Ron Gregg

Ron Gregg writes and teaches about queer cinema (both Hollywood and experimental), classical and contemporary Hollywood, and the impact of globalization, digital technology, and the pandemic on recent Hollywood film.  He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2021), a collection of 31 original essays on the history, theory, and global dimensions of queer cinema.   He coedited a special issue on adaptation and appropriation for Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media (2020) and edited a dossier on the New American Cinema Group in 1960s Europe for Framework (2022), based on a conference he co-organized at the Università degli Studi di Torino.  Recent articles include “The Patronage of Jerome Hill and the Curating of 1960s American Experimental Work in Europe,” “The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins,” “The Video Work of M. Lamar: A White Book for Decolonizing Queer White Fantasia on Black Bodies and Sexuality,” "Fashion, Thrift Stores, and the Space of Pleasure in 1960s Queer Underground Film,” and “Sanitizing the Beatles for Revolution: Music, Film, and Fashion in 1960s A Hard Day’s Night.”

Ron Gregg regularly teaches courses on American experimental film, queer cinema, sexual modernity and censorship in the work of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, and global blockbuster cinema.  Before moving to Columbia in 2017, he taught at Northwestern, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, St. Cloud State University, the University of Chicago, and Yale, where he co-organized the conferences on “Postwar Queer Underground Cinema, 1950-1968” and “Secrets of the Orient: Costume, Movement, and Duration in the Cinematic Experience of the East” and co-organized the film series “Six Lesbian Filmmakers/Six Queer Films,” which brought six leading lesbian filmmakers of the last thirty years to campus.  He has also curated film and video programming for the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the South African Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the University of Chicago Lesbian and Gay Studies Project.