Q&A and Conversation with Hitchcock Scholars Sidney Gottlieb and Jeff Hughes

Sunday, Jun. 15 2025, 11:00

• Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT. His long-standing research and teaching interests are in literature and film studies. His publications include essays on numerous 17th-century writers, including George Herbert, John Donne, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell, and a variety of filmmakers including Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock. He is the editor of the Hitchcock Annual (Columbia University Press) and has edited two volumes of Hitchcock—On Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews (University of California Press) and most recently co-edited Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock's Masterpiece Then and Now (John Libbey/Indiana University Press).
• Jeff Hughes holds multiple degrees from the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, focusing his research on American political cinema, the movie musical and the films of Sidney Lumet. He is currently in the American Studies program at Rutgers-Newark. During his 20-year absence from academia, he authored four plays and two musicals, and founded Boardwalk Theatre Company, an organization dedicated to after-school education in underserved communities such as Asbury Park, NJ. He was the recipient of the 2009 Richard Rodgers Awards, administered by the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of DaBearsBlog.com, the nation's leading Chicago Bears website, which is celebrating its 20th season in 2025.

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