Jeff Wray

Associate professor of film studies and African American literature and culture Michigan State University

East Lansing MI

Expert in Third World and Black U.S. Cinema

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Biography

Jeffrey Wray specializes in Film Studies, Filmmaking, Screenwriting, Third World and Black U.S. Cinema, and Gay Cinema. Publications include: Dir. and Writer, The Evolution of Burt (film); in post-production; Dir. and Writer, China (film). An Independent Television Services project, broadcast on PBS in 2003; Dir., The Slave Ship of Injustice (film), 1999; Dir. and Writer, August (film), 1995.

Wray has won the prestigious Paul Varg Award (2016), which was created by the College of Arts and Letters Alumni Association Board of Directors in 1989, and is given each year to a professor or associate professor with at least 10 years in the college who has provided the highest quality education for students at MSU.

Industry Expertise

Research

Writing and Editing

Education/Learning

Fine Art

Motion Pictures and Film

Areas of Expertise

Filmmaking

Film Studies

Screenwriting

Third World and Black U.S. Cinema

Gay Cinema

Accomplishments

Paul Varg Award

2016-01-01

Awarded by the College of Arts and Letters Alumni Association Board of Directors, MSU

Education

Ohio University School of Film

M.F.A.

Fimmaking, Screenwriting, Film Studies

1994

Hiram College

B.A.

Communications

1982

News

Is Oscar racist?

WKAR

2017-02-24

Jeff Wray is a professor in the college of Arts and Letters and a film maker...

MSU experts can discuss all things Oscars

MSU Today

2016-02-22

“’The Revenant’ is a big American film, which I think the academy likes. The hero, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, has a Native son and the Natives in the film are not the bad guys, but rather are justified in their violence and vengeance. The comfort of the traditional, with a dose of genre reappraisal to fit modern American sensibilities, makes ‘The Revenant’ the Oscar winner in 2016.”...

Faculty Conversations: Jeff Wray

MSU Today online

2009-04-17

His title is professor. But beyond teaching, he’s also a filmmaker.

“I love filmmaking, and I really love to teach filmmaking,” said Jeff Wray, an associate English professor in the film studies program. “I always tell my students, ‘Go out and make your own films.’”