Kristi McKim is Professor of English and Film Studies at Hendrix College, where she was awarded the Charles S. and Lucile Esmon Shivley Odyssey Professorship, honored as the 2014-15 United Methodist Exemplary Professor, and nominated for the CASE U.S. Professors of the Year Award. A Film Matters Advisory Board member, she has published the books Love in the Time of Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change (Routledge, 2013); her essays appear in The Cine-Files, Bennington Review, Camera Obscura, Studies in French Cinema, Senses of Cinema, the edited collection For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion In and Outside of the Classroom, and forthcoming in The New England Review. Her current project stretches academic film study into lyrical essays on pedagogy and film experience. She lives in Little Rock with her husband and two sons.
