KATE HEARST is a cultural and film historian. Since 2011, Hearst has been teaching film as well as gender, race, and sexuality studies at various New York-based colleges, including Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, and Brooklyn College. She has appeared on CNN’s “History of the Movies,” writes regularly for Film International, and advises the web-based series Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP). She earned both a PhD in American history and an MFA in film from Columbia University.