Tom Lamarre joined CMS faculty in Fall 2020 from previous posts at McGill University and Duke University. It is a homecoming for Lamarre: he has a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from UChicago that he received in 1992. Furthermore, he has recently returned to his dissertation, with the aim of turning it (along […]
By Amy Skjerseth / CMS PhD Candidate Maria Belodubrovskaya began teaching in the Cinema and Media Studies department in 2019, but 2020 is her first year in residence at UChicago. She joined CMS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was Associate Professor in the Department of Communications Arts. She is the author of Not […]
By Amy Skjerseth Currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies, Rebecca West began teaching at UChicago in 1973, long before courses or university spaces were devoted to the study of cinema. “That cinema could be the object of serious […]
By Amy Skjerseth Marc Downie wears a number of hats. He’s a lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies and in Media Arts and Design. He’s a world-renowned artist—part of OpenEndedGroup, along with collaborator Paul Kaiser—who has had commissions from the Centre Pompidou, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and other institutions, and has worked with such […]
By Jennifer Wild It is with profound sorrow that the Department of Cinema and Media Studies mourns the passing of Robert Bird on September 7, 2020 after a nine-month battle with colon cancer. Even before joining the department as a full faculty member in 2012, Robert would regularly cross-list his classes with CMS, including “Narratives […]