Associate Professor of Art & Art History and and, by courtesy, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Karla Oeler

Associate Professor of Art & Art History and and, by courtesy, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Karla Oeler teaches in the Film and Media Studies Program in the Art & Art History Department. Her research and teaching interests are film history, theory and criticism. Recent courses include Theories of the Moving Image, Science Fiction, and a seminar on the films of Robert Altman. She is the author of A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in numerous forums including Cinema Journal, The Journal of Visual Culture, and Slavic Review on a range of topics including works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Parajanov, and Jean Renoir.