Patrice Petro is Professor of Film and Media Studies, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Presidential Chair in Media Studies. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of thirteen books, including, most recently, Uncanny Histories in Film and Media (forthcoming, 2020), The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender  (2017), Teaching Film (2012), Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s (2010), and Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (2002). She served two terms as President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the largest U.S. professional organization for college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.