English

Saul Kutnicki

Senior Lecturer in English

Contact


sdkutnicki@noctrl.edu

Office Location

Kiekhofer Hall, 216

Office Hours

MWF 9:30-11:00. Kiekhofer Hall, 216

Profile Picture

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 a “Rhetorical Bestiary." His most recent publication is a video essay, which will appeared in October 2024 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 is 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 van.  

 

 

 

Selected Scholarship

Kutnicki, S. (2024). Closing Time at the People Shop: A Saturn Dealership in Ruins. Screenworks, 1, 10 min, 37 seconds video essay. https://www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-15-1/closing-time-at-the-people-shop

Kutnicki, S. (2024). Encountering Material Rhetorics in the Ruins of Saturn. Western Journal of Communication, 88(4), 802–820. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2324384

Kutnicki, S. (2018). Wayfinding media and neutralizing control at the shopping mall. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 35(5), 401–419. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2018.1490024

Gordon, J. G., Lind, K. D., & Kutnicki, S. (2017). A Rhetorical Bestiary. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 47(3), 222–228. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48544062

(Book Review) Kutnicki, S. D. (2015). Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture. Studies in the Humanities, 42(1-2), 231+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A441400780/LitRC?u=anon~4fb4c6c5&sid=googleScholar&xid=12ebc10d

(Book Review) Kutnicki, S. (2013). Reading the Social Life of Kitsch Aesthetics. Cultural Studies, 28(1), 174–176. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2013.826266

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

ENG 110 Writing for College and Beyond