Communications Faculty
Department Chairwoman
Lynne Jackson, Professor
Education
BA, University of Florida
BA, University of Alabama in Birmingham
MA & Ph.D., New York University
Lynne Jackson has worked as a News Producer for the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, as Assistant Editor for Cineaste magazine and co-edited a Wide Angle issue on filmmaker George Stoney. She wrote her dissertation on documentary filmmaker James Blue. She has published in journals such a Film History, Journalism History, Cineaste, and Wide Angle. The hour long documentary "Race or Reason: The Bellport Dilemma," which she co-produced and edited was screened at the 2002 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at the American Museum on Natural History in NYC and is distributed by Filmmakers' Library.
Education
BA, Colgate University
MA & Ph.D., Rutgers University
Dr. Richard Berleth has worked widely in print media companies, advertising, and marketing. He has held positions in marketing management for Time Inc., McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, Dun & Bradstreet and directed his own small advertising firm. Dr. Berleth's specialty is direct response selling. He is also the author of a best selling childrens book,
Samuels Choice, and a best selling adult popular history,
The Twilight Lords. He has just completed a history book called "The Bloody Mohawk: War and Survival 1718 - 1794" soon to be published. Dr. Berleth is the author of many scholarly articles and several popular magazine pieces. Dr. Berleth came to St. Francis College in 1986, where he helped design the advertising and public relations track of the communications department.
Timothy Dugan, Assistant Professor
Dr. Dugan has worked in experimental theater venues in New York City for over twenty-five years. These venues include Ensemble Studio Theater, The Irish Arts Centre, Circle Rep Lab, Primary Stages, and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Dr. Dugan continues to produce and direct projects at the St. Francis College Academic Theater where his most recent productions include Jean Cocteau's Orpheus; Ahab: A Reading (Melville); and A Tempest by Aime Cesaire. Course work includes Writing For Performance; Theater Production Workshop; Directing; Oral Interpretation; Fundamentals of Speech, and various communications theory courses. Dr. Dugan also team-teaches the dramatic literature and theater history curriculum with the St. Francis College English Department. Committee work includes Student Activities, Faculty Interest, and the chairmanship of the Faculty Athletic Policy Committee. Dr. Dugan also produces the annual college-wide Delaney Speech Contest. Recent publications include book reviews for America Magazine, and The Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Degrees: D. Litt., Drew University (2007); M.F.A. Playwriting, Carnegie-Mellon University (1976); B.A. Communications and Theater, Temple University (1974).
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Scott Weiss, Assistant Professor
Education
BA, Bennington College
MA, Brandeis University
Ph.D., Brandeis University
David Gewirtz, Special Lecturer
Education
BA, State University of New York – College of Cortland
MA, New School for Social Research
Professor Gewirtz has taught at St. Francis
College for the past ten years. He has also
taught at Kingsborough Community College, DeVry Institute of Technology and
LaGuardia Community College. Professor
Gewirtz was instrumental in the development of the college’s new state of the
art high-definition television studio, which is one of the first in the nation.
His mentors included Dr. Robert J. Thompson – founding director of the Bleier
Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University and Dr. Paul
Levinson Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Fordham University. Professor Gewirtz has co-produced and directed
both motion pictures and television shows. He also owns a small production company. Professor Gewirtz is pursuing a Ph.D. at the New School for Social Research in the Sociology of the Media.
Steven DiJoseph, Adjunct Professor
Education
BA, New York University
JD, Brooklyn Law School
President of Creative Communications Corporation, a New York-based provider of highly specialized writing services as well as consultation in operational problem-solving, communications, management, and marketing. Author of over 1,800 articles, four books, copy for numerous brochures and websites in addition to ghostwriting and editing numerous articles and other publications. Co-founder, original domain owner, principal writer and Editor-in-Chief for the daily online news service, Newsinferno.com (2005-2006). Specialist in business, legal, technical, scientific, copy and news writing as well as writing for Internet. Responsible for the creation of advertising campaigns for new and existing businesses including all promotional materials and brochures. Lecturer on writing and research techniques to college and law students who has lectured at several colleges, universities, and law schools, and for various professional organizations, on business legal, and communications subjects.
Nick Efteriades, Adjunct Professor
Andrew P. Ferullo, Adjunct Professor
Kathryn Grant, Adjunct Professor
Richard Helfer, Adjunct Professor
Nancy Kelly, Adjunct Professor
Matthew Melucci, Adjunct Professor
Brother Joseph Moloney, Adjunct Professor
Kerry Ruff, Adjunct Professor
Patricia Paez Sisson, Adjunct Professor
James Turner, Adjunct Professor
Leslie Wright, Adjunct Professor
Natasha Yannacanedo, Adjunct Professor
Education
BA, University of California at Santa Cruz
MA, American Conservatory Theater
Natasha’s work spans independent film, radio, primetime television, and numerous plays. She is grateful to have played Lisa in the West Coast premiere of Girl Gone by Mac Wellman. She appeared as Carmen in CBS’s The Education of Max Bickford with Marcia Gay Harden. Natasha played a lead role in the film 107 Street that had its world premiere at the New York International Latino Film Festival. She is a company member of Judith Shakespeare Company, Alethea Adsitt & Company, and First Look Theatre Company. Natasha won an HOLA award for Best Ensemble Performance in Fireflies at Thalia Spanish Theatre. She has directed several shows and is a reviewer for nytheatre.com and theatreiseasy.com. Natasha is passionate about the craft of acting and public speaking. You can see her latest work in the rough edit of the short film
Mordere. She also runs her own organization,
The N.Y. Acting Company.
Edward Setrakian, Professor Emeritus
Education
BA & BS, Concord College (WV)
Ph.D., New York University
Professor Setrakian has extensive professional experience in the performing arts having acted on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional Theatres and in film and television, most recently in the major motion picture Zodiac. He is also an accomplished director of Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions. Professor Setrakian is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, The American Federation of Television and Radio, Artists, Actors Equity, and a life member of the internationally famous Actors Studio, where he has directed several major productions and moderated the directors unit. He is also the author of three plays that have received professional productions in the New York Theatre.