Steve Schoen, PhD

Associate Professor of Critical Media & Cultural Studies

Steve W. Schoen is an associate professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies and specializes in documentary production, theory and criticism, and media representations of gender and sexuality. Dr. Schoen teaches Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies, Digital Storytelling, Media, Gender and Sexualities, and Making Documentaries. His scholarly publications include "Making Sense Under a Midnight Sun: Transdisciplinary Art, Documentary Film, and Cultural Exchange" in the journal Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies and "Blackfish-ing for Buzz: The Rhetoric of the Real in Theme Parks and Documentary" in the Journal of Florida Studies. Dr. Schoen's most recent documentary, Groaning from the Soul (2016), documents the visit of Professor Carolyn Ellis and Holocaust survivor Jerry Rawicki to the Nazi death camp Treblinka where Rawicki's mother and sister died.

Education

BA, St. Meinrad College
MA, Aquinas Institute
MA, (Media Communications), Webster University
PhD, University of South Florida