Martha Nochimson, Film Critic and Writer / Covering David Lynch, Soap Opera, The Sopranos, David Chase, and Film Writing

Martha P. Nochimson, Film Critic and Writer

Recognition

Professional Affiliations

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation (Associate Member and Member of Advisory Board)
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Writer's Guild of America, East (Lifetime Membership)
Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar (Associate Member

Honors and Awards

Interviewed to be part of a tribute film to The Sopranos in celebration of its fifteenth anniversary (Blu-ray set, 2014).

Invited to work with Chaotic Sequence, Inc. as an Associate Producer for feature film Found In Time, 2012-2013. Film has obtained domestic distribution, screened at 22 festivals, and won 6 'best feature' awards to date.

Invited as a principle speaker to the first international conference on David Lynch in Berlin, called David Lynch and the Art of the Real: "The Certain/Uncertainty of David Lynch: A Paradigm Shift," June 27-30, 2012.

2012 Columbia University Seminars Grant
A $1600 grant to support the costs of the cover photo and the Index for David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire (forthcoming from University of Texas Press).

Invited speaker at a conference at Stockholm University called Rethinking American Studies: "How the Best Was Lost: The History of the Failure of the American Experiment in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York". October 13-15 2009. Link to videotape of the presentation.

2008 Columbia University Seminars Grant
A $2800 grant to support the costs of screen captures and Index for World on Film (Wiley/Blackwell)

2005 Columbia University Seminars Grant
A $2200 grant to support the costs of screen captures and the preparation of an Index for Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong (Blackwell Publisher)

2003 Mercy College Faculty Development Grant
A $350.00 grant to support the costs of preparing an Index for Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2 (University of Texas Press)

2002 Columbia University Seminars Grant
A $500.00 grant to support the costs of preparing an Index for Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2 (University of Texas Press)

2000
Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Columbia University on Seminar and Interdisciplinary Interpretation

2000
Appointed Director of the Film Studies Program at Mercy College

1999 Columbia Uniersity Seminars Grant
A $1500.00 grant to support the research for Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2 (University of Texas Press)

1998 Columbia University Seminars Grant
A $2000.00 grant to support the research for Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2 (University of Texas Press)

1998 Faculty Development Grant - Mercy College
A $1,000.00 grant to support research for Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2 (University of Texas Press)

1997
Appointment as Associate of the Columbia University Film Seminar

1997 Mellon Foundation Grant
A $1,500 grant to support the publication of The Passion of David Lynch: Wild At Heart in Hollywood (University of Texas Press)

1997 Columbia University Seminars Grant
An $855.00 to support the cost of the index for The Passion of David Lynch:Wild At Heart in Hollywood (University of Texas Press)

1996
Appointment as Associate of the Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar

1996 Faculty Development Grant - Mercy College
A $750 grant to develop grant applications to support the creation of a film studies major for the Department of Communication Arts.

1993 Faculty Development Grant - Mercy College
A $1,500 grant to support research for the writing of my book The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood (University of Texas Press)

1990 Faculty Development Grant - Mercy College
A $1,500 grant to support research for the completion of my book, No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject (University of California Press)

1985 Faculty Development Grant - Mercy College
A $5,000 grant to support my creation of a Writing Across the Curriculum program at Mercy College.