Kate Rennebohm is the Jill Beck Professor of Film and Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Lawrence University. She completed her Ph.D. in Film and Visual studies at Harvard University, teaching as Visiting Lecturer in the department for two years before undertaking a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University. Specializing in the historical intersections of moving image media and philosophy, she is working on a book manuscript titled Reviewing the Self-Image: Ethics, Politics, and Moving Image Media, which argues for “self-viewing” as both a structuring phenomenon of moving image media in the 20th century and one that introduced new frameworks of ethical thought and political praxis. Her writing has been published in Critical Inquiry, October, Screen, Moving Image Review and Art Journal, Cinema Scope, and different edited collections.
Additionally, Rennebohm is a Faculty co-leader of the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium. Finally, in her capacity as a critic, she was the co-host of the popular Twin Peaks-focused podcast The Lodgers, which featured guests from Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Sight & Sound, and Film Comment, and is currently co-hosting The Akerman Year, a podcast exploring the full oeuvre of Chantal Akerman.
She teaches both introductory courses in film and media history, theory, and aesthetics, as well as more specialized seminars, including "Cinemas of Resistance: A History of Global Political Filmmaking" and "Black Cinemas of North America."
