David Sterritt is editor-in-chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, contributing writer at Cineaste, and film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is author or editor of 15 books and his writing has appeared in Cahiers du cinéma, The New York Times, Hitchcock Annual, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art History, and many other publications as well as numerous edited collections. He was film critic of The Christian Science Monitor for almost 40 years, serving two terms as chair of the New York Film Critics Circle, ten years as chair of the National Society of Film Critics, and ten years as co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation.