Film History Faculty

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–

BA, MA, University of Kent, UK. PhD, New York University. Author of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s (MIT Press, 2011). 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). Editor and writer for October. Author of numerous articles on film theory, the philosophy of film, avant-garde film, and film and modernism. Currently working on a book about Jacques Tati, modernism, and comedy. Winner of a residential fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center (2011-2012). SLC, 2000–