David Sterritt chaired the National Society of Film Critics for a decade, served two terms as chair of the New York Film Critics Circle, and cochaired the University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation for ten years at Columbia University, where he taught for some 25 years. He is also professor emeritus of theater and film at Long Island University. He is an editorial associate at Cineaste and has been editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, guest editor and chief book critic of Film Quarterly, contributing editor and film critic for Tikkun, video critic for Islands, and contributing writer at MovieMaker. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Cinema Journal, the Journal of Beat Studies, and the Hitchcock Annual, and his program David Sterritt with Films in Focus appears on WHDD and RobinHoodRadio.com each week. Before his early retirement in 2005 he was film critic for The Christian Science Monitor for almost forty years. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University, and his books as author and editor include The Beats: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP), The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (second edition Columbia UP and Wallflower Books), The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible (Cambridge UP), Spike Lee’s America (Polity), Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader (UP of Mississippi), Spike Lee’s America (Polity), Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the ‘50s, and Film (Southern Illinois UP), The B List (Da Capo), The Honeymooners (Wayne State UP), Rock’n’Roll Movies (Rutgers UP), and others. His writing has appeared in Cahiers du cinéma, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, IndieWire, Film-Philosophy, Journal of American History, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Film Comment, The Huffington Post, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Framework, Moving Image Source, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Film International, PopMatters, Senses of Cinema, Beliefnet, Cinema Scope, CounterPunch, and many other publications as well as many edited collections. He has been a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee, film critic of NPR’s All Things Considered, and a theater critic for Variety, and he has served on film-festival juries in Moscow, Vienna, Toronto, and elsewhere. He has lectured at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Harvard Film Archive. His most recent books are A Cinephile Under the Influence and Jump Cuts, Tracking Shots, and Scherzos: Writings on Film, Music, and Contemporary Culture, both from Sticking Place Books.