Marek Haltof
Marek Haltof (Józef Marek Haltof, born 1957 in Cieszyn, Poland,) is a professor (dr.hab.) of film studies. specializing in the cultural histories of Polish and Australian film. He studied at the University of Silesia (Uniwersytet Śląski) in Poland and at Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the University of Alberta with a Ph.D. dissertation "When Cultures Collide: The Cinema of Peter Weir". He received his "habilitation" in 2001 for "Autor i kino artystyczne. Przypadek Paula Coxa" (Author and Art Cinema: The Case of Paul Cox) from the Jagiellonian University  in Kraków. For several years he has taught at universities in Canada, including the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, and since 2001 he is a Professor at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the 2012 "Choice" Award for Outstanding Academic Book in Film Studies for his "Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory" (2012. In 2018 he was honored for Excellence in Scholarship at NMU. Haltof established himself as one of the leading voices on Polish cinema. Film critic Michał Oleszczyk writes that Haltof is one  of the two Polish-born scholars leading the field of Polish films studies outside Poland (with the other one being Ewa Mazierska). According to Oleszczyk, Haltof's "Polish Cinema: A History" (2019) is a "comprehensive, reliable" and "groundbreaking work," which "delivers rich, basic information in ways that are both enjoyable and intelligible for foreign readers." The same critic describes Haltof's "Screening Auschwitz" (2018) as "one of the finest single film monographs on the subject of Polish film - and perhaps one of the finest monographs on any significant work of cinema." "Screening Auschwitz" received the 2019 Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award  from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.