AIFS Partnership Programs: Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs

Faculty Bios

Dr. Anthony R. Fellow

Dr. Anthony R. Fellow is chair of the Cal State Fullerton Department of Communications, the third largest in the United States. A specialist in American media history and politics, Fellow was named a 2007 Fulbright Scholar by the U.S. President's Commission. He will hold the prestigious Vercelli Chair of 20th Century Mass Communications History at the University of Piemonte, Milan, Italy, the highest Fulbright in Italy. At CSUF, he has taught undergraduate courses in History & Philosophy of American Mass Communications, Communications Law, Principles of Communications Research, Mass Media Effects, Global Media Systems, Writing for the Mass Media, and Reporting for the Mass Media and graduate courses in American Media History, Politics & Media, International Communications, and Media and Governance.

Fellow is author of American Media History, Copy Editors Handbook for Newspapers and News Writing in a Multimedia World.

He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Southern California, where he was a Walter H. Annenberg Fellow. He also holds an M.A. from California State University, Fullerton, where he was named the Outstanding Graduate Student.

He was an adjunct professor of journalism at USC for five years and was publisher-professor of the campus daily at Cal State Los Angeles before coming to CSUF.

Before obtaining his doctorate, Fellow was an editor and reporter for Thomson Newspapers, at the time one of the world's leading newspaper publishers. He worked for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune for 10 years. In addition to his editor duties, Fellow headed an election team which covered the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter. He has received numerous awards for news and feature writing and newspaper design.

In addition to his CSUF administrative duties, Fellow is a very active member of his community. He recently won re-election to his fifth term on the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and completed his 13th year as a director on the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, where he now sits as first vice chair of the board. He was previously chair of the Communications and Legislation Committee and Ethics Subcommittee.  A leader in water politics, Fellow was appointed by L.A. Supervisor Gloria Molina to the Water Appeals Board.

Fellow also served 7 years as an elected City Councilman and vice mayor. He was a candidate for the state Assembly, losing his closest race by 400 votes.
Fellow is married to Clara Potes-Fellow, a former journalist and press secretary to Bill Clinton. She currently is director of media for the Cal State University System and spokesperson for CSU Chancellor Charles Reed

Jule Selbo

Jule Selbo, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Screenwriting area. She spent nearly two decades in the professional film industry: she is an award-winning screenwriter and producer with work in feature film, network and cable television, animated series and daytime dramas, working with filmmakers such as George Lucas, Roland Joffe, Lauren Shuler-Donner, Michael Newell, Aaron Spelling. She continues to be active in the industry as a screenwriter and producer while working with CSUF’s student screenwriters.

Dr. Selbo has written two books on screenwriting structure as well asFilm Genre for the Screenwriter(2014, Routledge)and her bookWomen Screenwriters International Guide(2015, co-authored/edited with Jill Nelmes, publisher Palgrave Macmillan). Her interests and research center on screenwriting history, theory and practice, film genre, national narrative structures in film, and Pre-Code American Cinema. She lectures internationally on story structure and film genre. She is also co-editor of theJournal of Screenwritingand is active in the International Screenwriters Research Network (SRN).