Thomas Delapa
Adjunct Faculty
MA, New York UniversityMA, Tisch School of the ArtsMA, University of ChicagoBA, University of Colorado
Academic/research concentrations: U.S. and European film history, Hollywood studio history, silent cinema, U.S. cultural studies, film theory and criticism, screen technologies, film preservation, modern visual culture.
Professional Experience
As a lecturer and adjunct faculty member, Thomas Delapa has developed and taught undergraduate film studies courses at such large universities and colleges as the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Denver, Regis University (Denver), Nevada State College, and the Colorado Film School. He is currently on faculty at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the College for Creative Studies (Detroit), teaching both film studies and visual culture courses. He has regularly written on film, drama, and TV for such U.S. print and Web publications as the Chicago Tribune, Alternet.org, the Conversation, the Journal of Film & Video, Boulder Weekly (CO), and Pulitzer/Lerner newspapers (Chicago). From 1998 to 2008, he was Film Curator at the Denver Art Museum, where he programmed, managed, and hosted a popular series of classic and contemporary 35mm and 16mm films.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
His film reviews have been quoted in such publications and websites as Rotten Tomatoes, AltWeeklies.com, the New York Public Library, the Daily Beast, Salon.com, Smithsonian Magazine, Turner Classic Movies, Hong Kong Daily, Flixster.com, Wikipedia, Vulture.com, Film.com, as well as in the Journal of Film and Video and “Named and Shamed: The World’s Wittiest Movie Reviews.” He also has been film critic for such National Public Radio affiliates as WBEZ-FM in Chicago and KUVO-FM in Denver.