Research Interests
Global and Transnational Cinema; Digital Media Production; Stylistics; Dance in Film; Digital Humanities; Contemporary Cinema; French Cinema; Industry Studies; Videographic Criticism; Movement in Media; Genre Studies; Performative Research
Education
Ph.D. in Communication Arts (Film), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017
M.A. in Communication Arts (Film), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
C.M.A. (Certified Movement Analyst), Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, 2014
B.A. in English, Carleton College, 2008
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Assistant Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
External Links
Recent Publications
Guha, S., Oyallon-Koloski, J., & Cooper, A. (2025). Spotlight: Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism SIG. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 64(3), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2025.a960482
Oyallon-Koloski, J. (2024). Storytelling in motion: Cinematic choreography and the film musical. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197602669.001.0001
Oyallon-Koloski, J. (2024). Thinking diegetically Spatiotemporal principles and mimetic rhetorical functions in videographic criticism. Academic Quarter, 27, 43-56. https://doi.org/10.54337/academicquarter.i27.8826
Oyallon-Koloski, J., & Junokas, M. J. (2022). Enhancing Film Choreography Through Digital Representation of Camera Movement and Agency. In Proceedings of 2022 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2022 Article 14 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Par F180475). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3537972.3537990
Oyallon-Koloski, J. (2021). Danceploitation, Musical Disruption, and Synergy in Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Breakin’. In J. L. Wright, & M. Shearer (Eds.), Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons (pp. 15-27). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501357084.0007