Thomas Leitch (B.A. Columbia, Ph.D. Yale) is director of the concentration in Film Studies. He teaches undergraduate courses in American film and graduate courses in literary and cultural theory. Since 1989 he has reviewed mystery and suspense novels for Kirkus Reviews, where he is Senior Editor. He has published articles on Dickens, Henry James, Donald Barthelme, and Hollywood genres from musicals to whodunits to slasher films. His books include What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation, Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games, Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography, The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock, Crime Films, and Perry Mason. A past president of the Literature/Film Association, he is currently working on Literature versus Literacy: Why Adaptation Study Matters .
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