Dr. Stephane Dunn, the Cinema, Television and Emerging Media Studies Department Chair at Morehouse College, has been selected for an Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by the Television Academy Foundation in Hollywood. She is one of 18 professors selected from colleges and universities nationwide for the 2024 fellowship program.
Named in honor of the late Alex Trebek, longtime host of the hit quiz show Jeopardy!, the Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowships offer financial support to attendees of the Foundation’s annual Media Educators Conference. The three-day conference, held at the Television Academy’s North Hollywood campus in California, Oct. 9-11, connects college classrooms with the television industry by providing media professors with curriculum-enhancing seminars on the latest in the art, science and business of television with prominent leaders in show business.
Financial support for fellows includes registration fees, travel and/or hotel accommodations for the conference. Preference is given to attendees from minority-serving institutions. The Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowships are made possible by a gift from the Harry & Judy Friedman Family Foundation.
Dr. Dunn has written, co-directed, and produced two short films. She teaches screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, creative writing, AA Cinema, and film criticism at Morehouse College and helped to establish the Morehouse Cinema, Television & Emerging Media Studies (CTEMS) major. She is the author of Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (University of Illinois Press) and the novel Snitchers (2022).
Professor Dunn is a frequent moderator and commentator who has been featured on A & E Network’s Voices Magnified, E! Entertainment, NPR, and in the documentary Body Parts. Her essays and commentaries have appeared in edited books and a number of publications, including Ms., The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN.com., The Atlantic, Vogue.com, TheRoot, and Ebony, among others. She was selected as the 2016 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award winner for her then novel in progress, Snitchers. Her screenplay Chicago ’66 is the 2020 Finish Line/Tirota Social Impact Screenwriting Competition winner.
Congratulations, Dr. Dunn!