Teaching                             Joan Grossman

University of Missouri - Kansas City (2009-present) Visiting Professor of Film & Media Arts, Communication Studies Department. Courses cover theory and practice:

1. •Advanced Production - narrative projects in HD
   

2. •Producing & Distribution - advanced level course with independent projects
   

3. •Intermediate Production - narrative and documentary projects
   

4. •Documentary Production
   

5. •Mass Media, Culture and Society - critical theory/cultural studies (cross-listed with Women’s Studies)
   

6. •Documentary Theory & History
   

New Jersey City University Jersey City (2007-08) Visiting Professor of Film Studies, Department of Media Arts.  Courses explored topics through an interdisciplinary approach to practice, theory and history:

1. ✴Development of Film 1 - film history and theory from the birth of cinema to the 1940s
   

2. ✴Development of Film 2 - film history and theory from the 1940s through the 1970s
   

3. ✴Italian Cinema - post-war cinema from Neorealism to the 1990s
   

4. ✴Film in the 80s & 90s - a seminar on breakout world cinema
   

5. ✴The Independents - the evolution of American independent film since 1959
   

Emerson College Boston (2003-04)  Visiting Artist & Professor of Film. Department of Visual and Media Arts.  Courses:

1. ✴Film 1 – introductory 16mm film production, non-sync, black and white film production, emphasizing theory, aesthetics, and practical skills
   

2. ✴Film 2 – sync sound 16mm film production, emphasis on narrative filmmaking, integrating technical, logistical, and creative practices
   

3. ✴History & Theory of Documentary – graduate seminar
   

European Graduate School Saas-Fee, Switzerland (2001-04) Assistant Director of Film for the Media & Philosophy program.  Co-teacher, teaching assistant and online moderator for MA and PhD courses with leading filmmakers:

1. ✴“Chantal Akerman:  Crossing Cinematic Borders”
   

2. ✴“Memory and History in Documentary Film” with Claude Lanzmann
   

3. ✴“Peter Greenaway:  Philosophy of Cinema”
   

4. ✴“The Nature of Cinema” with Agnes Varda
   

    Conferences - Lectures - Presentations

Fordham University (2008), Guest lecture, “The Question of the Public,” Media Studies graduate seminar on public broadcasting.

EFA Gallery, New York (2006).  “Meditations on Amnesia” lecture/performance on filmic representations of war exploring the compulsion to war and its virtualization.

New York University, Institute for Research on Trauma & Violence (2006). “Trauma and Film” presentation on the nature of violence and violation in filmmaking, and the notion of “traumaturgical” representation, with excerpts from original work.

New York University (2004).  Guest Lecturer in Avital Ronell’s seminar on haunted spaces in literature and philosophy.  Presentation of video, “Accidents of Memory,” a journey through traumatic sites in Eastern Poland.

University of Cambridge, UK (2005).  “Delusion, Dementia & Atrocity”  video presentation at “Cinema, War, and a Society of Spectacle” conference at the Center for Research on Art, Social Sciences, and Humanities.  Paper requested for book.

European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland (2004).  Keynote speaker for Claude Lanzmann’s Honorary Doctorate.

Invited speaker:  92nd Street Y, New York; Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC; Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York; Berlin Film Festival, Forum for New Cinema; Viennale Film Festival, featured panelist, Metrokino, Vienna; Hong Kong Intl Film Festival; Film Festivals in San Francisco, Washington, Miami, San Diego; Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, NY;  Vancouver Film School;  University screenings & discussions.