Noelle Griffis

Noelle Griffis is an Associate Professor of Film & Media at Marymount Manhattan College, where she has taught for eight years. She holds a PhD in Film & Media Studies from Indiana University and a Cinema Studies M.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Noelle’s research on American film history, urban media production, and alternative filmmaking practices has recently appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Black Camera, and edited collections including The Routledge Companion to Media and the City and Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film. She is currently launching a collaborative oral history project, “Reframing Women’s Work: Organizing Women’s Independent Film & Video, 1970s-90s”, with a symposium and exhibition at Vassar College. At Marymount, Noelle enjoys teaching a range of courses including Intro to Cinema Studies, Styles & Genres in Film & Television, Contemporary World Cinema, Cinema & the City and American Independent Cinema.