The John H. Mitchell Visiting Professorship in Media Entertainment brings a highly experienced media industry professional or scholar whose body of work has been committed to ethics in the workplace and to developing, promoting, or researching social change initiatives.
The professorship follows a three-year rotation pattern which reflects the main areas of the curriculum: Screenwriting, Production, and Studies. FTVM faculty will invite a renowned practitioner or scholar to teach (or co-teach) one BA course each academic year in his or her area of expertise during the fall term.
Fall 2024 - Kemp Powers, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Kemp Powers, the John H. Mitchell Visiting Professor in Screenwriting, is the co-writer and co-director of Soul, the writer and producer of One Night in Miami, and the co-director of Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse. Kemp was a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2002-2003 when he took his first screenwriting class in our Screenwriting Program with film critic and screenwriter, Terry Lawson.
