Meet the Faculty

StuartC. Minnis

Stuart C. Minnis (Stu)

Professor of Media and Communication
Chair of Media and Communication


Degrees Held

B.S., M.S., Texas Christian University
Ph.D., University of Kansas

Office Location: 236 Batten Student Center
Phone: 757-455-3243
Email: sminnis@vwu.edu
Department/s:
- Media and Communication
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Stu Minnis holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Kansas and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Texas Christian University. He teaches film production and film & media studies at VWU, and he advises Lambda Pi Eta, the Communication Honor Society. Professionally, he produces documentary and avant-garde films and is active in the University Film and Video Association. 

“Andrei Tarkovsky.”  The Encyclopedia of Religion and Film.  Eric Mazur, ed.  New York: ABC-CLIO, 2011.

“Roughened Form of Time, Space, and Character in The Mirror.”  The Quarterly Review of Film and Video 25:3 (May 2008): 241-250.

Review of Winston Wheeler Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, eds., Experimental Cinema: The Film ReaderThe Journal of Film and Video 55.2/3 (Summer/Fall 2003): 104-107.

“Andrei Tarkovsky.”  The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers.  John Tibbetts and James Welsh, eds.  New York: Facts on File Press, 2002.

“Sergei Paradjanov.”  The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers.  John Tibbetts and James Welsh, eds.  New York: Facts on File Press, 2002.

 “Physiological Problematics in Immersive Virtual Environments.”  The Journal of Moving Image Studies 1.1 (Fall 2001).

“Digitalization and the Instrumentalist Approach to the Photographic Image.”  Iris 25 (Spring 1998): 49-59.

“Response to Peter Lehman’s ‘Pluralism versus the Correct Position’.”  Cinema Journal 37:2 (Winter 1998): 92-95.

 “The Handmaid’s Tale.”  The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film.  James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds.  New York: Facts on File Press, 1998.

The Name of the Rose.”  The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film.  James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds.  New York: Facts on File Press, 1998.

"Sergei Paradjanov.”  The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers.  John Tibbetts and James Welsh, eds.  New York: Facts on File Press, 2002.

The Handmaid’s Tale.”  The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film.  James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds.  New York: Facts on File Press, 1998.

The Name of the Rose.”  The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film.  James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds.  New York: Facts on File Press, 1998.