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Professor Stuart Liebman
Department of Media Studies

Stuart Liebman is Professor of the Department of Media Studies At Queens and also coordinate the Film Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. He received his B.A. in Social Theory from Brandeis University in 1970. As a Woodrow Wilson Fallow, he earned a M.A. in Fine Arts from Boston University and then completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU in 1980. He has taught in Queens College since 1973. His primary areas of specialization include early European and post-war German Cinema. Notable publications include his his special issue of the critical journal October devoted to the work of the modernist filmmaker Alexander Kluge which served as the catalogue for his retrospective exhibition touring in the United States and Canada in 1988. His special issue of October devoted to Helke Sander's film about the mass rape of German women after World War II won the American Association of Publisher's award as the best issue of a scholarly journal in 1995. He has also written extensively on early French filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein, translating many of their text in English.

His interests in the Holocaust is of long standing, and he is now engaged in teaching and research about representation of the Holocaust in cinema. He has already published published on Polish and Czech films, and is planning to conduct more archival research in Poland next Fall. He is also organizing a major international conference on the topic to be he is at the CUNY Graduate School March 1,2, and 3 1999.