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About the presenterThomas Grochowski
Tom Grochowski has published on topics ranging from Woody Allen, Sex and the City, the Marx Brothers, and web sites devoted to the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Recent publications include articles on Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, and most recently, an auto-ethnographic essay on the Violent Femmes’ debut LP, for the collection Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity:The Adolescentia Project. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at St. Joseph’s University, New York, where he teaches American Literature, film, and media. He is currently on the MAPACA advisory board and serves as Film Studies area co-chair. He earned his PhD from New York University’s Department of Cinema Studies; he also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, where he studied with Allen Ginsberg. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and a Havanese dog nicknamed “Zuko.”