Our Contributing Writers

Deborah Allison - Deborah Allison obtained her doctorate in film studies from the University of East Anglia in the U.K. and has taught there and at University of Kent, where she wrote a thesis on Kenneth Anger.

Samara Allsop - Samara L Allsop is an Honours Graduate of Film Studies from Monash University (Australia). As well as having a Graduate Certificate ofInformation Management and Systems she has two forthcoming chapters in the series "24 Frames:'Japan & Korea' " (mid 2004) by Wallflower Press.

Tim Applegate - Tim Applegate is a poet and freelance writer in western Oregon. His poems regularly appear in various national publications. He is also a frequent contributor to the online film journals Kamera and 24 Frames Per Second.

Richard Armstrong - Richard Armstrong is an Associate Tutor affiliated to the British Film Institute. His book, Billy Wilder, American Film Realist, appeared from McFarland in 2000. He is currently writing Understanding Realism for the Bfi's Understanding the Moving Image series and Chocolate Biscuits and Italian Neo-Realism, a blend of reception aesthetics and personal memoir. He is a regular contributor to the websites Audience, Bright Lights Film Journal, Senses of Cinema and Talking Pictures, and contributes book reviews to the Times Higher Educational Supplement.

Stephen B. Armstrong - Stephen B. Armstrong is a professor of English at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. His article on Welles' Touch of Evil appears in Film Noir Reader 4 and his reviews have been featured in Film Quarterly and Film Score Monthly.

Jamie Bennett - Jamie Bennett is a prison professional and has worked in the Prison Service since 1996. He has previously written articles on a range of criminal justice issues including prison films for publications including The Prison Service Journal, The Prison Service News and Criminal Justice Matters.

Dr. Andrew C. Billings - Dr. Andrew C. Billings is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Clemson University. His research interests lie in mediated communication, often involving the intersection of gender, race, film, and sports.

Robert Castle - Robert Castle has been a regular contributor to Bright Lights Film Journal and 24 Frames Per Second. His articles have also appeared in Film Comment, Talking Pictures, The Journal of Religon and Film, and Metaphilm. He publishes a triquarterly 'zine, Film Ex, and has a regular column, "A Sardine on Vacation," in Unlikely Stories. He makes his living as a History teacher at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ.

Kevin Teo Kia Choong - Kevin is currently a MA student in the Department of English Literature at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. His main interests lie in East Asian cinemas, produced mainly in the languages of Chinese and Korean, and interdisciplinary medieval studies. After having obtained a BA with Honours from the National University of Singapore, in the discipline of English Literature, he has gone onto endeavours in editing and publishing mainly before returning to do his MA right now.

Paul Coughlin - Paul Coughlin is a Melbourne-based writer with articles appearing in Senses of Cinema, Metro and Literature/Film Quarterly, recently graduated from the School of the Literary, Visual and Performance Studies at Monash University, with a doctorate in VIsual Culture.

Sarah Crawford - Sarah Crawford is a freelance critic based in Philadelphia. She's previously been published in periodicals, including the online film journal 24 Frames Per Second.

Andrew Culbertson - Andrew Culbertson is an Administrative Judge with the EEOC in Washington, D.C. This is his first published piece of film criticism.

Daniel Mudie Cunningham - Dr. Daniel Mudie Cunningham is a widely published writer specializing in screen cultures, art and design theory. Based in the Blue Mountains, Australia, Daniel's Ph.D. was on white trash cinema (University of Western Sydney). One of his recent essays was published in The Bent Lens: a world guide to gay and lesbian film (2003). Contact Daniel at whitetrash@ozemail.com.au

Johnny DiLoretto - Johnny DiLoretto is a film critic for Columbus, Ohio's The Other Paper

Bilge Ebiri - Bilge Ebiri is a filmmaker and writer living in New York. His reviews and features appear regularly in New York magazine, Time Out New York, and Minneapolis City Pages.

