Directory Profile
Luci Marzola
Student Services Advisor II
Luci Marzola has a background in academic scholarship and media industry administration. She holds a PhD and MA from SCA’s Division of Cinema and Media Studies and a BA in Communications from UCLA. In addition to teaching industry history classes at USC, UC Irvine, and Chapman University, Marzola has written for IndieWire, American Cinematographer, and Film History. Before that, she spent several years in production and post-production administration. She was a 2019-2020 recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Cinema and Media Studies at USC in 2017-2018. Her research focuses on the history of media technology, industry, and labor. Her book Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.