Liam O'Brien is Chair of the Department of Film, Video and Interactive Media and an Emmy and other award winning professor of Communications at Quinnipiac. His research interests include theatrical feature film, television and interactive media production in Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States; propaganda and disinformation during wartime and natural history and adventure documentary filmmaking. He has worked as a director and/or producer for Discovery Communications, Turner Broadcasting, National Wildlife Productions, Audubon Productions and CBS News and has served in a variety of production capacities on over a dozen feature films.