Paul Falzone Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communications

Dunton Hall 223
One Brennan Circle
Poultney, VT 05764-1199
Email Address: falzonep@greenmtn.edu
Website: http://www.paulfalzone.com
802-287-8280

Research Interests
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.

Education
Ph.D. in Communication, 2008
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

M.A. 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

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
Segment on Hip-Hop, Inc., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature (forthcoming).

Introduction to film section and segments on Robert Rauschenberg and George Segal, LGBTQ America Today (forthcoming).

Conference Presentations
"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)