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Jennifer Machiorlatti

210 Sprau Tower (269) 387-3141   Education: Ph.D., Wayne State University Areas of Expertise: Media Production

Jennifer Machiorlatti, Ph.D., Associate Professor, teaches in the areas of media and cultural studies, video/media production and media writing, communication and social justice, and intercultural communication.  Dr. Machiorlatti, who joined the faculty in 2004, earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from Wayne State University and her M.A. in 1990 from Michigan State University.  Her research and media art/production interests include Documentary, Aboriginal/First Nation and Native media, Environment and Communication, and feminist influenced media.  Her research on women and film, aboriginal media and popular culture have appeared in The Michigan Academician, A Leadership Journal - Sharing the Vision, The Journal of Film and Video, The South Atlantic Review,  AfterImage and in collections: Ethnic Media in America (Kendall Hunt, 2004) and Framing the World: Ecocriticism and Film (University of Virginia, 2010). She is currently working on a book and documentary on Indigenous Women in Film and Video titled Matriarchal Voices: Native and First Nations Women in Film and Video.

Dr. Machiorlatti, who earned the WMU Emerging Scholar Award in 2009 began her media production career in the Detroit, MI market, working at the CBS and Fox affiliates, where she held positions in news, programming and the promotion department.   Her media career also includes working as a publicist for an automotive racing team, where she traveled the U.S. on the IMSA and SCCA circuits.  She is an independent media artist and specializes in women’s representations and community media.  She has screened or exhibited works at the Big Muddy Film and Video Festival, Bettina Russell International Women’s Film Festival, the Dallas Video Festival, St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, the Waterfront Film festival and on the web at lonelyplanet.com, and on docupyxx.com, an online screening space, and vagueterrain.net, an online journal. Recently Copyright and Creativity in the Digital Age (2009) wonsecond place in the documentary category at the East Lansing Film Festival.  She also served as the Senior Producer of the Kalamazoo Youth Media Project in 2008-9.  Two of the three student produced documentaries won Michigan Association of Broadcaster awards in 2009.  (see www.michmab.org)

Jennifer is a member of the University Film and Video Association. She gardens organically, harvests seeds and is a certified yoga instructor and ceremonialist.  Affiliated with the EarthWalk Center (Detroit, MI), she assists in women’s circle and initiation work and mentors teen girls through rites of passage.

Courses that Dr. Machiorlatti teaches at WMU

COM 2560 Electronic Media Operations
COM 3550 Introduction to Digital Video Production
COM 3590 Broadcast Journalism
COM 3410 Film Modes and Genres
COM 3430 American Film History
COM 4430 Media and Social Change
COM 4740 Intercultural Communication
COM 4570 Advanced Video Production
COM 6450 Mass Communication (graduate)