Gregory Taylor, Ph.D.

Interim Dean and
Associate Professor of Film
Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film

Office: Dance Bldg., Rm. 1020
Tel: (914) 251-6831
Fax: (914) 251-6839
Email: gregory.taylor@purchase.edu

Dr. Gregory Taylor is an associate professor of film in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film and a member of the interdisciplinary cinema studies and dramatic writing faculties. He is a specialist in film criticism and theory and author of Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism. He has served as interim dean of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film since 2007.

Education

• B.A., 1986, University of Toronto (Canada)
• M.A., 1988, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ph.D., 1993, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Positions

• Visiting Assistant Professor, 1992–1993, Hollins College
• Assistant Professor, 1993–2000, Purchase College, SUNY
• Associate Professor, 2000–present, Purchase College, SUNY
• Interim Dean, Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film, 2007–, Purchase College, SUNY

Areas of Expertise
Film history/theory/criticism

Courses Taught
Transcendent Visions: the Spiritual on Film
The Independent Spirit in American Film
French Cinema Since 1930
Genres of Affect: Comedy and Horror
Meaning and Truth in Cinema
New German Cinema
American Avant-Garde Cinema
Italian Cinema after Neorealism
Methods of Film Criticism
Cinematic Expression I
Cinematic Expression II

Research Interests
Metacriticism, avant-garde cinema, history and theory of modernism.

Publications

Articles and Reviews

"Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order." Book Review. Canadian Journal of Film Studies 6:1 (Spring 1997), 128-131.

"The Cinema of Ontology: Sound-Image Abstraction in Robert Breer's T.Z." Wide Angle 15, No. 1 (January 1993), 44-64.

"The Cognitive Instrument in the Service of Revolutionary Change: Sergei Eisenstein, Annette Michelson and the Avant-Garde's Scholarly Aspiration." Cinema Journal 31, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 42-59.

"Beyond Interpretation: The Lead Shoes as an Abstract Film." Millennium Film Journal No.25 (Summer 1991), 78-99.

"Points of Resistance." Book Review. The Velvet Light Trap No. 28 (Fall 1991), 99-102.

Books

Art/Movies: Film Criticism and the Ascent of an American Vanguard (Princeton University Press, forthcoming)