Education
PhD, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University
MA, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University
BA, English and Film, University of Notre Dame
Courses Taught
- English/Film Studies 383: History of Animation
- English/Film Studies 380: Special Effects
- English/Film Studies 876: Media Historiography
- English/Film Studies 380: Trash Cinema
- English/Film Studies 290: Introduction to Film Studies
- Film Studies 690: Classical Hollywood Cinema
Teaching Interests
- Exhibition and theatrical architecture
- American film history
- Spectatorship
- Film and visual theory
- History of technology
- Cultural history
- Animation
- Special effects
- Horror film
Selected Publications
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J. (2021, December). Bombed Pasts, Burning Futures: Notes on Demolition and Exhibition. Framework, 62(2).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J. (2021, May). Technologies of Blackness: Aldo Tambellini, Psychedelia, Widescreen, Media. Cultural Critique, 112.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J. (2021, March). Tasteful Networks of Attention: Language, Listening, Meaning, and Art House Exhibition. The Oxford Handbook on Cinematic Listening. Oxford University Press.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J., & Grusin, R. A., eds. (2020, December). Ends of Cinema. University of Minnesota Press.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J. (2018, September). The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture. Oxford University Press.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J., & Groening, S. (2016, October (4th Quarter/Autumn)). Afterword, Objects, Exhibition, and the Spectator. , 28(3).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J., & Groening, S. (2016, October (4th Quarter/Autumn)). Objects, Exhibition, and the Spectator - Special issue of Film History. , 28(3).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J. (2016, October (4th Quarter/Autumn)). Smoke and Mirrors: Cigarettes, Cinephilia, and Reverie in the American Movie Theater. Film History, 28(3), 85-113.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J. (2012). In the House, in the Picture: Distance and Proximity in the American Mid-Century Neutralized Theatre. World Picture, 7, "Distance", 1-18.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, J. (2012). The Hues of Memory, the Shades of Experience: Color and Time in 'Syndromes and a Century'. Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive, 104-113. New York and London: Routledge.