Saul Kutnicki

Saul Kutnicki teaches our courses in film & screen studies and writing. He has projected film for commercial theaters, programmed film series and library exhibits, and assisted in the preservation, exhibition, and archiving of historic moving image collections. Saul has published essays and book reviews in the Western Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Cultural Studies, and Studies in the Humanities. He also co-edited a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly, which featured essays collectively known as the “Rhetorical Bestiary." His most recent publication is a video essay, which will appear later this year in a winter edition of the online journal Screenworks. Saul received his Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington, where he was recognized as a Jesse Fine Fellow by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. His research at IU focused on the material culture of cinema, the “stuff” of motion picture history—film stocks, theaters, promotional ephemera, and production sites. He is currently working on a project that examines the intersecting cultural history of movies, live television broadcasts, and the American shopping mall. When Saul isn’t teaching, you can find him playing tennis, cooking and baking, or taking a road trip in his vintage JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) van.  

Courses Taught

Film 100 Introduction to Film and Screen

Film 490 Introduction to Film Theory and Criticism

MWRT 500 Introduction to Professional Writing and New Media