Marie Barnas has earned two M.F.A. degrees, first in Film Production from Ohio University and then in Creative Writing from Georgia College and State University. She teaches introductory and upper division courses in video and film production including single-camera production, multi-camera production, scriptwriting, directing, editing, film history, and aesthetics. Currently, she teaches film history, theory, and critical analysis courses fully online including Film Appreciation, History of American Television, History of American Cinema, International Cinema, and Voices in Cinema and TV. Her professional interests include online education, study abroad, and documentary production. Her projects have won numerous domestic and international awards including Emmy, Telly, Cindy, and Worldfest Houston and have earned over 50 awards and honors at various film festivals, performances, and exhibitions worldwide.

In 2014-15 she was awarded fellowships by The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The International Radio and Television Society, and The National Association of Television Producers and Executives. She was awarded a second IRTS fellowship in 2018, and in 2022 she was chosen as a Japan Studies Institute Fellow by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. She has taught both on ground and online classes in Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee and abroad in Lithuania and Bulgaria for over two decades. She has completed classes and obtained over a dozen certifications in online teaching and learning from Quality Matters, The Learning Resources Network, The Online Learning Consortium, and The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is professionally licensed in film production accounting, budgeting, and scheduling through Entertainment Partners (EP). She is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Nashville/Midsouth Chapter and The Telly Council. She has given over 20 academic presentations in multiple discipline specific conferences and has performed service to the university and public for over 20 years.

Her publications include journal articles published in The International Journal of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences and The Journal of Media Education, and she has co-authored four textbooks, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Radio in the Movies, Scripting Media and Finance for Film and Television: A Guide to Film Accounting. Since 2017, she has twice been an MTSU MT-IGO recipient, has solely raised over $156,000 in MTSU Department of Media Arts departmental funds for online instruction and enhancement, and has helped raise over $80,000 for other MTSU Department of Media Arts departmental support initiatives.

Her latest film, The Cost of Caring, can be viewed linear or streaming nationwide on American Public Television (PBS). In her spare time she enjoys spoiling her two fur babies, Boris Boo Boo and Tashi Washi Woo. When she isn’t traveling to distant lands, she also co-produces the award winning podcast Voca Vacay with her husband and colleague Frank Barnas, Ed.S., M.F.A. She is a native of South Charleston, West Virginia and worked in the film industry in Atlanta, GA from 2004-2011.

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