Caetlin Benson-Allott is Professor of English and Film & Media Studies and Director of Film & Media Studies at Georgetown University. Her research and teaching focus on film and television history and theory, material culture, home video technologies, queer cinema, and the horror genre. She is currently completing On Escapism, a recuperation of as an empowering spectatorial practice.

Prof. Benson-Allott is the author of The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television (2021), Remote Control (2015), and Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (2013).

She was Editor of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal), the scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, from 2018 through 2022. She also writes a regular column for Film Quarterly.