BA, Gustavus Adolphus College
MA, University of Texas at Austin
PhD, Indiana University at Bloomington
Bjorn Ingvoldstad is Professor of Communication, in his 20th year at BSU. His teaching encompasses both critical/cultural media studies and film/video production courses. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1991, earned an MA from The University of Texas in Critical/Cultural Media Studies in 1995, and received a PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University in 2006. He taught high school in Lithuania 1997-98, and received a Fulbright Fellowship to Lithuania in 2015, teaching at Vytautas Magnus University. He has published several pieces on Lithuanian media and media audiences, with a continued research interest in East/Central European film and media. He serves as a faculty advisor for the BSU baseball team.
Baltic cinema and media, East/Central European cinema and media, film history, global cinema, Godzilla, Spike Lee, radio/television/film