Gaylyn Studlar, 1952-2026
Professor Studlar served as program director and department chair of Film, Television, and Media from 1995 to 2008. As Chair, Studlar expanded the department through the launch of the Screenwriting Program and interdisciplinary academics. Studlar's academic work focused on feminist film scholarship, with publication topics ranging from Orientalism, masculinity, to girlhood in cinema.
Learn more about Gaylyn's impact from WashU's tribute.
Hubert I. Cohen, 1930-2024
Professor Cohen taught in the Department of Film, Television, and Media and the Residential College from 1985 up until his passing in 2024. Over the years, he taught courses and wrote on a number of other film directors such as Harold Lloyd, Frank Capra, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Michael Curtiz, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Fuller, Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francois Truffaut, Satyajit Ray, Wim Wenders, and Werner Herzog.
Read his obituary here.
