Jan Roberts-Breslin

Jan Roberts-Breslin is an independent media artist whose work has been broadcast on PBS and has received national and international festival awards.

Roberts-Breslin has been at Emerson since 1990, and was the founding director of the MFA in Film and Media Art program. She served as a visiting scholar at Communication University of China in Beijing from 2014 to 2018. Roberts-Breslin was also the dean of graduate and professional studies, as well as the interim dean for the School of Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies. Additionally, she served as the interim provost from 2021 to 2024.

Roberts-Breslin is the author of Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production, the fifth edition of which was published in 2022 by Focal Press/Routledge. She was also the video director for the United Church of Christ in New York City and has taught at Temple and Seton Hall universities.

Roberts-Breslin holds an MFA in film and video production from Temple University and a BA in liberal studies and photography, film studies, and dance from the University of Delaware.