The Criterion Collection
Kristin Ross is a professor of comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of numerous books, including Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995) and Communal Luxury.
Kyung Hyun Kim is professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coeditor of The Korean Popular Culture Reader and the author of Virtual Hallyu:...
Alex Zucker’s translation of Jáchym Topol’s latest novel, The Devil’s Workshop, received an English PEN Award for Writing in Translation and will be published by Portobello Books in 2013. In 2012, he received a literature fellowship from the National Endowment...
Sam Di Iorio has written about Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut, and Luc Moullet. He teaches French cinema and French literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of the...
Steve Erickson is the author of Shadowbahn, Zeroville, and eight other novels that have been translated into a dozen languages. He is the chair of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches literature and film.
Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent film production is The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2015). His collection Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature was...
Thomas Rimer is a professor of Japanese Literature and Theater at the University of Pittsburgh and has been published widely on various aspects of Japanese theater, literature, and cultural history.
Dudley Andrew, professor of film and comparative literature at Yale and author of What Cinema Is!, is the biographer of André Bazin and has written two books on French cinema and culture of the 1930s. He has also written on...
Paul Coates is a professor emeritus of film studies at Western University, Ontario. Previously, he taught at Georgia, McGill, and Aberdeen, and his books include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon’s Gaze (1991), Lucid Dreams: The Cinema...
John Simon has written for more than fifty years on theater, film, literature, music, and the fine arts for such publications as the Hudson Review, the New Leader, the New Criterion, the National Review, New York magazine, the New York...