People
General Inquiries:
email: [email protected]
Fall 2026 office hours by appointment during the following times:
| Monday - 11:00a-12:00p |
| Tuesday - 1:00a-3:00p |
| Wednesday - 1:30-2:30p |
Leadership
Alice Lovejoy
Specialties
Film and media history and historiography; East European film, literature, and cultural history; Nonfiction and experimental film and literature; Geopolitics and political economy of media; Media technologies and materials; Transnational media histories; Film criticism and filmmaking
Meyer Weinshel
Specialties
Modern Yiddish Literature and Culture; German & Austrian Jewish Culture, 18th Century-Present; Translation, Migration, and Multilingualism; Endangered Languages & Language Revitalization; Queer Studies; Archival Studies and Practice
Staff
Daniel Aufmann
Specialties
Film History; Silent Cinema; Feminist Film Studies; Social Impact of Film and Literature; Genre Studies; Archival Film Curation and Programming; Cinephilia and Fan Studies; Politics of Taste; Canons and Canonicity