
Joi Carr
Professor of English & Film
Film Program Director
Humanities/Teacher Education Division, Seaver College
CAC 112
Education
- PhD, English, Literature and Film Studies, Claremont Graduate University, 2005
Post-Doctoral Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Certificate, Claremont Graduate University, 2013
Post-Doctoral Studies, African Studies Certificate, Claremont Graduate University, 2012 - MA, Religion Interdisciplinary History, Pepperdine University, 2001
- MA, Interdisciplinary Studies (English, Theater, History), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1998
- BS, Bible and Ministry, Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, Texas, 1998, Summa Cum Laude
- BA, Liberal Arts, Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, Texas, 1996, Magna Cum Laude
Topics
- African American Studies: Literature and Film
- Arts-based critical pedagogy
- Christianity and Literature
- Film Studies: Women and Film
- John Singleton and Black Masculinity
- Music and Text: African American Literature
- Ralph Ellison
- Religion and the Arts
- Toni Morrison
Courses
- African American Cinema
- Film and Culture
- Film Studies Internship
- Intro to Film Studies
- Italian Cinema from Neorealism to Present
- Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Senior Thesis Projects in Film Studies
- Women and Film
- World Cinema
- American Literature after the Civil War
- English Composition
- Multicultural Women Writers
- Multicultural Literature and Theory
- Music and Text: African American Literature
- World Literature
- Theatre Ensemble: Multicultural Theatre Project
- Western Culture III (1815)