Kenneth C. Kaleta, PhD

Ken Kaleta was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, before moving to the Philadelphia area to attend Villanova University in 1969. He took his doctorate in Humanities at New York University in 1985. Kaleta currently lives in Philadelphia’s Society Hill with his RagaMuffin cat, Georges. A Professor of Cinema Studies at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, Kaleta is the author of David Lynch (1993), Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller (1998), and a collection of interviews with Hal Hartley. Hal Hartley, previously serialized on the web and collected and translated for publication in Spain and Poland, is to be published in the United States in early 2009. Kaleta is currently working on his next book, tentatively titled Dimly And In Flashes, a study of three digital artists.