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Meet the USF Faculty and staff who work tirelessly to bring you this Internship Program.

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Michael Shuman

Director of the Department of English Internship Program
Professor of Instruction in the USF Department of English

Phone: 813-974-5763
Email: mshuman@usf.edu

Michael L. Shuman is the director of the USF English Department Internship Program and is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of English at University of South Florida. He teaches courses in Professional & Technical Writing and coordinates the department’s PTC internship program.

While primarily teaching technical communications, his research interests include film studies, especially film noir of the late 1940s and early 1950s, the psychoanalytic theory of Otto Rank, and postwar speculative fiction. Dr. Shuman’s publications in film studies include “Dracula’s Deuce: How Horror Films Haunt Garage and Surf Music,” an analysis of film tropes and popular music for Weird Fiction Review, and “Accidental Outlaw: Agency and Genre Ida Lupino’s The Bigamist,” a chapter in Ida Lupino, Filmmaker, edited by Phillip Sipiora.

He is Deputy Editor of The Mailer Review, a publication dedicated to the work of author Norman Mailer, and regularly contributes articles and book reviews to that annual journal. Recent work includes “When Genres Collide: ‘The Last Night’ as Science Fiction,” a study of Mailer’s 1963 film treatment anticipating global catastrophe, and an essay on the 1947 serial Jack Armstrong: All American Boy, in an edited collection on the films of director Wallace Fox.

Shuman’s essay on the film poster for Silent Running, a 1972 environmental science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, will be published as a chapter in Film by Design: The Art of the Movie Poster, forthcoming this fall from University Press of Mississippi.

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