Michael Renov, Ph.D.

Professor
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs

213.740.3335
renov@usc.edu
LUC 209

Michael Renov’s teaching and research interests include documentary theory, autobiography in film and video, video art and activism, and representations of the Holocaust.  Conducting a non-fiction film and television course, Dr. Renov is the author of Hollywood’s Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology and The Subject of Documentary, editor of Theorizing Documentary, and co-editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices and Collecting Visible Evidence.

In 1993, while Editor-in-Chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Dr. Renov co-founded Visible Evidence, a series of international and highly interdisciplinary documentary studies conferences. In 2005, he co-programmed the 51st annual Robert Flaherty Seminar, a weeklong gathering of documentary filmmakers, curators, and educators, creating 20 screening programs and filmmaker dialogues on the theme “Cinema and History.”

In addition to curating documentary programs around the world, he has served as a jury member at documentary festivals including Sundance, Silverdocs, and Brazil’s It’s All True.