BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MA, Princeton University. Author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium and of numerous articles for the London Review of Books, Raritan, The Yale Review, The Nation, The Hudson Review, Sight and Sound, and other publications; 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 other awards. SLC, 1983–

MA in Cinema Studies, New York University. PhD in Film and Television, UCLA. The author of more than 80 scholarly articles and more than 100 academic papers, “Dr. T” has devoted himself to film-TV publication as editor-in-chief of both Journal of Film and Video (1991-96) and Cinema Journal (1997-2002). His anthology, More than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2004. He teaches film courses at The City College of New York (CUNY) and online graduate seminars for National University. Prior, he was director of the BFA Program at Florida State University's College of Film and Television, chair of the Division of Cinema-Television at Southern Methodist University, and chair of the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. He has taught a variety of film-TV history, theory, and production classes at UCLA, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the University of California-Santa Cruz. He received the University Film and Video Association’s Teaching Award (2009) and the Georgia State University Outstanding Teacher Award (1998). SLC, 2011—

BA, MA, University of Kent. PhD, 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 Framework, Millennium Film Journal, Film Studies: An International Review, Artforum, Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1997); Freud’s Worst Nightmares (Cambridge, University Press, 2003), The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings (Blackwell, 2005), and European Film Theory (Routledge, 2008). Book Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2008. Currently working on a book on European avant-garde film of the 1920’s, The Filming of Modern Life, for the October book series. SLC, 2000-