Leah Vonderheide
Assistant Professor, School of Film, Television, and Media Arts
Dr. Leah Vonderheide is a scholar of global film and media. Her teaching and research interests include Indigenous-made media, feminist film theory, and strategies of resistance across fiction, documentary, and experimental film.
Her current book project explores the critical role played by M?ori filmmaker Merata Mita in decolonizing the screen for Indigenous media artists across the globe, and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend in 2020. Her work has also been published in Studies in Documentary Film and Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies.
Dr. Vonderheide is co-director of the Screenwriters’ Lab Global Pathways program in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Courses
- Approaches in Media Studies
- Topics in Vis & Med Arts: Stud
- MFA Thesis Project
- Topics in Visual and Med Arts
- Media Histories
- Topics in Media Studies
- Topics in Visual and Media Arts: Studies
- Media Criticism and Theory
- Directed Study