Faculty Profile
Greg Steirer
Associate Professor of English and Film Studies (2013)
Contact Information
East College Room 402
717-254-8095
Bio
Professor Steirer is a scholar of media industries and creative labor. He has published and taught courses on Hollywood, media law and regulation, the digital public sphere, media organizations, comic books, television, video games, and horror films. He is the author of The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood, written with Alisa Perren, (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Legal Stories: Narrative-based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era (University of Michigan Press, 2024).
Education
- B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 2001
- Ph.D., 2010
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
ENGL 222 Dogs: Intro to Animal Studies
What is it like to be a non-human animal? Why do animals behave the way they do? How do animal species evolve and what can humans learn from their genetic histories? How has human society depended upon the management of non-human animals? What do humans owe-morally and ethically-to non-human animals? Questions like these are at the core of Animal Studies, a rapidly growing field that takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining both human-animal relationships and non-human animals themselves. In this course, students will be introduced to the foundational concepts, methods, and research goals of Animal Studies through a focus on Canis familiaris-that is, the dog. We will pay special attention to the way dogs get represented in different kinds of discourse: literature (including memoirs and novels), ethology, sociology, and philosophy.
FMST 310 The Essay Film
Cross-listed with ENGL 331-02. In this course, students will examine the essay film, a genre of documentary that eschews traditional rhetorical and narrative cinematic approaches in favor of an exploratory, digressive, and often self-reflective approach to filmmaking. Readings will include a number of literary essays, as well as theoretical works on the essay as a genre of writing and filmmaking. Films may include works by Werner Herzog, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, and Agnès Varda.
ENGL 331 The Essay Film
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01. In this course, students will examine the essay film, a genre of documentary that eschews traditional rhetorical and narrative cinematic approaches in favor of an exploratory, digressive, and often self-reflective approach to filmmaking. Readings will include a number of literary essays, as well as theoretical works on the essay as a genre of writing and filmmaking. Films may include works by Werner Herzog, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, and Agnès Varda.