Film History

The Department of Art History was featured in the July 2016 edition of the College of Letters & Science In Focus monthly newsletter.

The Department of Art History was featured in the February 2016 edition of the College of Letters & Science In Focus monthly newsletter.

Assistant Professor of English and Film, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, was featured on ten successive Canadian NPR stations to discuss Stars Wars and special effects.

The Department of Art History was featured in the April 2015 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.

On Friday April 17th, Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel gave a keynote address, “Walking Still” at the University of Chicago Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Performing Bodies: Gesture Affect and Embodiment On Screen.”

Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel will be giving the keynote address at the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies 2015 Graduate Student Conference, Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen, on Friday, April 17, 2015.

The Department of Art History was featured in the March 2015 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.

The Department of Art History was featured in the December 2014 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.

Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel’s dossier, co-edited with John David Rhodes(University of Cambridge), of four essays on the experimental filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh has been published in the film and media studies journal Screen (55.4 Winter 2014).

Molly McCourt, a graduate student in the English/Film Studies Department and a teaching assistant for ARTHIST/FILMSTD 205: History of Film I: Development of an Art, presented at the Film and History Conference held in Madison, Wisconsin.