Professor of Practice in the Arts in Cinema and Media Studies, was the co-organizer for the festival Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel.
the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and Visual Arts, published Elegy for Theory (Harvard University Press, 2014) and a new edition of The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory (Routledge, 2013). He received a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for his project Overlay, a collaboration with visual artist Victor Burgin.
the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, English Language and Literature, and the College, was posthumously honored with the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award for Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno (University of California Press, 2011).
the William H. Colvin Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Art History, Comparative Literature, and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Cinemetrics Across Boundaries: A Collaborative Study of Montage, a project bringing together visiting scholars in order to produce an examination of this online repository of film data and its role in creating an emergent subfield of cinema studies.
