Board of Advisors

An independent scholar known worldwide as the Alfred Hitchcock Geek, Joel is an award-winning filmmaker, president & host of HitchCon and publisher of The Hitchcockian Quarterly. His fascination with the Master of Cinema commenced at age 12 and never stopped, eventuating in hundreds of scholarly articles, chapters and essays. As a film essayist, Joel adds his personal history to his scholarship, blending the two with special effects that re-examine the principles of subject-object dualism. His latest such film, Spellbound by L’Amour Fou, won Best Short Documentary at the Medusa Film Festival. He is also producer and director of three essay film series: How to Watch Hitchcock (2018-19), Freak the Geek (2018-current) and Alfred Hitchcock, Master of the Surreal (2019-current). Joel and his partner, Christy La Guardia, live with their beagle, Charlie, in Olympia, Washington.

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.

Steven DeRosa is the author of Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes. He’s appeared on-screen in the documentary Viaggio nel Cinema in 3D: Una Storia Vintage, which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, 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. Since 2011, Steven has been teaching film studies and screenwriting at Mercy College in Westchester County, New York. Beginning with his popular course on Hitchcock, Steven partnered with his local Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to host discussions for both students and the theater audience. He’s also hosted film series on Orson Welles, Hollywood Westerns, and Screwball Comedies.

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 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), Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual (co-edited with Christopher Brookhouse; Wayne State University Press, 2002); The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15 (co-edited with Richard Allen; Wallflower Press, 2009), and, most recently, Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (co-edited with Donal Martin; John Libbey Publishing/Indiana University Press, 2021).

Elisabeth Karlin 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.

A dedicated film buff, 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 HitchCon21 on the Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock, appears in the current volume of The Hitchcock Annual.

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 himself in California, where 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.”

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 Rereleased Films: From Rope to Vertigo (1991). Recently he edited Hitchcock and the Cold War: New Essays on the Espionage Films, 1956-1969. 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.