Associate Professor of Communication; Filmmaking and Cinematic Arts
Department Chair
Curt Hersey teaches courses in the Filmmaking and Cinematic Arts concentration, which includes filmmaking, media criticism, scriptwriting and the economics of the contemporary media industry. He also teaches courses in American media history and contemporary media issues. He is the 2021 recipient of the Eleana M. Garrett Award for Meritorious Advising and Caring and the 2017 Vulcan Teaching Excellence Award. He was selected as a 2013 Faculty Fellow with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Prior to entering higher education, he was a television reporter and videographer with Scripps Howard Television.
His research focuses on humor and television news parody as an alternative journalistic practice, and on the media representation of neurodiverse individuals and of addiction and substance abuse in contemporary media.
Education
- Ph.D. in Communication: Moving Image Studies, Georgia State University
- M.A. in Communication: Film, Video, and Digital Imaging, Georgia State University
- B.A. in Communication: Broadcasting, Berry College
Selected Publications
- Hersey, Curt. A History of Television News Parody in America: Nothing but the Truthiness. Lexington Books (2022).
- Hersey, Curt. “’This is What’s Real’: The Pathology of Black Addiction in the Hood Films of the 1990s.” Journal of Film and Video1 (2022).
- Hersey, Curt & Steven Hames. “Story Mode: The Video Package.” In Writing and Editing for Digital Media(3rd), Routledge, 2019, pp. 253-269.
- Hersey, Curt. “Substance Abuse in Silent American Cinema: Controversies of Education Versus Sensationalism.” Studies in American Culture1 (2018) 37-54.
- Hersey, Curt. “NBC’s That Was the Week That Was as Proto-News Parody in the Network Era.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television3 (2018) 603-621.
- Hersey, Curt. “NBC’s That Was the Week That Wasas Proto-News Parody in the Network Era.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television3 (2018) 603-621.