PRESIDENCY:

DOMITOR
Scott Curtis (2011)
Department of Radio-Television-Film
Northwestern University
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
USA
tel: 847-491-2249
email: scurtis@northwestern.edu

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SECRETARY AND DOMITOR BULLETIN:

DOMITOR
c/o Priska Morrissey (2011)
email: priskamorrissey@gmail.com

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 TREASURER AND SUBSCRIPTIONS:

DOMITOR

Kaveh Askari

English Department  9055

Western Washington University

516 High Street

Bellingham, WA 98225-9055

U.S.A.
email:ktaskari@gmail.com

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

Roland Cosandey (Switzerland) (2011)
email: roland.cosandey@ecal.ch
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Philippe Gauthier (Canada) (2014)
email: philippe-2.gauthier@polymtl.ca
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Matthew Solomon (USA) (2011)
Email: solomon@mail.csi.cuny.edu

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Vanessa Toulmin (UK) (2011)
email:  fairground@sheffield.ac.uk

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Gregory Waller (USA) (2014)
Email: gwaller@indiana.edu
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Joshua Yumibe (UK) (2014)
email: jy20@st-andrews.ac.uk

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FULL BIOS:

PRESIDENCY

Scott Curtis (PhD, Iowa) is Associate Professor of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. His areas of expertise include early German cinema and the early uses of motion pictures for scientific and medical research. These interests are combined in his forthcoming book, The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany (Columbia University Press). He has also published essays on early sound technology, the history of the MPPC, and early film theory in such journals as Film History, Cinema et Cie, and montage/av.



SECRETARY AND DOMITOR BULLETIN

Priska Morrissey is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Rennes 2 (France). Her areas of expertise include early French cinema, the history of professions in the film industry, the history of film techniques, and the art of lighting. Her dissertation (2008) examined the profession of cinematography in France from 1895 to 1926. She has also published Historiens et cineastes, rencontre de deux écritures (Paris, 2004), on the status and function of historians as motion picture advisers.



TREASURER AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

Kaveh Askari received his PhD from the University of Chicago; he is currently Assistant Professor of English at Western Washington University. His research and teaching interests include silent film, nineteenth-century visual culture, Iranian cinema, and experimental cinema. He has recently published articles on 1890s magic lantern performance and on Mesmerism in 1910s cinema. He is currently working on a study of the pictorial art tradition in American silent cinema and editing a special journal edition on early cinema in the Middle East.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Roland Cosandey teaches in the Cinema Department at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (Switzerland) and is also a practicing historian. He co-edited the first two proceedings of the Domitor symposia and is one of two recipients of the Prix Jean Mitry awarded in 2006 by the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. His research focuses particularly on the early years of cinema in Switzerland, the question of archives, and historiography. Recent publications include a contribution to a book on Emile Cohl to be published in September 2008 (Pascal Vimenet, ed., Editions de l'Oeil, Paris) and to the first volume of a regional filmography, Neuchâtel, Canton Pictures: Neuchâteloise Filmography, vol 1, 1900-1950 (Aude Joseph, ed.)


Philippe Gauthier is a Ph.D. candidate at the Université de Lausanne (Switzerland) and the Université de Montréal (Canada) where he teaches cinema history. His doctoral work focuses on film historiography. He is particularly interested in editing in early cinema (Cinéma & Cie and The Griffith Project Vol. 12 with André Gaudreault) and is the author of a book on this subjet: Le montage alterné avant Griffith. Le cas Pathé (L’Harmattan, 2008). An updated English version of this book will be published in 2012 by Columbia University Press, in collaboration with André Gaudreault. His articles have been published in French, English, German and Portuguese. He has published several essays on early cinema in Film History: An International Journal (2009), International Journal of Comic Art (2010), Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture (forthcoming), 1895 – Revue d’histoire du cinéma (forthcoming) and animation: an interdisciplinary journal (forthcoming). He received the DOMITOR Graduate Student Writing Award in 2008.

Matthew Solomon is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he coordinates the master’s program in Cinema and Media Studies. He has published on magic and early cinema in Cinema et Cie, Theatre Journal,Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, and KINtop, and curated the “Magic in Film” programs for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in 2006. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2009, forthcoming) and editor of Méliès’s Trip to the Moon: Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination (State University of New York Press, forthcoming).


Vanessa Toulmin is  Professor in Early Film and Popular Entertainment at the University of Sheffield and Director of the National Fairground Archive held in the University Library. With Martin Loiperdinger she coordinated the International Network on Local Films and programmed the Crazy Cinematograph project for Luxembourg and Wider Regions Capital of Culture in 2007. With the British Film Institute she curated the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection and has published widely in the fields of nineteenth-century popular entertainment and early cinema, including The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film (London: British Film Institute, 2004) and  Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection (London: British Film Institute, 2006).  With Simon Popple, she is founder and editor of the Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture (published by Routledge) and co-founder of the Visual Delights series of conferences held triannually at the University of Sheffield.


Gregory Waller is Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. His books include Main Street Amusements: Film and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930, which won the Theatre Library Association award and the Katherine Singer Kovacs award from the Society for Cinema Studies, and Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition. His current projects include Japan-in-America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century, a study of the representation of Japan in motion pictures and other commercial media in the United States, 1890-1915, and Adventures in 16mm, a history of 16mm and non-theatrical cinema in the 1930s-1940s, which includes a chapter on exhibition outside American movie theaters in the mid-1910s.


Joshua Yumibe is a Lecturer of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He has published essays on the Davide Turconi and Josef Joye film collections, and most recently on color theory and design in silent cinema in the journals Film History and New Review of Film and Television Studies. He is currently preparing a manuscript for Rutgers University Press titled Moving Color: On the History of Color in Mass Culture, Modernism, and Silent Cinema. With Paolo Cherchi Usai, he is the project coordinator of the Davide Turconi Film Frame Collection, which is being preserved in conjunction with the George Eastman House, the Cineteca del Friuli, and the Giornate del Cinema Muto.