Paula J. Massood is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College and in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at The Graduate Center. She was Acting Coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program during Fall 2007.   She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University.
 

She is the author of Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (Temple Univ. Press, 2003) and the editor of The Spike Lee Anthology (Temple Univ. Press). Her articles on African American Cinema, the City and Film, and other topics have appeared in Cinema Journal, African American Review, Literature/Film Review, Cineaste, and a number of collections on African American Film, the City and Film, film adaptation, and Hollywood violence. She is also the Theater/Film subject editor for African American National Biography (Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming 2008).
 

She is currently working on a visual history (photography, film) of Harlem.