Rich Elias - Rich Elias has reviewed films for twenty years. He currently contributes movie and book reviews to the Columbus Dispatch. He teaches a course on Bollywood film at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Jose Alejandro Perez Eyzell - Alejandro, a Venezuelan born in 1981, has recently been introduced to the film and theatre world. At age of 18 (sponsored by a scholarship) he studied at Waterford Kamhlaba College (an international institution in Swaziland, Southern Africa) for 2 years, where he explored modern theatre and was involved in theatre for community development projects in the region. Now, 3 years later, he has been sponsored by another scholarship to study Film and Theatre Studies at Dankook University in Seoul, South Korea; where he is undertaking first year undergraduate studies and deeply interested on Korean Film and Theatre, as well as other Oriental performing arts.

Dave Filipi - Dave Filipi is the Associate Curator of Film/Video at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.

Filipe Furtado - Filipe Furtado is a film critic based in São Paulo. His work appears regularly at Contracampo.

Tag Gallagher - Tag Gallagher's online articles can be found at http://home.sprynet.com/~tag/

Adrian Gargett, PhD - Adrian Gargett received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Warwick and an MA in Art History from London's Courtauld Institute. Research interests include philosophy / art / film / cultural theory. Notable publications include: "The Matrix: What is Bullet Time?" / "Doppleganger: Exploded States of Consciousness in Fight Club" / "X-Men: Speed Mutation" on www.disinfo.com / - "Strange Days" (Virtual Spaces) Journal of Cognitive Liberties Vol ii no.3 - "Symmetry of Death" Variaciones Borges 13/2002 - "Eternal Feminine" Parallex 25 "Having Sex" Film criticism also appears on <kamera.co.uk> Other work available Nasty / Azimute / Richmond Review / CLCWEB / 3AMMagazine. You can contact Adrian at: agargett@darleymead.u-net.com

Iwona Grodz - Iwona Grodz lives in Poland, wrote a doctoral thesis on Wojciech Has and studies film, plastic arts and literature.

Asbjørn Grønstad - Asbjørn Grønstad recently submitted his dissertation on the aesthetics of violence in American cinema, and is currently associate professor with the Department of English, University of Bergen. Having published a number of articles on film theory and on various topics within American film, Grønstad is currently preparing a study of transgressive visuality in contemporary American and French cinema."

Adam Hartzell - Originally from Berea, Ohio, Adam Hartzell now lives in San Francisco where he focuses his writing primarily on Korean Cinema. He manages the bibliography at Darcy Paquet's Korean film website, www.koreanfilm.org, where he also contributes many reviews and essays. He will have an essay about Hong Sang-soo's The Power of Kangwon Province published in 24 Frames Japan & Korea in mid-2004 by Wallflower Press.

Alexander Ives - Alexander Ives is a freelance writer and filmmaker based in South Florida. He studied film at Boston College and contributes to DVDangle.com.

Alan Jacobson - Alan Jacobson is a magna cum laude film school graduate who continues to look for genius in the mundane and teaches at the Facets Film School in Chicago, Illinois.

Dan Jardine - In the late 70s and early 80s Dan Jardine completed a variety of undergraduate degrees in English, History and Political Science before moving on to become a teacher of English Literature. A writer whose primary online affiliation with Apollo Guide (www.apolloguide.com) has been a long and fruitful one, he has also recently added his name to the long list of online bloggers (djardine.blogspot.com).

Amira J. Jarmakani - Amira Jarmakani is a student in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. She studies Arab American and Arab Women's literature and is currently working on representations of Arab women in US popular culture.

Ian Johnston - Ian Johnston is an expatriate New Zealander who's been living and teaching in Taipei since 1991. He has a M.A. in German Language and Literature from the University of Auckland, N.Z.; and throughout the 1980s he was involved in running the Film Society in Auckland.

Desirée Jung - Desirée Jung's background includes filmmaking and journalism. She's just recently finished a Master Degree of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where she will also begin a Ph.D. Degree in Comparative Literature in September.

Simon Justice

Aryan Kaganof - Aryan Kaganof is an award-winning writer and filmmaker.

Robert Keser - Robert Keser teaches English and Film at National-Louis University in Chicago. His writing appears in Daily-Reviews.com and Bright Lights Film Journal.

