Penn State Harrisburg Faculty Details
Education
- MFA Columbia University
- BFA Rhode Island School of Design
- Studied Cinematography and Editing at the Los Angeles Film School.
Experience
Ms. Rios joined Penn State Harrisburg in 2003. She is an award winning writer and filmmaker. In collaboration with other directors, she has shot documentary, narrative, and experimental films that have appeared at many international film festivals, and have been broadcast in the US and Europe.
Teaching
Ms. Rios teaches courses in video and audio production, creative non-fiction writing and film theory.
Research and creative work
Recent projects include the short film What Ana Left Behind, written and directed by Ms. Rios, and the experimental film an explanation, and then burn the ashes, by Annemarie Jacir, which screened at London's Tate Museum in May 2007.
Her fiction includes the short story Open Season, which received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and First Prize in Fiction at the Orchid Literary Review. Open Season was performed at the InterAct Theater in Philadelphia in 2006.
College News
‘Lessons learned from launch of blue M&Ms’
Do you like M&Ms? Ever wonder where the blue M&Ms came from?
A free presentation on “Lessons Learned in Launching the Blue M&M,” featuring Steve Vesce, president and chief executive officer of the Hershey Management Group, LLC, comes to the Special Events Room on campus Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 6:15 p.m.
Heard on campus – Franklin and the Junto
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member and Benjamin Franklin scholar George Boudreau terms his recent discovery of a long-lost poem written in 1732 as “one of the greatest finds of my career.”
An associate professor of humanities and history, Boudreau’s research interests focus on Franklin and his philosophical organization called the Junto and the role it played in the cultural transformation of Philadelphia in the 1700s. Boudreau recently related his research findings during a Gallery Lounge presentation hosted by the offices of Academic Affairs and Research and Graduate Studies.
Obama Administration gets "Six–Month Checkup" Nov. 4
A local consultant physician and surgeon will join three Penn State Harrisburg faculty experts to give a public “Six-Month Checkup of the Obama Administration” at noon Wednesday, Nov. 4.
The presentation in the Gallery Lounge of the Olmsted Building on campus is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6315.