About

Alice Lovejoy is a film and media historian and critic. She is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Moving Image, Media, and Sound at the University of Minnesota, where she also directs the Center for Austrian Studies. Born on the North Shore of Boston, she earned a B.A. in Documentary Studies from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Film Studies and Comparative Literature from Yale University.

 

Lovejoy’s work traces the little-known histories that tie film and media to unexpected industries, institutions, and cultures. Her first book, Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military, was awarded the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize in Slavic Languages and Literatures and longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award. Her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, was named one of Science News’ ten favorite books of 2025, and has been featured in, among others, Grist, Unthinking Photography, and Brown Alumni Magazine, as well as on numerous podcasts and radio programs. Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Howard Foundation, and a Distinguished Fellowship at the Science History Institute. In 2025, she was awarded the Medaile Artis Bohemiae Amicis (Friends of Czech Art Medal) by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

 

Lovejoy has also worked as a filmmaker and curator in New York and Prague, and her writing has appeared in venues such as The Nation, Reverse Shot, and Film Comment, where she is a former editor. She lives in Minneapolis.