Topic: Videographic Film & Media Criticism.
Biography:
Christian Keathley is Professor in the Film & Media Culture Department at Middlebury College. Keathley received his Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa, and his M.F.A. in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English and Film Studies from the University of Florida.
Keathley is the author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (Indiana University Press, 2006), and co-author (with Jason Mittell) of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image (caboose, 2016). His current research project concerns the presentation of film scholarship in an audio-visual format. He has taught a course on the subject for a number of years, and is the co-recipient (along with Jason Mittell) of two NEH grants to lead summer workshops for film/media faculty that instruct them in how to produce such work. He is also a founding co-editor of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, the first disciplinarily-sanctioned journal dedicated to publishing audio-visual scholarship.