Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown) 
Caetlin Benson-Allott is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Georgetown University, and the editor of Cinema Journal. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing.
James Leo Cahill (Toronto) 
James Leo Cahill is an assistant professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His first book, Cinema’s Copernican Vocation: Zoological Surrealism and the Early Films of Jean Painlevé, is forthcoming in 2018 from the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently a visiting professor at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is general editor of Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.
Francesco Casetti (Yale)
Francesco Casetti is the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Humanities and Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. His most recent book, The Lumiére Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come, is a study of the reconfiguration of cinema in a post-medium era.
Mary Ann Doane (Berkeley)
Mary Ann Doane is the Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. A leading figure in the study of gender in film, she is the author of Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis and The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, and the Archive.
André Gaudreault (Montreal)
André Gaudreault is a professor of Art History and Cinema Studies at the Université de Montréal, where he is director of GRAFICS. He is co-author, with Philippe Marion, of The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age.
Michael Gillespie (City College of New York)
Michael B. Gillespie is an associate professor of film in the Department of Media & Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York (CUNY).
Jean Ma (Stanford)
Jean Ma is an associate professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Her most recent book is Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema.
Amy Villarejo (Cornell)
Amy Villarejo is a professor of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She has published widely in cinema and media studies with a focus on feminist and queer media, including most recently Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire. She was recently named the first faculty director for the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.