Robert Rosen

Educator, Critic, Preservationist and Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Rosen has spoken at scholarly, public, and professional meetings in more than twenty nations on subjects related to film criticism, media history, and curatorship. He has published widely in the field of media preservation and has guided the growth of the UCLA Film and Television Archive from a small study collection to the world's largest university-based holding of original film and television materials. As a preservationist and historian, he has occupied many positions of leadership in the field. These include: Founding Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute; the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives; member of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress; member of the Stanford Theater Foundation and the Geffen Playhouse.