Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Studies, CVPA
Contact Information
Email: msantia7@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-3287
Campus: Fairfax
Building:聽College Hall, C113
Mail Stop: 5D8
Spring 2024
Fall 2024
Classes Taught
Biography
May is a second-year PhD student and a film scholar. Her work focuses on using cinema as a cultural studies tool for colonized film economies in the Caribbean with a focus on Puerto Rico. She possesses a BFA, producing聽Little Girls聽(2013) as her undergraduate thesis film as part of a study of teen films and the effect they have on female teen societies. She also possesses an MFA where she created聽Nightgaze聽(2017), a 鈥渧isual album鈥 based on music video theory to depict a young woman鈥檚 visceral experience with depression. Her work has screened across the country, including the Brooklyn Women鈥檚 Film Festival, Tampa Bay Comic Con, Florida鈥檚 Undergraduate Research Conference, Orlando Film Festival, Final Girls Film Festival, and more.
May currently runs a foreign-horror based podcast she hosts and writes, Horrorspiria. She is currently working on a queer horror zine with two other queer horror scholars due in summer 2022.
Degrees
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BFA in Film Production, University of Central Florida
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MFA, Digital Entrepreneurial Cinema, University of Central Florida