Deirdre Boyle

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Boyle
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Deirdre

Deirdre Boyle is the author of Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited (Oxford, 1997), a history of '70s video collectives, Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tape (Oryx, 1986), and Video Preservation: Ensuring the Future of the Past (Media Alliance, 1993). She is the senior core faculty member in the Graduate Media Studies Program at The New School for Social Research in New York City. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship at Moscow State University, Asian Cultural Council research grant, an ACE award for best documentary series on cable TV in 1988, and most recently, the New School University's Distinguished Teaching Award. She has organized exhibitions of video art and documentary works for museums, libraries, television systems, festivals, arts centers, and universities in the United States, Canada, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Russia, India, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. She is a frequent contributor to The Independent Film and Video Monthly and Wide Angle, and has written nearly 150 essays for a variety of popular and scholarly media journals.