Caetlin Benson-Allott is Professor of English and Film & Media Studies at Georgetown University. Her research and teaching focus on film and television history and spectatorship, material culture, home video technologies, queer film cultures, and the horror genre. She is currently writing a book In Praise of Escapism, which argues that this long-disparaged self-care practice will revolutionize your life and community.

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 wrote the longest-running regular column at Film Quarterly (2011-2015).

She is represented by Monika Verma at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.