Kaizaad Kotwal - Kaizaad Kotwal is a professor at The Ohio State University's Theatre Department. Originally from India, the author has his B.A. in Theatre, Art, and Economics and an M.A. in Theatre. His dissertation research concerned Virtual Reality and Cyber-Technologies for Theatre and Cinema. He is also an actor, director, producer, writer and designer with over 150 credits to his name.

Arthur Lazere - Arthur Lazere, a freelance journalist for over two decades and a film buff for life, is currently publisher and editor of culturevulture.net. He is a member of the Online Film Critics Society.

Christina Lee - Christina Lee is a Doctoral candidate at Murdoch University (Western Australia) in Cinema and Cultural Studies, and teaches in these fields. Her dissertation looks at women's changing representations in contemporary youth cinema.

Adrian Martin - Adrian Martin is a film critic for The Age (Melbourne, Australia)), and the author of Once Upon a Time in America (BFI, 1998) and Phantasms (Penguin, 1994). His current projects include books on Terrence Malick, Brian De Palma, the Mad Max series and the anthology Movie Mutations (co-edited with Jonathan Rosenbaum). He is a Doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University.

Carey Martin - Carey Martin is an associate professor in communication at East Carolina University. He has published in The Encyclopedia of Communication and Information and in The Holocaust Film Sourcebook. Dr. Martin teaches courses in film and television history and in screenwriting, and his research interests are in the history of American narrative motion pictures. His professional experience includes corporate and broadcast television and digital production. He earned the M.F.A. and the Ph.D. at Florida State University.

Christopher McQuain - Christopher McQuain is a freelance writer and filmmaker living in the Portland area.

J. Thomas Morley - J. Thomas Morley's main interest lies in epistemology. Tom received his Ph.D.
in Philosophy in 1986 from the University of Tennessee (Thesis: Picturing and Thinking in Seeing: Adverbial Theories of Perception).

Jenna Ng - Jenna Ng is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at University College London.

Jens Nicklas - Jens Nicklas received an M.A. in German Literature from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. in German and American Literature and Film from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research interests include documentary film, performance art and popular culture. He is currently working on his dissertation in which he intends to explore the relationship between documentary film and postmodern theory.

Brian Owens - Brian Owens is the Founder and President of The Bubaker Awards. He studied Film at Indiana University - Bloomington. He also works as a freelance film critic.

Peter Y. Paik - Peter Paik is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. His articles on cinema have been in Religion and the Arts and on the Asian American Village @ IMDiversity.com.

Darcy Paquet - Darcy Paquet is founder and webmaster of the site Koreanfilm.org. Currently he works as the Korean correspondent for trade magazine Screen International and as English Editor for the Korean Film Commission.

Gerald Peary - Gerald Peary is a film critic for The Boston Phoenix, specializing in his weekly column, "Film Culture," on foreign, independent, revival, and documentary works. A member of the National Society of Film Critics, he has eight film books, the latest of which is John Ford: Interviews from the University Press of Mississippi.

Matthew Peters

Justin Remer - Justin Remer is an Ohio-born writer and filmmaker, currently living and studying in New York City.

Mark Richardson - Mark Richardson is an undergraduate in Philosophy at the University of Dundee. His articles have been published in various places, including Senses of Cinema (forthcoming), Spike Magazine (forthcoming) and previous issues of The Film Journal.

Fredric Rissover - Fredric Rissover studied English at the University of Cincinnati and film and journalism at the University of Iowa. He retired after 35 years on the faculty of St. Louis Community College, Meramec, where he taught courses in writing, creative writing, literature, media and film. As an adjunct faculty member he taught film history at Washington University in St. Louis. For over 20 years he has written about movies for gay publications. Currently he contributes to The Vital Voice, a gay and lesbian newspaper out of St. Louis.

Jethro Rothe-Kushel - Jethro Rothe-Kushel is a Los Angeles based freelance writer and independent filmmaker. His award-winning films have screened at venues internationally. He is currently living in Mexico City working on his latest film. More info available at jethrofilms.com.

