PROFESSOR ALISON GRIFFITHS

Alison Griffiths received her Ph.D. In Cinema Studies from New York University in 1998 and teaches media studies in the Department of Communications at Baruch College, CUNY.

She is the author of Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (Columbia University Press, 2002), winner of the Katherine S. Kovacs award for the best published book in film and media in 2003 (awarded by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies) and honorable mention for the Krazna Krausz Moving Image Book Award in 2004.  The author of innumerable articles on early cinema and television audiences, Professor Griffiths is on the editorial boards of Cinema Journal and Living Pictures.

She is completing a book (also with Columbia University Press) on a history of the spectacular view entitled Shivers Down Your Spine:  Panoramas, Museums, and the History of Immersive Technologies.  

Her research interests include nineteenth century visual culture, early cinema, museum studies, documentary film, cultural theory, and new media.

Contact:

Telephone: 646/312-3730
E-Mail: alison_griffiths@baruch.cuny.edu