Rahul Hamid

B.A., Columbia University. M.A., New York University. Areas of interest include post-New Wave international film, Iranian cinema, third cinema, early cinema, genre theory, poetry and film, AIDS and the media. Assistant editor at Cineaste magazine and frequent contributor to scholarly and journalistic publications in both media and social science. Currently working on a study of new Iranian cinema. SLC, 2007-

Jason Mohaghegh

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Special interests include modern Iranian cultural, intellectual, and political history; comparative literature; and avant-garde philosophies of East and West. Taught at Columbia University, Hofstra University, and the New School. Current research focuses on comparing radical intellectual formations in contemporary Middle Eastern and Western history and also on theorizing the relationship between the writing act (literary, philosophical, critical) and society. Forthcoming book, The Chaotic Imagination: Persian Literature and Western Thought in Alliance. SLC, 2006-

Gilberto Perez

Courses: Cinema and Society, The Documentary Image

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. M.A., Princeton University. Author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium; film critic for The Yale Review and writer of numerous articles for such journals as the London Review of Books, Raritan, The New York Times, The Nation, The Hudson Review, Artforum, Cineaste, and Sight and Sound; recipient of a Noble fellowship for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the Museum of Modern Art, a Mellon Faculty fellowship at Harvard University, the Weiner Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Missouri, and Hewlett-Mellon and Bogert grants for released time at Sarah Lawrence College. SLC, 1983-

Malcolm Turvey

Courses: First-Year Studies: The Aesthetics and History of Film, Editing and the Long Take

B.A., M.A., University of Kent. Ph.D., New York University. Specialization in film and philosophy, film theory, European avant-garde film, film and Modernism, classical Hollywood genres, film and emotion. Editor and writer for October; co-editor of Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts (Routledge, 2001) and Camera Obscura/Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (University of Amsterdam Press, 2003). Essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1997), Freud’s Worst Nightmares (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings (Blackwell, 2005). A book, Film and Skepticism, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2007. Currently co-writing with Richard Allen a book Against Film Theory: Cinema and Humanistic Understanding, due to be published by Blackwell in 2008, and also working on a book on European avant-garde film of the 1920’s, The Filming of Modern Life, for the Octoberbook series. SLC, 2000-