Thomas Leitch
Thomas M. Leitch (born June 23, 1951) is an American academic and film scholar, the author of several authoritative books on film studies and one on Wikipedia.
Early life
Leitch was born in
Academic career
Leitch's first academic post was as assistant professor in the department of English at Yale, from 1976 to 1983. He then had the same position at the department of English,
His fields of study are American and British literature, cultural studies, film and new media, and public humanities. He “drifted into film studies” in the 1980s and since then has taught undergraduate courses in film and graduate courses in cultural and literary theory.[2]
Reception
Times Higher Education reviewed Leitch's Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and Liberal Education in the Digital Age (2014), noting his view that the assumptions made by Wikipedia's critics about accuracy and authority are themselves open to debate. In the book, Leitch argues that Wikipedia is “an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education”.[3]
Personal life
Leitch married in 1977 and has two children.[citation needed] He is a Roman Catholic and a Democrat.[citation needed]
Selected publications
- What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1986)
- Find the director and Other Hitchcock Games (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991)
- Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1992)
- The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (New York: Facts on File, 2002)
- Crime Films (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- Perry Mason (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005)
- Film Adaptation and its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
- A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, with Leland A. Poague (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) (ed.)
- Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
- Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) (ed.)
- The History of American Literature on Film (Bloomsbury Press, 2019)
Notes
- ^ a b Thomas Leitch cv at udel.edu (University of Delaware), accessed 28 March 2020
- ^ a b THOMAS LEITCH Biography at udel.edu, accessed 28 March 2020
- ^ “Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and Liberal Education in the Digital Age, by Thomas Leitch” in Times Higher Education online, accessed 28 March 2020 (subscription required)
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