Paige Piper is Senior Academic Program Services Specialist for Film Studies, Moving-Image Production, and film and media minors. She primarily works on curriculum, assessment, scheduling, recruitment, and program support for the film and media areas of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts. She additionally serves as Internship Coordinator for the department's major programs in film and theatre, and directs the Film Ambassador program. Piper earned a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and has taught cinema, comics, language, and cultural/media analysis courses at multiple higher-education institutions, including Wright State University, Denison University, and the Ohio State University. Piper’s academic research focuses on transnational crime fiction, film and television genre and seriality, and Francophone visual and popular cultures. Publications include work on transnational "social thrillers," spatial dynamics of French thriller cinema, and the Nordic Noir trend in European crime television. Piper has served as Associate Guest Editor for a special issue of Film Matters Magazine, and has been a member of the Midwest Working Group in French and Francophone Cinemas, judge for the Mad Royal Film Festival, and screening panel member for the Austin Film Festival.