Dr. Carolyn Coal
(Advertising) Professor Carolyn Coal is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications where she teaches advertising. After receiving her B.A. in communications at Penn State, she attended the Art Center of Design in Pasadena where she earned an MFA in film and advertising. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal State Fullerton, Coal was senior creative director and executive producer at NoCo Media Group, a creative services agency and producing company specializing in new media and niche markets.

Dr. Bob Engels
(RTVF) Professor Bob Engels is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television- Film where he teaches television writing and screenwriting. He has both his B.A. and MFA in theater from the University of Minnesota. Engels has written for television and film and has been a writer and director in theatre in New York and Minnesota. Prior to this full-time appointment, he taught part time at Cal State Fullerton and USC.

Dr. Brent Foster
(Journalism) Professor Brent Foster is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications where he teaches broadcast journalism and will serve as the liaison and program director of the KCET-CSUF partnership. He received his Ph.D. in communication from the University of Missouri. While working on his doctorate, he was an assistant professor at Central Missouri State University where he continued to teach after he finished his degree. Foster has worked in commercial radio and television and advised campus stations.

Bernd Kupka
(Human Communications) Professor Bernd Kupka is a lecturer in the Department of Human Communication Studies where he specializes in intercultural communication. Kupka grew up in Germany, where he went to college for two years, transferred and received his B.A. from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. After receiving his master’s degree at Radford University in Virginia, he went to the University of Otago in New Zealand where he is in the process of completing his Ph.D. in intercultural and organizational communication.

Dr. Heather Osborne-Thompson
(RTVF) Professor Heather Thompson is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film where she teaches television and critical studies courses. Osborne-Thompson received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the School of Cinema-TV at University of Southern California. Prior to coming to Cal State Fullerton, she was a lecturer at UC Santa Barbara, a visiting assistant professor at UCLA and held a postdoctoral fellowship at USC.