Jennifer Wild & Matt Hauske

Jennifer Wild is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College at University of Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on the history and theory of modernism and the avant-garde; experimental film; French cinema; the history of film exhibition; and the cinema’s relation to the other arts. She is the author of The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Matt Hauske is Adjunct Professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago’s Department of Cinema and Media Studies and is currently working on a book project concerning Hollywood westerns and American culture, leisure, and ideology after World War II. His research focuses on popular cinema and material culture, the culture industry and ideology, and theories of play. He can be reached at matt.hauske@gmail.com