Chris Holmlund is Professor Emerita of Cinema Studies, Women’s/Gender/Sexuality Studies and French at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where she taught film studies (and other courses, too) from 1988-2017 and chaired the Cinema Studies Program from 2000-2010. She also taught film at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), the University of Stockholm (Sweden) and, earlier, at Louisiana State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In 2011 she was elected President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) (full term 2009-2015). She was Arts and Science Excellence Professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville from 2011 to 2017. In 2014 she was Neilson Research Professor of Film at Smith College; in 2015 Hedda Andersson Research Professor at the University of Lund (Sweden). In 2019 she was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to work at the Universities of Reading and Leeds (United Kingdom).

Chris’s interests in film and media are broad. She publishes on US independent film, action film, film genres, Swedish film and media, French/francophone film, Latin American/Latinx film and video, global and transnational film, and documentary. She taught in all these areas as well as on feminist, queer and trans film and theory. Her books and anthologies include: Female Trouble (2017, Arsenal Pulp Press), The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur (2014, as editor, Wallflower/Columbia University Press), American Cinema of the 1990s (2008, as editor, Rutgers University Press), Contemporary American Independent Cinema: From the Margins to the Mainstream (2005, as co-editor with Justin Wyatt, Routledge), Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (2002, Routledge) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (1997, as co-editor with Cynthia Fuchs, University of Minnesota Press). She serves on the editorial boards of Celebrity Studies, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, and Atlantis: Revista de la asociación española de estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. In 2016 she co-edited an issue of the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema on “Sexuality in Scandinavian Cinema.” She has published over 60 essays and articles.

Chris is currently working on an anthology, Action Cinema Since 2000 (co-edited with Lisa Purse and Yvonne Tasker (Bloomsbury/BFI), and a monograph, Action Cinema, Action Stars (Routledge).