Charles Derry
Charles Derry received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from Northwestern University and his M.A. from the University of Southern California. He was assistant director of the award winning 16mm film Suspension: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. As a writer, Derry authored Dark Dreams: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film, co-authored The Film Book Biography, and was a contributor to the anthology American Television Genres. He also wrote The Suspense Thriller: Films in the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock. His films Cerebral Accident and Joan Crawford Died for Your Sins won bronze medals at the Houston Film Festival. Derry has also published fiction, criticism, and memoir in The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Reclaiming the Heartland, The Portland Literary Review, The Sun, and Contra/Dictions, among other publications. Derry has been awarded fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, Culture Works, and the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco. As coordinator of Motion Pictures, Derry has been teaching at Wright State since 1978.
His personal website can be found here.
Last updated June 12, 2007