Hyun-Suk Seo - Hyun-Suk Seo Received MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently a PhD candidate at Northwestern University. Makes experimental videos and installation works. Recently completed a doctoral thesis, “The Shock of Boredom: The Aesthetics of Absence, Futility, and Bliss in Moving Images”. Currently teaches at the Department of Theater and Film, Dankook University in Seoul, Korea

Richard Shaw - Richard Shaw is an undergraduate of Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University in England

Jason Shawhan - Jason Shawhan is a freelance writer and critic for the Nashville Rage, Opposable Thumb Films, and the Nashville Scene. His catalog for performance artist Jeffrey G. Baker's 1995 cocoonings were exhibited in the St. Mark's Position gallery in New York, and his film collective the Nashville Cinema Underground helps to bring provocative and controversial film to Middle Tennessee.

J. Alan Speer - J. Alan Speer writes for www.cinemadox.com. His work has also appeared at The Phantom Tollbooth, FilmFestivals.com, SWIM Magazine, and the Apollo Movie Guide. He is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Avi Spivack - Avi Spivack is a graduate of Wesleyan University and a self-proclaimed film-lover. This is his first contribution to The Film Journal.

Immanuel Stammelman - Immanuel Stammelman studied literature at Wits University. He is a freelance writer, currently at work on a book-length study of Kerkhof's film and video oeuvre.

Elizabeth Stewart - Elizabeth Stewart earned a PhD in comparative literature at New York University and has taught at Barnard College, Cooper Union, and NYU. Her fields of expertise include modern and post-modern philosophy and literature, post-colonial/diasporic and psychoanalytic theory, interrelations of literature and religion, and cultural studies. Her publications have centered on the work of Jacques Lacan. Dr. Stewart is proficient in Italian and German, reading knowledge in Spanish and French.

Justin Stoeckel - Justin earned his Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in Film Studies from the University of Delaware in December 2002. His studies have included: Surrealism in Film, Film Theory and Criticism, European Film History and American Film History. He has written and directed several short films, plays and performed stand-up comedy at various clubs in Delaware and New York. He continue to write film essays in addition to screenwriting.

Craig Tepper - Craig Tepper is a screen and television writer whose credits include an Edgar-nominated episode of Law & Order. He is also a past contributor to Film Quarterly and Film-Philosophy. He earned his B.A. at Cal and an M.A. in Film from SFSU.

Peter Tonguette - Peter Tonguette was Staff Critic for The Film Journal from 2002 to 2005.  His writing has also appeared in Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, Contracampo, and 24fps Magazine.

Hunter Vaughan - Having graduated from the University of Southern California and received a Master's Degree from the University of Sussex, Hunter Vaughan is currently working on a doctoral thesis in French cinema and philosophy at the University of Oxford.

Ian Waldron-Mantgani - Ian Waldron-Mantgani is the film critic for UKCritic.com

Liliana Wendorff - Liliana Wendorff's interests are broad. She is interested in Hispanic cultures and literatures, especially as promulgated by new forms, such as film. Liliana received her Ph.D. in Spanish-American Literature in 1995 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Thesis: La aventura de escribir: Parodia y metaficción en La tía Julia y el escribidor de Mario Vargas Llosa).

June Werrett

Philip Wood - After studying film at University, Philip worked at a few film production companies for a couple of years, before setting up his own digital production company 2nd Century Cinema. Their first feature "Goldfish Memoirs" is nearing the end of post-production. Philip is currently producing a gallery film installation and seeking finance for a range of innovative feature projects with 2CC.

Marc Yamada - Marc Yamada is a PhD candidate in Japanese literature and culture at UC-Berkeley. He is currently conducting dissertation research on postmodern fiction and film in Tokyo with the support of a Fulbright grant.

Frederick Zackel - Frederick Zackel teaches literature, writing, and the humanities at a Midwestern public university.

Beth Zdriluk - Having graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Theatre & Film Studies and Psychology from McMaster University, and completed the first year of a doctoral program in Drama at the University of Toronto, Beth Zdriluk is currently completing an MA in Cinema Studies at New York University. Following this, she will return to the PhD program in Toronto in order to complete a doctoral thesis concerning performance in theatre and film.