Dan Streible

Dan Streible is Martin Scorsese Chair and an associate professor of cinema studies in the Tisch School of the Arts and its Institute for Critical Studies in the Arts. He is a past director and associate director of the department’s master’s program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation.

Since 1999, he has organized the biennial Orphan Film Symposium, a four-day international gathering of archivists, scholars, curators, and artists devoted to the study and preservation of all manner of neglected moving images. He teaches courses in film history, curating, archival research, and documentary, and has published research on nontheatrical film, newsreels, movie exhibition, early cinema, amateur works, and moving image preservation. His publications include the book Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (2012, co-edited with Devin Orgeron and Marsha Orgeron), named Best Edited Collection by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Streible also authored the books Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (2008), and Emile de Antonio: A Reader (2000, co-edited with Douglas Kellner). In 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named him an Academy Film Scholar. He has organized and curated fifteen editions of NYU’s Orphan Film Symposium, including at the Library of Congress, Museum of the Moving Image, Eye Netherlands Filmmuseum, Cinémathèque française, and UCLA Film and Television Archive. He serves on the Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board.