Michelle Simms
LecturerQuick Information
Contact
- Email Michelle Simms
- LAAH 210
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Affiliations
- Performance and Visual Studies
- Film Studies Program
Biography
Dr. Simms is fascinated with the structure and power of Story and utilizes the Hero’s Journey in her course design. As a Lecturer in Film Studies, Dr. Simms teaches the language of film through her Introduction to Film Analysis course and introduces Aggies to the film world through her special topics courses centered on story performance through the performance language of writing, directing, producing, and cinematography.
Dr. Simms is an Informal Education researcher, leveraging Entertainment-Education methodology to create film and television shows that communicate academic concepts through the language of entertainment media.
Ask Dr. Simms how her eclectic academic background and film industry experience actually work together. She loves to tell that story!
Education
M.F.A.
Film & Television
(focus: Directing)
Regent University
Ph.D.
Curriculum & Instruction
(focus: Entertainment-Education)
Texas A&M University
M.Ag.
Natural Resources Development (focus: geographic information systems)
Texas A&M University
M.S.
Geography (focus: geography education)
Texas A&M University
B.S.
Geogrphy
Texas A&M University
Scholarly Interests
- Film/Television writing, producing, directing
- Structure and expression of the story across entertainment media
- Teaching science through an Entertainment-Education methodology
- Filmmaking-as-performance
- Different-abilities and the Arts