Deirdre Boyle
Deirdre Boyle is Professor Emeritus in the School of Media Studies at The New School. Her book Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998) marked the end of an important chapter in her life reporting on early portable video and the activists and artists who seized upon the medium as a powerful tool to speak back to power and create new forms of representation. Fales Library & Special Collections holds Boyle’s “Guerrilla TV Archive,” which includes research materials that she amassed for her writing on video history and preservation. She has written or edited eight books, including most recently Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2023), as well as numerous reviews, essays, and interviews. She has taught in the United States, Russia, Turkey, and Hong Kong, and has programmed independent film and video series for cable and public television, museums, universities, public libraries, and international traveling exhibitions. She has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Asian Cultural Council. (2024)
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