Associate Professor in the Cinema Program, Editor of Film Quarterly Associate Professor
J. M. Tyree (Ph.D., Lancaster University) is an associate professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts and editor-in-chief of Film Quarterly (University of California Press), the oldest academic film journal in the United States. He was a Keasbey Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His research spans film criticism and critical-creative writing, including the books BFI Film Classics: Salesman (Bloomsbury), in the series on essential classic movies from the British Film Institute, and The Haunted Screen (Deep Vellum), a novella about cinema. He is also the coauthor of Our Secret Life in the Movies (with Michael McGriff, Deep Vellum), a short story collection which was named an NPR Best Book of 2014, BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski (with Ben Walters, Bloomsbury), and Wonder, Horror, Mystery (with Morgan Meis, punctum books). He has edited two film supplements as a contributing editor for New England Review (Middlebury College), the first on Terrence Malick and the second on Wong Kar Wai. Tyree has spoken at London’s National Film Theatre, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Cinematheque, has acted as a nominator for the Kyoto Prize, and has twice contributed a critic’s ballot to Sight & Sound magazine’s once-per-decade Greatest Films Poll. His courses at VCUarts include film history, film genres, and independent study projects on film criticism and critical-creative writing.
(Photo credit: VCUarts Cinema Student Jason Brown)