- Email:
- akozma@iu.edu
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
As the Director of IU Cinema, Dr. Kozma oversees programming, operations, and academic and industry initiatives. An educator, writer, and researcher, she specializes in the everyday work of the media. This includes a dual focus on, first, how the film industry runs, the composition of industry employees, and the form and function of their labor; and second, the industrial, financial, and technological evolutions of film exhibition and its impacts on independent film.
Dr. Kozma is the author of The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking (Mississippi UP) co-author of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (Edinburgh UP) and Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era (Common Ground). Her work has been published in a wide a variety of anthologies and journals, including Media Industries, Film Comment, Camera Obscura, Television and New Media and others. Dr. Kozma is affiliate faculty in IU's Media School, IU Bloomington's Wells Scholar Professor for 2025, series co-editor of Edinburgh University Press' ReFocus: The American Director Series, a Board Member of Art House Convergence, an Advisory Board Member of the Black Film Center & Archive, a Steering Committee Member of the Union for Democratic Communication. You can learn more about her research and teaching at www.aliciakozma.com.
Dr. Kozma holds a PhD in communication and media studies from the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has more than 15 years of non-profit development and leadership experience. She is former Assistant Professor and Past Chair of the Communication and Media Studies program at Washington College, and has taught at Rutgers-Newark University, Hunter College and University of Illinois.