Film Matters has been moving and shaking this year (if we do say so ourselves!), teaming up with new colleges and universities to expand opportunities for undergraduate authors/editors. We are pleased to announce our latest partnership, with Hendrix College, who will now be responsible for managing our online content here.
Under the expert guidance of Kristi McKim, who has been a longtime member of our advisory board, not to mention the guest editor of several dossiers (both online and in print) over the years, undergraduate students at Hendrix College will serve as joint authors and editors of the Film Matters site. Equally exciting is the mentorship that Hendrix students will provide to their fellow undergraduate authors across the globe – hands-on applied learning in action, as drafts are exchanged between editors and authors. Hendrix students will learn crucial publishing and project management skills on the job. An institution that prioritizes engaged learning, Hendrix College offers a structure within which this Film Matters opportunity beautifully fits as an experience of active learning and pre-professional training.
Kristi McKim, now our Online Editor, is Professor and Chair of English/Film and Media Studies at Hendrix College, where she was honored as the 2014-15 United Methodist Exemplary Professor, nominated for the CASE US Professors of the Year Award, and recently recognized with the 2019-20 Carole Herrick Award for Excellence in Academic Advising. Studying global ecocinema through a phenomenological approach, she has published the books Love in the Time of Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change (Routledge, 2013), with essays ranging from the scholarly to personal in journals such as Camera Obscura, Studies in French Cinema, Senses of Cinema, Bennington Review, New England Review, and Bright Lights Film Review. Emerging from a fascination with trees, her current research explores film as natural history.
One of the “Most Innovative Liberal Arts Colleges” (U.S. News & World Report) and one of the nation’s forty “Colleges that Change Lives,” Hendrix College, located in Conway, Arkansas, offers a major and minor in English with a Film and Media Studies track. Chaired by Dr. Joshua Glick, Hendrix’s Film and Media Studies Program positions film, television, and emerging media within aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts. Through taking a wide breadth of courses, students learn to interpret as well as contribute to their media environment through essays, videographic criticism, digital storytelling, curated exhibitions, and long-form filmmaking projects. Hendrix’s English Department also offers tracks in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, which—in tandem with Film and Media Studies coursework—prepare students to read and write a variety of critical and creative forms.
Starting in September 2020, undergraduate students looking for online publication opportunities will now work with Hendrix College, where the newest editorial board looks forward to their submissions. Likewise, filmmakers seeking interview or review coverage. Please email submissions or emails of interest/introduction to:
- FilmMattersOnline AT hendrix.edu
Hendrix and Film Matters look forward to working with you on future online reviews and articles!
