Gregory Bray Ph.D. Department of Communication and Media
Education
Ph.D. May, 2011 European Graduate School, Switzerland Media
M.A. May 2003 The New School Media Studies
Certificate May 2003 The New School Media Mngmt.
B.A. May 2000 SUNY New Paltz in Communication and Media
A.S. May 1998 SUNY Dutchess Community College in Communication and Media Arts
Teaching Experience
Chancellor Award Recipient for Excellence in Teaching
2022-Present, Chair, Department of Digital Media and Journalism. SUNY New Paltz.
2021-2020 Interim Chair, Department of Digital Media and Journalism. SUNY New Paltz.
2018 Faculty Fellow Television Academy Foundation Seminar (Emmy Foundation).
2018 SUNY New Paltz Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Award (Teacher of the Year)
2017-Present Associate Professor Digital Media and Journalism SUNY New Paltz
2011-17 Assistant Prof. SUNY New Paltz, Teaching Full Time
2010-2011 ABD Lecturer SUNY New Paltz, Teaching Full Time
2005-2010 Lecturer SUNY New Paltz, Teaching Full Time
Summer 2006 Adjunct Ulster County Community College Part Time
2004-2005 Adjunct SUNY New Paltz, Teaching Part Time
2003-2005 Adjunct Orange County College, Teaching Part Time
Spring 2003 T.A. New School University, Teaching Part Time
Peer Reviewed Scholarship, Creative Work and other Scholarly Publications
2018 Winner, Broadcast Education Association ‘Award of Excellence’ Faculty/Student Video Category. “Hanna Barbera at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Featuring Fred Siebert.”
2017 “Views on Women, Featuring Melissa Leo.” Original Short Promotional Video. Co-director with Nicole Quinn
2017-16 (Official Selection Woodstock Film Festival; Finalist: Audience Award Hoboken International Film Festival; First Place Narrative Feature Film BEA SRC) “Liner Notes” feature film. Producer, Director, co-written with John Patrick Bray. Shot on the Red Epic. 83 min. Available on Amazon
2017 “She Laughs By Night: Mad Love, The New 52, and Noir.” The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain. (Eds. S. Barbara, J. Perrin). P. 30-42. McFarland Press.
2016 (Peer-Reviewed) “Zizek’s Bat-Signal” Humanities Review
2015 (Peer-reviewed) “The Role of Parents in the Processing of Adolescent Trauma in Smallville”. First author with Elizabeth Munz, PhD. The Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 48, No. 3 2015 p. 507-519
2014 (Peer-reviewed) “Finding Clark Kent: Sites of Nostalgia and Affect” Mapping Smallville: Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters. (Eds. Barker, Ryan, Viatrowski). P. 161-173. Book chapter by Gregory Bray and John Patrick Bray.McFarland Press.
2011 Sovereignty in Singularity: Aporias in Ethics and Aesthetics. Atropos Press. Book. 172 Pages. Sole Author. September 2011 (Invited publication, academic press)
(Peer-reviewed) Communicator Award of Distinction for CRREO Regional Well Being(Producer) Industrial Video
2009 (Peer-Review), CINE Golden Eagle Inter-Media Silver Globe (Peer-Review), Telly Award (Peer Review). A Horse Connection (Producer, Director, Writer.) Distributed by Snagfilms. Documentary.
2007 “The Ousting of a Pro-Gay Mayor” Current TV Piece. Producer. Aired nationally on Current TV (Peer-review process for Broadcast).
2007 Certificate of Cinematic Excellence (Peer-review), Orpheus X (Producer, Director, Writer. Narrative.) Rochester International Film Festival
Production Work: (Above the Line 2007-Present)
Present-2008 Woodstock Film Festival Promotional Videos Producer, , 2010-2011 Videos, 2009, 2012-Present Videos and 2008 Videos
2011 AASHE Stars Report Video, Producer
SUNY New Paltz Honoring Howard Zinn (Videographer for Event Live Stream) With Noam Chomsky
2009 CataLogs and AnaLogs. Co-curator, Samuel Dorskey Museum, SUNY New Paltz
2009 This Land will Be Profitable to Those Willing To Venture It, Co-Producer
2009 Henry Hudson 400 Web-TV Episodes (3 episodes) Co-Producer
2008 Fund for New Paltz. Director
2008 Department of Communication and Media Internship Videos.
2008 A Horse Connection news segment for The Best of Our Knowledge, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Producer/Interviewer
2007 The Two Rays Interview with Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradburry, WAMC Northeast Public Radio Story, Producer/Interviewer
2007 Department of Communication and Media Department Video, producer.
Award for Students’ Media (2007-Present)
2021 “Dreamworld: Pine Bush, NY” Official Selection, Woodstock Film Festival. Official Selection, Sleepy Hollow Film Festival.
2021 “Blue Skies: A Documentary on Blue Sky Animation” Official Selection New Haven Short Documentary Film Festival.
2021 “Ben (Not the Fish)” Winner, Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence, Student Documentary Category. Official Selection, Hudson Valley Film Festival.
2020 “Unharnessed” Winner, Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence, Student Documentary Category. Student Documentary.
2019 “Unharnessed” Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth Student Documentary.
2018 “She Comes at Night.” Winner, SUNYWide Film Festival 1st Place Documentary Finalist American Society of Cinematographer’s College Award, Haskell Wexler Documentary Category. Student Documentary.
“Coming out as a Queen.” Winner, Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Award of Excellence, Student Documentary category. Student Documentary.
2017 Official Selection, Woodstock Film Festival. “Blackbird.” Documentary Short.
SUNY Wide Film Festival First Place, Documentary “The Fierce Five Percent: Women in the Sound Industry.”
SUNY Wide Film Festival Honorable Mention, “Silver”
Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence, Documentary “Where I Belong” (Summer 2017 award)
Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence, Documentary “Silver.”
Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence, Documentary, “Living in Recovery.”
2016 SUNYWide Film Festival First Place, Documentary “Serendipity: The Genius Behind Electric Lady” (as Faculty Advisor)
Broadcast Education Association, Fourth Place, Documentary “Serendipity: The Genius Behind Electric Lady” (as Faculty Advisor)
Broadcast Education Association, Honorable Mention, Documentary “Noisemakers” (as Faculty Advisor)
2015 SUNYWide Film Festival First Place, Documentary “The Superman Letters” (as Faculty Advisor)
Broadcast Education Association, Third Place, Documentary “The Superman Letters” (as Faculty Advisor)
2014 SUNYWIde Film Festival Best of Festival, “First Name Jogger, Last Name John” (as Faculty Advisor)
Broadcast Education Association Second Place, Documentary “First Name Jogger, Last Name John.” (as Faculty Advisor)
Broadcast Education Association, Third Place, Music Video “Stompin'” (As Faculty Advisor)
2013 Cine Special Jury Award, All I Can Say: The Musical (as Faculty Advisor) Student Narrative
Broadcast Education Association Third Place, Student Promotion/Spots category, Relay for Life at SUNY New Paltz (as Faculty Advisor)
Cine Golden Eagle Award, All I Can Say: The Musical (as Faculty Advisor) Student Narrative
National Communication Association Club of the Year (as Faculty Co-Advisor), The Communication and Media Society
Broadcast Education Association, Second Place Music Video All I Can Say: The Musical (as Faculty Advisor) Student Narrative
Silver Telly Award, Spirit (as Faculty Advisor) Student DocumentarySilver Telly Award, Sleepers (Narrative Production) (as Faculty Advisor) Student Narrative
3 Bronze Telly Awards, Downhill (Documentary) (as Faculty Advisor) Student Documentary
2 Bronze Telly Awards, Sleepers (Narrative Production) (as Faculty Advisor) Student Narrative
Sierra Nevada Film Festival Award, Mountain Film Festival, Downhill (as Faculty Advisor) Student Documentary
2011 SUNY Wide Film Festival Award, First-Place Documentary (as Faculty Advis0r) for Nobody Else But Me
2011 SUNY Wide Film Festival Award, First-Place Narrative (as Faculty Advisor) for Sleepers
2011 Audience Award, All I Can Say The Musical at the ABCD Film Festival New York City (as Faculty Adviser)
2011 Broadcast Education Association Honorable Mention (as Faculty Adviser) for Nobody Else But Me student documentary
2011 Eli Jaffe Film Award (as Faculty Advisor) for Nobody Else But Me student documentary
2011 State University of New York at New Paltz Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Service Award
2010 Broadcast Education Association King Foundation Best of Festival Award (as faculty advisor) Patchwork student documentary
2010 Broadcast Education Association First Place Long Form Documentary Award (as faculty advisor) Over the Ropes student documentary
2010 Pixie Award from the American Pixel Academy in Motion Graphics (as faculty advisor), Rolling: A Family Affair student documentary
