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FIlm Media Program

FacultyGerald DeSchepper

Gerald DeSchepper, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor

Email: jdeschepper@mail.uri.edu
Phone: (401) 277-5073
Office: Shepard Building, Room 230 (Providence Campus)
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 4-5:30pm, and by appointment

Jerry DeSchepper is an Adjunct Professor of Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island.  He holds a doctorate in Comparative Arts, with an emphasis in film studies, and teaches film courses through several curriculums at the university—English, Art History and Film Media.  His main interests are in American Independent Film, the horror genre and Drama into Film.  Summers he studies drama at the University of London.

Jerry is currently an advisor for film media students at the Providence Campus, where he teaches most of his courses.  He especially enjoys working with adult evening students at the university’s College of Continuing Education.