Videographic Criticism Faculty : Film Studies : UMass Amherst

Barbara Zecchi

Department Head
specializes in videographic scholarship, feminist film theory, aging studies, adaptation theory, Iberian and Latin American cinemas.

Barbara Zecchi is the Program Director for Film Studies at UMass Amherst.

Ariel Avissar

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Ariel Avissar is an instructor for the Graduate Certificate in Videographic Criticism.

Johannes Binotto

Program Designer | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism
(Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland)

Johannes Binotto conceived and designed the Graduate Certificate in Videographic Criticism in collaboration with Barbara Zecchi, Program Director

Catherine Grant

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Professor Grant specializes in film authorship, world cinema (particularly that of Latin America), and digital film and media studies

Evelyn Kreutzer

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Professor Kreutzer specializes in film criticism

Colleen Laird

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism
(University of British Columbia, Canada)

Professor Laird specializes in Japanese cinema, and Asian film studies more broadly

Dayna McLeod

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Professor McLeod specializes in LGBTQ+/feminist film studies

Alan O'Leary

Instructor Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Alan O’Leary is Associate Professor of Film and Media at Aarhus University. He has published video essays in venues including [in]Transition, 16:9 and ZFM, and his Men Shouting: A History in 7 Episodes was awarded best video essay in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Practice Research Awards 2024. Among his books is a study of the 1966 film classic The Battle of Algiers (Mimesis, 2019), and his ‘Manifesto for a parametric videographic criticism’ appeared in NECSUS in 2021.