Faculty Experts
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Sheila Bernard
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following: Documentary film; media; nonfiction media storytelling; archival filmmaking; historical filmmaking; independent filmmaking; screenwriting
Campus phone: (518) 442-5364
Campus email: sbernard@albany.edu
Rob Edelman
College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer
Department: History
Department: Art
Expert in the following: Baseball and film
Campus phone: (518) 442-4020
Campus email: redelman@albany.edu
Andi Lyons
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Theatre
Expert in the following: Theatrical design and technology; lighting design; women in theatre; technology; drafting for the theatre (hand and computer-aided); gay and lesbian issues in the theatre workplace.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4210
Campus email: andi@albany.edu
Olimpia Pelosi
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Expert in the following: Italian and comparative literature; women mystic writers of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque period; Italian theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque period.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4149
Campus email: opelosi@albany.edu
Lisa Thompson
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following: African American literature and culture studies; African American middle class; African American contemporary theater
Campus phone: (518) 442-4389
Campus email: lthompson@albany.edu
David Wills
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Department: Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following: French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4228
Campus email: dwills@albany.edu

