Office Building: Cotton Memorial Office Room: 301 Phone: Email:kebird@utep.edu
Bio
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Awards and Honors
Sight and Sound Magazine, Top Ten Video Essays of the Year - Sight and Sound Magazine (British Film Institute) (12/01/2020-12/31/2020)
Education
Ph D in Film and Digital Media Production, University of Pittsburgh (2018)
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University (2010)
Publications
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City by Debashree Mukherjee (review) JCMS: The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61 1, Fall 2021 (2021),
Katie E. Bird.
Sporting Sensations: Béla Balázs and the Bergfilm Camera Operator.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) Prev. Cinema Journal. 60 3/ Spring 2021 (2021),
Katie E. Bird.
Feeling and Thought as it Takes Form: Early Steadicam, Labor, and Technology (1974-1985) [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 7 1 (2020),
Katie E. Bird.
The Editor’s Face on the Cutting Room Floor: Fredrick Y. Smith’s Precarious Promotion of the American Cinema Editors, 1942-1977” The Spectator (special issue: “System Beyond the Studios") 38, no. 2, (Fall 2018): 9-19. 2 (2018),
Katie E. Bird.
"Dancing, Flying Camera Jockeys’: Invisible Labor, Craft Discourse, and Embodied Steadicam and Panaglide Technique from 1972 to 1985." Velvet Light Trap/University of Texas Press 80 1 (2017),
Katie E. Bird.
Presentations
Proposed Paper: Foreign Department Heads and Local Hired Hands: Mixed Lighting and Grip Crew #setlife on Social Media (2021), Volume Paris, France,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed Paper: “Any place with a camera in hand, I was alive”: Estelle Kirsch and the Documentation of Women’s Camera History (2021), Volume Boston, Massachusettes,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed Presentation: “Scrubbing through the Timeline: Editing What I Feel to Myself" (2021), Volume Online, based in the EU,
Katie E. Bird.
Imagining a Feminist Cinematography through Organizational Politics: A History of Behind the Lens-an Association of Professional Camerawomen, 1984-1996 (2021), Volume Online - Hosted in UK,
Katie E. Bird.
Presentation of Video Essay and Discussion: "young (women) filmmaker(s)” (2021), Volume Online - hosted in Istanbul, Turkey ,
Katie E. Bird.
Desktop Documentary: "How Much Does a Camera Weigh (to a Woman)?" (2021), Volume Online,
Katie E. Bird.
Panel Respondent: "The Meanings of Movies Across Borders" (2021), Volume Online, UTEP,
Katie E. Bird.
Extorting Labor and Preserving Grip History:vIATSE’s Propaganda and Promotion of Local 37" (2021), Volume Online,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed and Accepted Paper: With a Camera in Hand: Reimagining a Theory of Women Operators Craft Practice (2021), Volume Chicago, IL,
Katie E. Bird.
(Accepted, Cancelled due to COVID) Imagining a Feminist Cinematography through Organizational Politics: A History of Behind the Lens-an Association of Professional Camerawomen, 1984-1996 (2020), Volume Dublin, Ireland,
Katherine E. Bird.
(Accepted, Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19) Whether They Want it Or Not’:Selling Photography Screen Credits to 1920s US Moviegoers (2020), Volume Maynooth University. Dublin, Ireland,,
Katie E. Bird.
(Accepted, Cancelled Due to Covid) Extorting Labor and Preserving Grip History:vIATSE’s Propaganda and Promotion of Local 37" (2020), Volume Denver,
Katie E. Bird.
“The DIY History of Behind the Lens: an Association of Professional Camerawomen,1984-1996” (2019), Volume Seattle, WA,
Katie E. Bird.
Grants
Behind-the-Lens: Groundbreaking Women Camera Operators, 1970-2000
Sight and Sound Magazine, Top Ten Video Essays of the Year - Sight and Sound Magazine (British Film Institute) (12/01/2020-12/31/2020)
Ph D in Film and Digital Media Production, University of Pittsburgh (2018)
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University (2010)
Publications
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City by Debashree Mukherjee (review) JCMS: The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61 1, Fall 2021 (2021),
Katie E. Bird.
Sporting Sensations: Béla Balázs and the Bergfilm Camera Operator.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) Prev. Cinema Journal. 60 3/ Spring 2021 (2021),
Katie E. Bird.
Feeling and Thought as it Takes Form: Early Steadicam, Labor, and Technology (1974-1985) [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 7 1 (2020),
Katie E. Bird.
The Editor’s Face on the Cutting Room Floor: Fredrick Y. Smith’s Precarious Promotion of the American Cinema Editors, 1942-1977” The Spectator (special issue: “System Beyond the Studios") 38, no. 2, (Fall 2018): 9-19. 2 (2018),
Katie E. Bird.
"Dancing, Flying Camera Jockeys’: Invisible Labor, Craft Discourse, and Embodied Steadicam and Panaglide Technique from 1972 to 1985." Velvet Light Trap/University of Texas Press 80 1 (2017),
Katie E. Bird.
Presentations
Proposed Paper: Foreign Department Heads and Local Hired Hands: Mixed Lighting and Grip Crew #setlife on Social Media (2021), Volume Paris, France,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed Paper: “Any place with a camera in hand, I was alive”: Estelle Kirsch and the Documentation of Women’s Camera History (2021), Volume Boston, Massachusettes,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed Presentation: “Scrubbing through the Timeline: Editing What I Feel to Myself" (2021), Volume Online, based in the EU,
Katie E. Bird.
Imagining a Feminist Cinematography through Organizational Politics: A History of Behind the Lens-an Association of Professional Camerawomen, 1984-1996 (2021), Volume Online - Hosted in UK,
Katie E. Bird.
Presentation of Video Essay and Discussion: "young (women) filmmaker(s)” (2021), Volume Online - hosted in Istanbul, Turkey ,
Katie E. Bird.
Behind-the-Lens: Groundbreaking Women Camera Operators, 1970-2000
