Elizabeth Alsop is assistant professor and director of Communication and Media at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, and faculty in the Film and Media Cultures Certificate Program at the Graduate Center. At SPS she regularly teaches courses on film history, women and cinema, and film and television storytelling. Her essays have appeared in scholarly journals such as Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Studies, The Journal of Film and Video, Adaptation, and Narrative, as well as outlets including The LA Review of Books, Public Books, and The Atlantic. Her second book, on the films of Elaine May, was recently published by the University of Illinois Press.