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Kristina Bell teaches courses in human communication and mediated communication. Her professional interests are in interpersonal communication, video and sound editing, photo editing, photography, and other forms of mediated storytelling. Bell's background is in film editing and sound. She has 10 years experience in video and sound editing as well as production sound. Bell loves animals, pottery, local art and music, going to the movies, listening to NPR, and cooking vegan food.
Nahed Eltantawy’s research focuses on media representation, gender issues, the Middle East, globalization and critical and cultural studies. She has presented her work at communication conferences in North America and the Middle East. Eltantawy uses her research to inform her journalism classes. She is also interested in developing new courses that combine her research interests with her journalism background. One example would be a seminar on Media Representation of the Middle East. Eltantawy spends most of her free time with her husband and two sons. She also enjoys reading, cooking, traveling and the beach.
Dr. Fowkes specializes in the analysis of film and television texts, particularly mainstream fantasy, sci-fi, and comedy films. She has also worked as a screenwriter and script consultant. Her research on fantasy and supernatural films informs her teaching in a variety of classes from film history and film theory to screenwriting and special topics courses such as “Monsters, Ghosts and Angels in Popular Film.” She speaks French and loves animals, nature, travelling, reading, music, theatre, and …movies! Well duh.
James Goodman is new to HPU and teaches courses in media production. He is a former producer and director of TV commercials and has additional experience as a first assistant director, having worked on motion pictures appearing on cable networks such as USA, Lifetime and the Sci-Fi Channel. Jim’s key interests are in the realm of filmmaking and writing for the screen. He hopes to continue making faculty led narrative film projects at HPU that create significant experiential opportunities for students.
Bobby Hayes has been twice recognized for excellence in teaching, winning the 2001 Outstanding Faculty Member award for the Budd Campus in the university's Evening Degree Program, and winning the 2006 E. Vance Davis Service Award for outstanding teaching and commitment to the university's Evening Degree Program. Hayes has developed, designed and taught two new courses in the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication -- Feature Writing and Introduction to Sports Writing. In 2008, he began his second stint as faculty adviser to the Campus Chronicle, helping to transition the student newspaper to the digital age with a greater online presence and increased frequency of publication. Hayes began his career in journalism as a reporter for the Asheville Citizen-Times in Asheville, N.C. before moving to the Pensacola News Journal in Pensacola, Fla., where he worked as a sports columnist and reporter. His stories were carried nationally by the Gannett News Service and earned him an award from the Florida Sportswriters Association.
Dr. Judy Isaksen’s pedagogy and research are rooted in Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary methodology that explores the ways in which culture creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations, and systems of power. As such, she enjoys teaching a wide range of courses in communication, media theory and production, cultural studies and pop culture, visual rhetoric, women and gender studies, race studies, rhetorical theory and writing, hip-hop culture, and literature. Her research and publications have examined audio rhetoric, hip-hop theorists, Zora Neale Hurston, whiteness studies, Generation X, West African drumming, minorities on public radio, and racial discourse. The more pleasurable aspects of Dr. Isaksen's personal life that also feed into her teaching are writing, reading, yoga, painting and drawing, dancing, drumming, hiking and camping.
Brad Lambert is an animator, motion graphics designer and video editor who teaches courses in new media. He has worked on projects for clients including Food Network, PBS, the US Air Force, and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His filmmaking interests include children’s media and historical documentary. He recently completed an animated documentary on 19th century prizefighter John L. Sullivan.
John R. Luecke, APR, teaches courses in public relations, human communication and public speaking. He brings more than 30 years of experience as a PR professional and educator to the classroom. Luecke's research interests focus on the application of intercultural communication theories to the practice of public relations.
Jim Y. Trammell is interested in religion and media. He’s written on the portrayal of religion on The Simpsons, Conservative Christian film reviews, and how The Passion of the Christ was marketed to evangelical churches. Dr. Trammell also teaches media production classes at High Point University, and serves as the head of the Religion and Media Interest Group for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. In his spare time Dr. Trammell enjoys practicing his bass, reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, and collecting autographs from U.S. Congressmen and women
Wilfred Tremblay is the Director of the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication. His research and teaching areas are law, management and economics. He managed radio stations in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis and has published in The Journal of Radio Studies, among other titles. Dr. Tremblay also spent a sabbatical studying media development in Southeast Asia. A former professional musician, Tremblay is an avid jazz fan and spends way too much time watching NBA basketball.
Gerald is one of a new generation of games scholars invested in the humanistic inquiry of the cultural and communicative implications of video games and gaming. He is currently working to rethink dominant assumptions about the relationship between traditional modes of representation (narrative, visual, aural) and interactive processes, and to push forward critical/cultural studies approaches to new media analysis by exploring the intersection between rhetoric, ludology, and textual criticism. Gerald has published in the journal Games and Culture and has made numerous presentations for the National Communication Association. He is also co-chair of the Games Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. |
Prof. Kristina Bell
Dr. Nahed Eltantawy
Dr. Kate Fowkes
Prof. James Goodman
Dr. Bobby Hayes
Dr. Judy Isaksen
Prof. Brad Lambert 
Prof. John Luecke
Dr. Jim Trammell 
Dr. Wilfred Tremblay
Dr. Gerald Voorhees