Charisse L’Pree Corsbie-Massay
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Social Psychology, School of Arts Letters and Sciences, University of Southern California. Expected – May 2011. Emphasis on Television and Youth Psychology.
M.A., Critical Studies, School of Cinema-TV, University of Southern California. 2006.
Emphasis on Television, Mass Media and Youth Culture.
B.S., Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2003
B.S., Humanities: Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2003
RESEARCH
Research Assistant, Surgical Multimedia Academic and Research Training (S.M.A.R.T.) Project, 2004-5, Plastic Surgery Dept. Keck School of Medicine, USC.
Position involved extensive research of existing multimedia learning tools in the medical field, establishing guidelines to optimize cognitive efficiency; randomized control trial comparing two multimedia learning tools for surgical procedures.
Research Assistant, Aesthetic judgment of faces in degraded images, 2002-3, Face and Object Recognition Lab, MIT.
This project investigated brain’s processing of attractiveness. Position involved collecting faces for face database as well as designing and conducting experiments. Paper presented at the Vision Sciences Annual Meeting, May 2002
PUBLICATION
Grunwald, T. Corsbie-Massay, C. “Guidelines for Cognitively Efficient Multimedia Learning Tools: A review of literature relating to educational strategies, cognitive load and interface design.” Academic Medicine. Mar 2006
Grunwald, T. Corsbie-Massay, C. “Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (S.M.A.R.T.) Tool. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14. Ed. Westwood, JD. IOS/Ohmsha Press. Washington DC. 2006
“Book Review: Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn’s Democracy and New Media”, Resource Center for Cyber Cultural Studies, September 2005. [READ]
Sinha, P. Sadr, J., Fatke, B., Massay, C. (2002) Aesthetic Judgments of Faces in Degraded Images. Vision Sciences Society, 2, 255; Journal of Vision, 2(7), 743a [READ]
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (S.M.A.R.T.) Tool: A comparative analysis of cognitive efficiency for two multimedia learning interfaces that teach the pre procedural processes for carpal tunnel release. Presented at ED-MEDIA: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Orlando, FL, 2006
Television Conventions and Beauty Pageant Ideology. Presented at Pacific Sociological Association, Universal City, CA, 2006 [READ]
Creating Identities: The Emergence and Commodification of the Single City Girl (1960-1975). Presented at the Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Alexandria, VA, 2006 [READ]
CNN vs. Fox: The New Cola Wars. Presented at the Communication in Crisis Conference, Amherst, MA, 2006 [READ]
Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (S.M.A.R.T.) Tool: A Comparative Analysis of Cognitive Efficiency for two Multimedia Learning Interfaces that Teach the Pre-procedural Processes for Carpal Tunnel Release. Presented at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, Long Beach, CA, 2006
Chér and Jessica Simpson; An investigation into star couples. Presented at Media Stardom Conference, Plymouth, NH, 2005 [READ]
Work Hard, Play Hard; The Hidden Celebration of MIT’s Alternative Community. Presented at The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Athens, GA, 2005. [READ]
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant CTCS 191: Introduction to Television, Spring 2006, USC
Reader/Grader CTCS 469: Style of Spielberg, Fall 2005, USC
Coordinator Jigsaw Project 2002-2003, Collaborative: Lifelong Kindergarten, MIT Media Lab; Computer Clubhouse Network; Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston
Created and produced a collaborative project teaching adolescents around the Boston area to create movies using Adobe Premiere.
Instructor MTV: An Analytical History, Summer 2002, MIT.