Peter Limbrick is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of two books: Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi (University of California Press, 2020) and Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (Palgrave, 2010). In addition, he has published articles on Arab cinema, postcolonial and transnational film and video, and queer theory. He has also curated several film and video programs, including a retrospective of the work of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, which traveled to the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA, USA), the Block Cinema (Chicago, USA) and Tate Modern (London, UK).

Limbrick was the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities Awards for Faculty in 2016-17 and a University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship in 2015-16. From 2015-18 he was a Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College, UC Santa Cruz.

Peter Limbrick serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) and on the advisory committee of ArteArchive, New York City. From 2017-20 he was Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD in Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.

Peter Limbrick received a BA (Hons) and MA in English (with Distinction) from the University of Otago, New Zealand (1991 and 1993) and a PhD in Cinema Studies from La Trobe University (Australia) in 2001.