2008 Rio: I am a Comic from Japan. Premiered at 2008 Westchester International Film Festival
Academic Presentations and Other Publications/Accomplishments
2014 Tugging on Batman’s Cape: Nolan’s Nihilism and Fandom. Presented at the Popular Culture Association. April 2014.
2012 Export, Post, and Converge: Assessment Models in Digital Media Production. Presented at the Broadcast Education Association. April 2012.
2012 Tipping Point: Creating a Viable Media communication Major for the 21st Century. Swap shop panel. Presented at the Broadcast Education Association. April 2012.
New Paradigms in Media Education. Presented at the Media Educators of America Conference/New England Broadcast Expo. October 2012.
2012 Barbara Hammer: The Body as Politics Presented at the Popular Culture Association.April 2012
2011 A Story Worth Visiting. Article.
2011 Smallville: A Retrospective. Article.
2011 Fine Arts as a Model for Digital Communication Presented at the New York State Communication Association
2011 SUNY Center for Online International Learning Course Development Grant
2010 Crossing Cultures in Cyberspace Presented at the New York State Communication Association
2009 The Role of Parents and Adolescent Trauma in Smallville presented at the Popular Culture Association. Panel Chair.
2010 Smallville Season 9 Blu Ray Review. Batman-on-film.com
Absolute Justice Smallville Episode Review. www.batman-on-film.com
2008 The Online Portfolio Presented at the Broadcast Education Association
2007 The Role of Parents and Adolescent Trauma in Smallville presented at the Comic Arts Conference, San Diego Comic-Con. (Poster Session)
Weaving the Web into the Media Curricula at SUNY New Paltz by Lynn Spangler and Gregory Bray.’ Presented at the Broadcast Education Association, and published in BEA Feedback.
Most Significant Professional Activities in the Areas of Public Service and College/University Service (2007-Present)
Present: Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Popular Culture
Present: Juror, The CINE Award
2017- 2012 Board of Directors, District 1 Representative, The Broadcast Education Association
Present- 2015, Jury Committee, The CINE Award
Present – 2015, Editorial Board, The Journal of Popular Culture
Present – 2008, Woodstock Film Festival Videography Director
Present – 2014 Ottaway Chair Search Committee, Member
2016 Search Committee, SUNY New Paltz, Academic Advisor position, Member
2011-2013 Curriculum Committee Co-Chair
2011 Search Committee, Media Management, Member
2011 Search Committee, Media, Member
2011 Search Committee, James Ottaway Visiting Professor of Journalism, Member
2011 External Review Committee, SUNY Sullivan Media Arts Program. Authored Report.
2011-Present Film and Video Studies Minor Co-Chair, SUNY New Paltz
2010-2011 Media Equipment Coordinator
2010-2011 Certificate in Digital Communications and Media Marketing Working , Group, Member
2010-Present Lambda Pi Eta NCA Honor’s Society Student Society Advisor
2009-2011 Curriculum Committee, Member
2007-Present Communication and Media Society Student Club Advisor
2010 Search Committee, James Ottaway Visiting Professor of Journalism, Member
2010 Search Committee, Journalism, Member
2009 Search Committee, Media, Chair
2008 Search Committee, Media, Member
2007-2010 Program Coordinator, Media Major
Professional Affiliations
Broadcast Education Association
Popular Culture Association
New York State Communication Association