Dr. Jennifer Fleeger
Jennifer Fleeger is the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English. In 2009 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, where she began studying film music and sound, work that led to her first book Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera and Jazz. Since then, she has focused on the relationship between voices and technology, writing Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine and co-editing an anthology on media ventriloquism, all published by Oxford University Press. She teaches courses on American film history, genre, theory, and film music and is currently writing on the aquamusicals of MGM swimming star Esther Williams. Dr. Fleeger also works with Crescendo, a community-based, tuition-free music program, pairing undergraduates with elementary school children to create silent films with live scores.
Dr. Alex Lykidis
Alex Lykidis is an Associate Professor of Film Studies in the English Department. He has taught at Montclair since 2009. His research interests include global cinema, contemporary capitalism, multiculturalism and political filmmaking traditions. His work has been published in journals such as Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, the Journal of Greek Media and Culture and the Journal of Modern Greek Studies and anthologies such as A Companion to Michael Haneke, The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film and Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe. He is the author of Art Cinema and Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He teaches courses on contemporary global cinema, focusing on alternatives to Hollywood such as art cinema, independent cinema and national cinemas.