Research Interests
Dr. Allred graduated from Brigham Young University–Hawaii and went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley where he focused on film and media studies. As a Fulbright Scholar, he spent a year in the archives of Germany researching for his first book, Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity (Routledge, 2017), on the relationship between film and modern historical experience. His latest book, Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) analyzes the central role of media in shaping visionary religious culture. His teaching connects new media with old—even dead—media to broaden communication history and theory, inspire creative media production, and better equip students to engage the present media-saturated world with critical thought and attentive care. His interdisciplinary work in media studies has also been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Film History, Mormon Studies Review, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
Education
Ph.D. German Media Studies, University of California-Berkeley
M.A. German, University of California-Berkeley
B.A. History, Brigham Young University–Hawaii
Classes
COMM 251: Intro to Cultural Theory
COMM 360: Theory and Methods
COMM 301: Internet and Society
COMM 410: Political Communication
FILM 365R: Special Studies in World Cinema