Advisory Board Member. For Elizabeth Bullock, movies are a “gateway drug” to a life of the mind. As an adjunct instructor, Beth teaches cinema, art history, and humanities courses at the City Colleges of Chicago and film studies at Dominican University. Beth’s Hitchcock course surveys the oeuvre and philosophy of the director from Blackmail through Marnie. She earned her Humanities M.A. from the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies program. Her thesis, “Identifying Ingeborg: Practical Magic in Cinematic Melodrama,” combines several research interests including motherhood, magic, and photography. Also a photographer, her academic work includes comedy, game studies, feminist film theory, and social justice.

Advisory Board Member. Since the publication of his groundbreaking book Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes, Steven has become a key figure in re-appraising auteur theory. He’s also appeared on screen in the documentary The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style and in featurettes on home video releases of To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest. In addition to presenting at NYU’s Hitchcock Centennial Conference, he has lectured on the director at The American Museum of the Moving Image, Film Forum and at the New World Stages in New York City. Since 2011, Steven has been teaching film studies and screenwriting at Mercy College in Westchester County, New York.

Advisory Board Member. A true leading light of Hitchcock scholarship, Sidney edits The Hitchcock Annual and is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. His several publications on Hitchcock include two volumes of Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews (University of California Press, 1995; 2015), Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2003); The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15 (co-edited with Richard Allen; Wallflower Press, 2009), and Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (co-edited with Donal Martin; John Libbey Publishing/Indiana University Press, 2021).

President & Showrunner. An independent scholar and prolific writer known online as the Alfred Hitchcock Geek, Joel is also an award-winning filmmaker and editor of The Hitchcockian Quarterly. His lecturing career took off in 2010, when he was invited twice to New York to speak to audiences following performances of The 39 Steps on Broadway. He’s also produced and directed three critically-acclaimed documentary film series projects: How to Watch Hitchcock (2018-19), Freak the Geek (2018-current) and Alfred Hitchcock, Master of the Surreal (2019-current). His latest film, Spellbound by L’Amour Fou, won “Best Short Documentary” at the Medusa Film Festival and “Best Documentary Short” at the Best Shorts Competition. Joel and his partner, Christy La Guardia, live with their beagle, Charlie, in Olympia, Washington.

Advisory Board Member. Elisabeth is an award-winning playwright living in New York. Her plays include The Night the Ocean Met the Bay (Published by Next Stage Press); The Showman and the Spirit (Winner of the 2017 Stanley Drama Award); Hotbed (Epic Play Readings, Project Y Theatre; Reading, Jersey City Theatre Center) Bodega Bay (Produced by The Abingdon Theatre Company; Winner of the 2013 Jerry Kaufman Award in Playwriting; THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014 and THE BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014, Smith and Kraus) and many more.

Elisabeth has been a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek blog, covering a wide range of themes inspired by The Master. An expanded version of her talk at Hitchcon ‘21, The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock, appears in the current volume of The Hitchcock Annual.

Advisory Board Member. Pat grew up inside most of the revival movie theaters in Manhattan. After winning the Student Emmy and the regional Student Academy Award for his short film “Equilibriumness,” he transplanted to California. He worked several years as a First Assistant Film Editor, notably on HBO tele-features. Pat was an Executive Assistant at Walt Disney Imagineering for 23 years.

The Hitchcock “hobby” has been *filling* Pat's time for all of his adult life, and thanks to the Internet, he found his people. He is honored to be a contributing editor and creative consultant for Joel Gunz’s Alfred Hitchcock Geek Facebook Page, and an associate producer for Good Evening: an Alfred Hitchcock Podcast, where he is referred to as “The Man Who Knows Exactly Enough.”

Advisory Board Member. Walter Raubicheck is professor of English at Pace University in New York. He is the co-author with Walter Srebnick of Scripting Hitchcock (2011), and they both edited Hitchcock’s Re-released Films: From Rope to Vertigo (1991). More recently, he edited Hitchcock and the Cold War: New Essays on the Espionage Films, 1956-1969 and will debut The New Norman, a play about the making Psycho at HitchCon ‘22. In addition to his work on Hitchcock, he has published essays on twentieth-century authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Dashiell Hammett, and G. K. Chesterton.

Maria is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin (Cornell University Press, 2017) and has published articles on film aesthetics, history, theory, and Russian film in Cinema Journal, Film History, Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, Slavic Review, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, KinoKultura, and several edited volumes.

