Robert Bird

Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College.
The aesthetic practice and theory of Russian modernism; the symbolist tradition in cinema and new media; poetry and cinema; contemporary theories of aesthetic mediation; the history of Soviet cinema; Andrei Tarkovsky.

James Chandler

Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, Committee on the History of Culture.
The Romantic movement; the study of lyric poetry; the history of the novel; relations between politics and literature, history and criticism; the Scottish Enlightenment; modern Irish literature and culture; the sentimental mode; cinema studies; and the history of humanities disciplines.

Xinyu Dong

Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College; affiliated faculty at the Center for East Asian Studies.
Early and silent cinema; international film genres, especially comedy, melodrama, and opera film; history and theories of play; film exhibition and cinephile cultures; Chinese-language cinemas; visual cultures in Late-Imperial and Republican China; global and regional (East Asian) image exchange.

Tom Gunning

Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College.
International early and silent cinema; American avant-garde cinema; Hollywood film genres; film and narrative theory; classical film theory; film and still photography; Japanese cinema; early cinema and the experience of modernity; directors' styles (especially, Lang, Griffith, Von Strernberg, Hitchcock, Godard, Bresson, Borzage); Film historiography; Film exhibition and spectatorship; Modernist cinema of the twenties (Soviet, French, and German).

Judy Hoffman

Lecturer, Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Department of Visual Arts.
Documentary cinema and video; video and film production; ethnographic film and issues of representation and cultural ownership; cinema verite and the participant camera; The Guerilla Television Movement; political film and video; Chicago Film History.

Phil Kaffen

Lecturer, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and the College.
Japanese and East Asian cinema, film and image theory, romanticism, aesthetic philosophy, philosophy of ethics, Japanese literature, cultural politics, and criticism, violence, film genre, media sociology, cinema and urban space.

James Lastra

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of English Language & Literature, and the College.
American cinema after 1925; avant-garde film; sound in film and other media; history and theories of technology and representation; French film culture of the 20s and 30s, especially as it relates to Surrealism, colonialism, and ethnography.

David Levin

Addie Clark Harding Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, and the College.
German Cinema (Weimar and New German Cinema); theories of spectacle; melodrama; performance theory; intersections of cinema, theater, and opera.

Rochona Majumdar

Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College.
History of gender, marriage, and family in India; modern Indian cultural and political history, modern Bengal, Indian cinema, postcolonial history and theory.

Richard Neer

William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies and the College
Ancient concepts of wonder and grace, the theory and history of connoisseurship, the sculpture of Charles Ray, and questions of evidence, criteria and judgment in some films by Malick, Mizoguchi and others.

Noa Steimatsky

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College.
Italian cinema, French cinema; postwar culture; landscape and space studies; classical film theory; image theory; narratology & poetics; modernism & realism.

Yuri Tsivian

William Colvin Professor, Department of Art History, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and the College;
History of film and film styles; film and Russian/Soviet art; filmmakers Dziga Vertov; Sergei Eisenstein; old versus new media; gesture and performance; film editing: history, theory and practice.

Rebecca West

William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College.
Italian and Italian-American cinema; film and literature; Italian film theory; feminist film theory; issues of gender and stardom.

Jennifer Wild

Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College. Affiliated faculty in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Open Practice Committee.
History and theory of modernism and the avant-garde; experimental film; French cinema; the history of exhibition; and the cinema’s relation to the other arts.