Profiles

Get to know some of our College of Media students! Francesca Dumitrescu is a Class of 2025 media and cinema studies major. What made you want to major in media and cinema studies? What's your favorite thing about the major? Coming from a STEM high school, I realized STEM was not particularly my… Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media faculty. Josh Heuman is a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies and the Department of Journalism. He received the 2022 College of Media Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Specialized Faculty Member. … Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media alumni. Steven Pratten (BS ’15, media and cinema studies) is a senior digital media manager at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Pratten also participated in a Media Career Night alumni panel on "Digital… Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media students! Andrew Stover is a Class of 2023 media and cinema studies major. What made you want to major in media and cinema studies?   Since 2016 I have been very interested in the criticism of film and of the media. This has led me down a path of writing… Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media students! Zeke Allis is a Class of 2023 media and cinema studies major.  Where do you hope your career goes after graduating from UIUC? The end goal is to get into film production. I have been interested in films as a child and have also been interested in… Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media students! Brynne Spears is a Class of 2022 (Winter) media and cinema studies major. What excited you about majoring in media and cinema studies here at Illinois? I was originally a communications major, but I realized that I was really interested in film so… Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media students! Robyn Pease is a Class of 2023 media and cinema studies major.  What excited you about majoring in media and cinema studies here at Illinois? What excited me most is that there are a lot of promising resources here. There is a lot of involvement… Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media students! Grace Johnson is a Class of 2022 media and cinema studies major. She is also a past Ebert Fellow. What excited you about majoring in media and cinema studies here at Illinois? In high school, I found myself being passionate about representing… Read More

Get to know some of our College of Media students! Maggie Morris is a Class of 2023 media and cinema studies major. What excited you about majoring in media and cinema studies at Illinois? I came for a campus visit when I was in high school. Since I was the only student from my high school looking… Read More

Vincent Jurgens (BS  '86, Media and Cinema Studies)  Photographer, Videographer, Webmaster What is one of your favorite memories as a student in media and cinema studies? (It could be a memorable class, professor, event, etc.) Being the first student in the new Media Studies program, rescuing me… Read More