J.D. Connor

J.D. Connor is an Associate Professor and holds The Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Family Chair in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession and The Studios after the Studios: Neoclassical Hollywood, 1970–2010. He received his PhD in from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining USC in 2016, he was on the Art History and Film & Media Studies faculties at Yale and the Visual & Environmental Studies and English faculties at Harvard. His research and teaching focus on the art and industry of contemporary Hollywood. He currently writes the City of Industry column for the Los Angeles Review of Books.