysis of Reagan’s Address to the Nation and Other Countries on U.S.-Soviet Relations" International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference—Paris, France; 7/07
"Outlaw Photojournalism: Technology and Transgression in the New Media Environment"
International Communication Association Conference—Dresden, Germany; 6/06
"Beyond the Fear Appeal: A Cognitive Functional Model of Art Production"
International Communication Association Conference—Dresden, Germany; 6/06
"Truth and Reconciliation, Activism and Celebrity: A Case Study of Media and Stakeholder Dynamics in the Sierra Leone Peace Process"
Re:Activism: Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media Environment Conference, Central European University—Budapest, Hungary; 10/05
"Paid Killers, Volunteer Martyrs: Media, Belief and the Nontraditional Death Energy of the Nation"
Media and Belief in an Interdependent World International Conference
American University of Paris—Paris, France; 3/05
"People, Persuasion and Protest: Methods for Augmenting Activist Art"
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities—Honolulu, Hawaii; 1/04
Teaching Experience
Green Mountain College, Assistant Professor of Communications, 2008-present
University of the Arts, Instructor for MFA Program (Structure and Metaphor, Independent Writing Project and Thesis Writing Project), 2007-2008
University of Pennsylvania, Instructor (Visual Communication), 2007
University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Assistant and Recitation Leader for Profs. Paul Messaris, Vincent Price, Katherine Sender, and Howard Blumenthal (2004-2007)