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With over 35 majors and minor areas of concentration, Elmira College lays the foundation for a diverse, cross discipline education, encouraging you to both specialize and explore.
Students in Media Studies, Communication, and Design come in contact with faculty whose diverse professional backgrounds help students imagine an array of potential career paths.
One of the features of this highly customizable and interdisciplinary major is that students in Media Studies, Communication, and Design come in contact with faculty whose diverse professional backgrounds – practicing artists, consultants, designers, producers, and scholars – help students imagine an array of potential career paths.
For instance, the major's founding director, Dr. Matt Seybold, is the founding editor of MarkTwainStudies.com, the official website of the Center For Mark Twain Studies, which has been cited by numerous major media outlets, including The New York Times and Washington Post. He is also executive producer of CMTS's podcast, The American Vandal, which has made the Apple Podcast charts in fifteen countries, and been mentioned on HBO and MSNBC.
Dr. Annaliese Hoehling
Assistant Professor of English, Director of Academic Writing Program
Harris Hall B
Jan Kather
Instructor of Art
Gannett-Tripp Library Nathenson Computer Center
Dr. Mitchell Lewis
Professor of English Literature and Georgia Harkness Professor of English Literature
McGraw Hall Room 210
Dr. Matt Seybold
Associate Professor of American Literature and Mark Twain Studies
Cowles Hall
Director of Media Studies, Communications, and Design
Resident Scholar at the Center for Mark Twain Studies