Resume/CV

Brennan Ryan

(702) 587-9007 ;  brennanryan77@yahoo.com ;  bryan458@usc.edu

 

Education:

Master of Arts, Cinema and Media Studies – University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA                  May 2025

                                                                                                                                                          GPA: 4.00

 

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature – Barrett Honors College – Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ               May 2019 Minor: Film and Media Studies                                                                                                               GPA: 3.74

 

Honors Thesis – “Citational Cinema: The Postmodern and Political Films of Adam McKay and Spike Lee”

May 2019 - May 2022

 

Professional Experience
Student Services Assistant and Testing Services Coordinator 
USC Office of Student Accessibility Services (OSAS) -- Los Angeles, CA                                 November 2025 -- Present

• Serve as first point of contact for testing-related questions and accommodations;

• Maintain and update confidential student records (AIM database; FERPA compliance);

• Respond to inquiries via phone, email, and in-person; refer as appropriate;

• Facilitate test check-out, preparation, and monitor exams.

 

Teaching Assistant, Course Reader and CAMS Office Assistant                                                               

USC Department of Cinema and Media Studies – Los Angeles, CA                                       August 2023 – May 2025

• Assisted in a range of 100- to 400-level courses for the Department, including ones centered on film form, classical

• Hollywood, and international cinema, grading assignments and holding weekly office hours;
  • Lectured and taught my own discussion section with 25 students for the Department’s flagship Intro to Cinema
  course, independently crafting my own lesson plan every week;
  • Assisted with administrative tasks in the CAMS office during the 2024 summer, handling communication requests,
  resolving Workday/payroll issues, and aiding the Program Coordinator with special projects;
  • Extensive experience doing archival research at the Warner Bros. archives housed in Doheny library on USC’s
  campus for various graduate research projects (including financial/contractual documents to support my Capstone).

 

Communications Intern

ASU Department of English – Tempe, AZ                                                                        February 2019 – April 2019

• Designed and compiled the English Department's weekly undergraduate newsletter;

• Independently coordinated with faculty to advertise opportunities and events;

• Created a template for the online newsletter using Mailchimp software.

 

Writing and Teaching Assistant For Master Level Courses

W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU – Tempe, AZ                                                         October 2018 – April 2019

• Provide support to professors in grading written assignments for MACC/MTAX students;

• Evaluated student assignments for spelling, punctuation, grammar, clarity and organization;

• Independently coordinated with and gave feedback to students’ written assignments;

• Worked one-on-one with students, many of whom spoke English as a second language.

 

Writing Analyst

W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU  – Tempe, AZ                                                      August 2018 – October 2018

• Critiqued student-written reflections for the School of Accountancy's ACC 101 "LEAP" course;

• Assessed students' grammar, diction, syntax and organizational writing abilities in their coursework;

• Offered feedback to students and made suggestions for their further development as writers.

 

Columnist

The State Press – Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ                                                     January 2016 – May 2016

• Wrote articles and multimedia pieces for the university's independent student-run newspaper;

• Pitched all of my assignments independently as the paper’s sole writer covering professional sports;

• Wrote an article and recorded a podcast discussing the concussion crisis in American football;

• Coordinated with the Cleveland Browns’ communications department for a piece analyzing embrace of analytics in the NFL.

 

Honors/ Conferences/ Projects/ Publications:
• Currently Assisting Dr. Vicki Callahan and Ben Model on a forthcoming first-ever Blu-ray release of Mabel Normand
films, setting budgets for grants and using Kickstarter to raise funds;
• Awarded the Annenberg Graduate Fellowship (2024-2025 Academic Year);
• Presented at New York University’s annual Cinema Studies Student Conference (February 2025);
• Covered the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for USC’s Cannes Classics Program;
• Will be presenting my Graduate Capstone Project at USC’s inaugural Hollywood Conference (July 2025);
• Review of Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism (2023) published in the Fall 2024 (issue 44.2) edition of USC’s
graduate film publication Spectator.

Skills:
Microsoft Office, Google Suite, WordPress, Mailchimp, Wix and Kickstarter.