Dr. Dimitrios Latsis

Ph.D. Film Studies, University of Iowa.

M.A. Contemporary Cinema Cultures, King's College London.

B.A. Film and Video, Columbia College Chicago

Dimitrios Latsis is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the School of Image Arts of Toronto Metropolitan University where he teaches in the Film Studies and Film + Photography Preservation and Collection Management programs. He received his PhD in Film Studies from the University of Iowa and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Data Curation at the Internet Archive where he served as film archivist. His work has been funded by the Smithsonian Institution, CLIR and the Mellon Foundation among others. He has published widely in the fields of American Visual Culture, historiography and theory and cinema and archival studies. He is currently co-editing an anthology on documentaries about the visual arts in the 1950s and 60s, and writing a monograph the historiography of American cinema during the early and silent years.