Robert Rosen
Rosen is an educator, critic and preservationist who specializes on issues of media and historical memory. After receiving degrees from Rutgers University in political science and Stanford University in history, he taught in the history departments at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining UCLA's Department of Film and Television in 1974. From 1975 to the present, he has also served as Founding Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and from 1993-1998 served as Chair of the Department of Film and Television.
Rosen has spoken at scholarly, public, and professional meetings in more than twenty nations on subjects related to film criticism, media history, and curatorship. He has published widely in the field of media preservation and has guided the growth of the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a small study collection to the world's largest university-based holding of original film and television materials. As a preservationist and historian, he has occupied many positions of leadership in the field. |