Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Tim Greiving is an arts journalist and historian in Los Angeles who specializes in film music. He is the author of John Williams: A Composer's Life, the first biography of the

Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of the film-focused memoirs Through a Screen Darkly and the upcoming Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema, as well as the fantasy series The Auralia Thread. In

Jon Lanthier is a writer, filmmaker, and musician. He's published several pieces of arts criticism; directed an award-winning documentary; and led workshops on antiracist nonprofit communications. He believes that the

Samina Najmi is a professor of English at California State University, Fresno. Her memoir-in-essays, Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time, won the Aurora Polaris Award in