Cinema Studies
Education
B.A., University of North Carolina; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.
Biography
Dan Streible joined the NYU Cinema Studies faculty as associate professor in 2006. He teaches courses in film history, archiving, curating, and documentary and serves as associate director of the MIAP program. His publications include the books
Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (U of California Press, 2008) and
Emile de Antonio: A Reader (2000, co-edited with Douglas Kellner). Streible has published research on the history of movie exhibition, early cinema, amateur filmmaking, nontheatrical film, and moving image preservation, in anthologies and in journals such as
Cinema Journal, Film History, and
The Velvet Light Trap. He serves as a founding member of the editorial boards of
The Moving Image and the
Journal of E-Media Studies. Since 1999, he has organized the biannual
Orphan Film Symposium, bringing together archivists, academics and artists to save, screen and study neglected artifacts from the history of film and television. Streible was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (2004-06) and appointed to the National Film Preservation Board (2005-09).
