Sterritt, David 1944-

PERSONAL:

Born September 11, 1944, in Bay Shore, NY; married Virginia Grubb, September 14, 1968; divorced; children: Jeremy, Craig. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Boston University, B.A., 1967; New York University, M.A., 1992, Ph.D., 1994.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—Baltimore, MD. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA, film critic and special correspondent, 1968-2005. Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY, adjunct professor, 1985-89, associate professor, 1993-99, professor of theater and film, 1999-2005, professor emeritus, 2005—. Columbia University, adjunct film professor, 1989-2005; College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, adjunct assistant professor, 1992; New York University, adjunct assistant professor, 1993; National Critics Institute, member of faculty at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 1994-2002; Maryland Institute College of Art, adjunct professor, 2005—; Syracuse University, member of visiting faculty, 2006—; lecturer and public speaker on film, culture, and criticism. National Public Radio, film critic for All Things Considered, 1979-80; film critic and commentator for several television and radio networks; New York Film Festival, member of selection committee, 1988-92; juror at other film festivals in the United States and abroad.

MEMBER:

Film Critics International Federation, National Society of Film Critics (vice chair, 2004; chair, 2005—), Online Film Critics Society, New York Film Critics Circle (vice chair, 1986, 1999; chair, 1987, 2000), Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation (cochair, 1999-2005).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from C.W. Post Research Committee, Long Island University, 1993-94, 1995-97, 1997-98, and Columbia University Seminars, 2005.

WRITINGS:

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1993.

Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1998.

(Editor) Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1998.

The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1999.

(Editor) Robert Altman: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2000.

(Editor) Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 2004.

(Editor, with Lucille Rhodes) Terry Gilliam: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2004.

Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2005.

Contributor to periodicals, New York Times, Cahiers du cinema, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Denver Post, American Film, Film Comment, Chronicle of Higher Education, Cineaste, Mosaic, Hitchcock Annual, and Cinema Scope. Editor in chief, Boston after Dark, 1969-70.

Author's works have been translated into Greek, Chinese and Korean.

Sterritt's collected film criticism is housed in the Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.