Phone: 213 821 1291
E-mail: atrope@earthlink.net
Office: ASC G36
Office Hours: TBA

Alison Trope received her Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California in 1999. She has taught in the Critical Studies department in the School of Cinema-Television and currently teaches a range of courses in the Annenberg School for Communication. Her research and teaching interests include media history, media exhibition, popular culture, gender representation and museum studies.

Her book Where is Cinema?: Film Exhibition from the Museum to the Home Theater will be published by University of Minnesota press in 2007. She also serves on the Editorial Board and as Book Review Editor for The Moving Image, a journal published in conjunction with the Association of Moving Archivists. Prior to teaching at Annenberg, she worked as Program Director at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where she put on public lectures and seminars as well as worked on various public relations activities tied to the annual Academy Awards. She has also worked as an Associate Producer at the Labyrinth Project, co-organized an international conference on interactive media, and wrote the catalogue for an accompanying new media exhibition. Prior to returning to pursue her MA and Ph.D. in film and television, she received her BA from Vassar College in 1990 and worked at MTV Europe in London.