Barry Keith Grant
Barry Keith Grant is a Canadian-American critic, educator, author and editor who best known for his work on science fiction films, horror films and popular music. Grant is recognized as one of the leading experts on the work of American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. An Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Grant has authored or edited more than two dozen books on these subjects, several of which have become standard course texts on film studies. He has also been a featured critic on CBC radio. Career. Grant earned his Ph.D. from the State University  of New York at Buffalo in American literature and film studies in 1975. From 1975-2016 he taught at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where he helped develop the undergraduate program in film studies, one of the first in Canada, as well as the country's only graduate program in popular culture. He served as the founding director of that program from 2002-2004 and before that as the founding chair of the interdisciplinary Department of Fine Arts in the 1980s. Since 1995 Grant has served as editor of the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media series for  Wayne State University Press, which also includes the innovative "TV Milestones" series. Grant is also the editor of the "New Approaches to Film and Media s"eries, originally with Cambridge University Press and now published by Wiley-Blackwell. He has or is currently serving on the editorial boards or advisory editorial boards of "Cinema Journal", "Literature/Film Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Science Fiction Studies," and "Science Fiction Film and Television". Grant was Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume "Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film", an award-winning reference work involving contributions from 100 scholars around the world. Grant is the  recipient of the Distinguished Academic Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers in 2010 and the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Pedagogy Award in 2009. He was the first Canadian film studies scholar to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010.