Mia Mask

Mia Mask, associate professor of film at Vassar, received a Ph.D. from New York University. Before coming to Vassar in 2000, she taught film studies at The College of Staten Island-CUNY, graduate media studies at The New School, and film history at Tufts University, where she was a multicultural teaching fellow. In the spring of 2003, she was a visiting professor of film studies at Yale University. She has twice been a visiting scholar at New York University. Mask teaches African American cinema, documentary film history, horror film, feminist film theory, African national cinemas, and genre theory. Formerly an assistant editor and regular contributor at Cineaste magazine, Mask has written film reviews and covered festivals for IndieWire.com, The Village Voice, Abafazi: Simmons College Journal, Film Quarterly, Time Out New York, Brooklyn Woman, and The Poughkeepsie Journal. Her criticism was anthologized in Best American Movie Writing, 1999.