Education

2012 Stanford University, B.A.
2014 University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. 
2020 University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D.

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Courses Taught

World Cinema
Film Directors
Women Directors
Global Media Cultures

Career Specialties

Naomi DeCelles is a film historian and translator with interests in historiography, archive studies, media theory, and feminist and Indigenous media studies.

Professional and Community Activities

DeCelles has written about the history of film and moral panics, the seed rematriation movement and deep time, and on issues related to the work of film scholar Lotte H. Eisner and the disciplinary formation of film studies. Her publications include Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive (UC Press, 2022), articles in JCMS, Screen, and QRFV, and chapters in Uncanny Histories in Film and Media Studies, Handbook of Feminist Film History and Mediating Deep Time.

DeCelles has worked in film programming and curated screening series on a range of topics, including the LA Rebellion, Hitchcock, trans media, and German film from the Weimar era to New German Cinema. 

Honors and Awards

SCMS Translation Award (2020)
SCMS Women’s Caucus, Graduate Student Writing Prize, Honorable Mention (2020)
Mellon-Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2019)
Albert and Elaine Borchard European Studies Fellowship (2017)
Cinema and Media Studies Department Fellowship, UCLA (2012)
Comparative Literature Prize for Excellence, Stanford University (2011)