Benjamin Thevenin

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Benjamin Thevenin received a BA in Media Arts Studies and a minor in Humanities from BYU in April 2006.

While attending BYU, Benjamin worked with the Children's Media Initiative, storyboarding "The Toy Princess," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," and "Heartache." He also illustrated and directed a CMI film called "Work," which was a collaborative project with fellow alumni Danielle H. Palliser and Shane Atkinson. In 2008, Work was accepted for competition at the East Lansing Film Festival, which is held in Michigan during March.

From 2004 to 2006, Benjamin was also involved in the BYU Hands on a Camera project. He worked as a media literacy instructor for elementary and high school students, helping them become more aware of and involved in media, as well as produce their own short documentary films.

Benjamin attended Florida State University from 2006 to 2008 and received a MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities with an emphasis in Media & Culture.

Benjamin presented "Sharkboy Saves the Day: Multiculturalism in the Children's Films of Robert Rodriguez" at Florida State University's 2007 Film & Literature conference. He presented "Homework for Dessert: Mulitiple Intelligences and Media Studies in the Home" at the National Association of Humanities Education's 2007 conference. And Benjamin's essay "A New Nature Narrative for Children in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke" was accepted to the upcoming Humanities Education and Research Association's 2009 national conference.

Thevenin now works as a part-time faculty member for BYU's TMA department, creating undergraduate course materials, teaching classes, and assisting in the launch of The National Association of Media Literacy Education's new online, interdisciplinary journal, The Journal of Media Literacy Education.