Doug serves as an adjunct professor of film studies and humanities at several universities in the Intermountain West. He’s also the editor of, and the author of two essays for, The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration (Scarecrow, 2011). Cunningham is also the editor of Critical Insights: Alfred Hitchcock (Salem, 2017), for which he also wrote an essay on The Birds. He was also producer and director of Listen, Darkling, a short fiction film produced as a complex tribute to Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Theresa L. Geller is the author of The X-Files (Wayne State UP, 2016) and editor of Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark (Duke UP, 2022). She teaches film and television studies at San Francisco State University. Dr. Geller was recently a Scholar-in-Residence with the Beatrice Bain Research Group at UC Berkeley and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University. Before relocating to the Bay Area, Dr. Geller served as Associate Professor of Film Theory and History at Grinnell College. Her scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly, Camera Obscura, Rhizomes, The Velvet Light Trap, Biography, and Senses of Cinema. She has also contributed essays to volumes such as The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory, East Asian Cinemas, Documenting the Visual Arts, Lady Gaga and Popular Music, Gender After Lyotard, and There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond.

Christina Lane is the bestselling, Edgar®-Award winning author of Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock. She is Professor of film studies in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami, where she teaches courses in film history, gender, and directors. Other publications include the books Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break and Magnolia as well as articles in Cinema Journal, Feminist Media Histories, the Quarterly Review of Film and Television, Cine-Files, and The Journal of Popular Film and TV. She contributed essays on Alfred Hitchcock's collaborators Joan Harrison and Alma Reville to the volumes Authorship and Film (Routledge 2002) and Hitchcock and Adaptation (with Jo Botting, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She provides commentary for such outlets as the Daily Mail, CrimeReads and AirMail, and has been a featured guest speaker at the Film Forum, on NPR and on Turner Classic Movies.

Henry K. Miller is the author of The First True Hitchcock, published by University of California Press in 2022. His other books are The Essential Raymond Durgnat (as editor) and DWOSKINO: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin (as co-editor). He is a critic for Sight and Sound, and has written for publications including the Times Literary Supplement and MUBI Notebook. He has taught film at the University of Cambridge. He teaches film at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge.

Tony's new book Hitchcock: The Storyboards is to published in September 2023 by Penguin Random House which explores the visual design of The 39 Steps through to Torn Curtain. An updated version of The Young Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Master Class will also be published in October, 2022, focusing on Hitchcock's influence on a new generation of content creators.

Mark is Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies at Christopher Newport University and former CNU provost. He’s the author of Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films (2019), "Hitchcock's Textured Characters in The Skin Game" (Hitchcock Annual 21) and  Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock (2016). His forthcoming monograph, Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Storied Film is scheduled for 2023 publication.

Michelle is an MA student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, with research interests in feminism, queer theory and the issues of temporality that inflect each. She has presented her scholarship at the undergraduate SCMS conference and the ACM Student Film Conference and Festival, where she was awarded first prize for her essay “Women’s Time: Female Subjectivity in Maya Deren’s Witch’s Cradle.” She earned her BA in Film and Visual Culture from Grinnell College.

Karen is Professor in Communication, as well as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at Central Connecticut State University. In 2021, she coedited and published two books: Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness with Renée T. White (2021) and Mediated Terrorism in the 21stCentury (2021) with Elena Caoduro and Karen Randell. In 2019, The Handmaid’s Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance across Disciplines and Borders (with Janis L. Goldie) and New Perspectives on the War Film (with Clémentine Tholas and Janis L. Goldie) were published. Ritzenhoff has also been teaching as Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University in Spring, 2022.

Sebastian teaches film studies in Warsaw, Poland, and is co-producer of the podcast Foreign Correspondents: Deeper into Hitchcock. His presentation will focus on Hitchcock's adaptation of Polish ex-patriot Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent in light of today’s national and international crises.

Evangeline is an M.A. scholar in Film Curation. As a freelance film programmer at Leeds International Film Festival, she specialises in programmes that promote queer readings and queer representation in horror. She has had a lifelong love of Hitchcock, referencing the lauded Hitchcock Geek in her undergraduate dissertation. She hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Marc is Professor Emeritus in the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Holland College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University and author of Alfred Hitchcock’s Silent Films (2004; McFarland), Hitchcock’s Objects as Subjects: The Significance of Things on Screen (2016; McFarland) and, most recently, Discovering Musicals: A Liberal Arts Guide to Stage and Screen (McFarland; 2019). His forthcoming book about Hitchcock’s effect on audience emotion, is due out June 2023. He and his artist wife, Sarah Riley, are retired and live on the Outer Cape of Massachusetts with their mini-schnauzer Gracie.

Polly Thompson has worked as an editor and writer in Vancouver, Ottawa, Belleville and Toronto, first in newspapers and then in medical periodicals and research institutes. In 2015 and 2016 she presented at international conferences on Virginia Woolf and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Since 2017, her personal research interest has been Alfred Hitchcock. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Contact: pollyjthompson@gmail.com