Biography
Founder & Director of Research
Professor Jeffrey Klenotic, Ph.D. is the founder of Mapping Movies and is responsible for guiding its scope and direction.
Jeff Klenotic is a Professor of Communication Arts at the University of New Hampshire. He completed a B.A. in Speech Communication with a concentration in rhetoric at the Pennsylvania State University and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied film and cultural studies.
At UNH, he spearheaded the creation of a new B.A. degree program in Communication Arts at the University’s urban campus in Manchester, and he has been the recipient of his college’s awards for Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research and Scholarship. He has also won two UNH Faculty Scholars Awards, one for his work to map the development of film exhibition in New Hampshire, and a second for his research on the state’s silent-era women film exhibitors.
Internationally, he is known as a founding member of the History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception (HoMER) research network, and for his digital/spatial humanities project, Mapping Movies, which in 2003 began to pioneer the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) tools for researching cinema’s social and spatial history.
His essays have appeared in journals such as TMG/Journal for Media History, Images: The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication, Senses of Cinema, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Film History: An International Journal, TheCommunication Review, and Velvet Light Trap, as well as in numerous edited book anthologies.