Professor

Office Location

Performing Arts
Martire Center W215
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Sidney Gottlieb, PhD has been teaching at Sacred Heart University since 1976. A multiple recipient of Sacred Heart’s scholarship award, he has published numerous essays and reviews on both literary and film topics, and is currently editing a volume of Orson Welles’s writings and interviews. He is also an active musician, currently playing with Ghost Radio (with his colleague Greg Golda) in Connecticut and the duo Sonia and Sid in the Boston area.

He is the longtime editor of two scholarly journals, the Hitchcock Annual (Columbia University Press) and the George Herbert Journal. His edited books include Hitchcock on Hitchcock, volume 1 and volume 2 (Univ. of California Press), Framing Hitchcock (Wayne State University Press; coedited with Chris Brookhouse), Hitchcock: Interviews (Univ. of Missouri Press), Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City (Cambridge Univ. Press), Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts (Indiana Univ. Press, co-edited with James N. Gilmore), and the forthcoming Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (John Libbey Press/Indiana Univ. Press, co-edited with Donal Martin).

Expertise

  • Film History
  • Literature & Film
  • Media History & Theory

Degrees & Certifications

  • PhD, Rutgers University
  • MPhil, Rutgers University
  • MA, Rutgers University
  • BA, Bates College

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate courses in critical approaches to media studies, film history, film comedy, and special topics courses on individual directors, like Hitchcock and Welles. Graduate courses in critical approaches to media and film analysis.