Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a filmmaker, film critic and Chair of the Film & Moving Image Department at Stevenson University. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University, in Slavic Languages and Literatures (concentration in Russian), an M.A from Yale University, in Russian and East European Studies (concentration in Russian Film), and an M.F.A. from the Graduate Film Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

 

A member of both the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, Professor Reed is lead film critic at Hammer to Nail and the editor of Film Festival Today. He is also a voting member of the Black Reel Awards. In addition, he is the author of Film Editing: Theory and Practice.

 

Contact:

Chair/Professor | Film & Moving Image 

School of Design, Arts, and Communication | Stevenson University

100 Campus Circle, Owings Mills, MD 21117

chrisreed@stevenson.edu

tel: 443-394-9543

(He/him/his) 




Degrees: 

 

TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS / NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

M.F.A. in Film Production received May, 2003.  Awarded competitive Teaching

åAssistantship. Extensive coursework in all aspects of filmmaking.

 

YALE UNIVERSITY

M.A. in Russian and East European Studies received December, 1993. 

Studied history of Russian cinema and theater.  Awarded competitive

four-month fellowship for Master’s Thesis research at Moscow State University

on the films of Andrei Tarkovsky.

 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

B.A., magna cum laude, in Slavic Languages and Literatures received June, 1990. 

Significant coursework in Russian language.  Wrote academic thesis on works of

Nikolai Gogol.