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.
Imperial and modern Chinese literature and culture, East Asian regional and global 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

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.

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; Chair, Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
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 at the Center for Gender Studies. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
Early American and European cinema and culture; classic and contemporary film theory; theory of the avant-garde; film aesthetics and historiography; experimental film; French cinema; and the cinema’s relationship to the other arts.