Amy Borden is an Associate Professor of Film at Portland State University where she specializes in silent film history and classical film theory. She is currently writing a book-length study about theorizations of consciousness and motion pictures in gilded-age, American magazines. She has written about Hugo Munsterberg, Mary Pickford and Italian immigrant ethnicity, and depictions of sausage machines as part of a cycle of silent films. She has presented at SCMS and Domitor, and her work has appeared in anthologies and journals including Jump Cut, Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema, The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender, and Multiplicities: Cycles, Sequels, Remakes and Reboots in Film & Television. Her most recent essay, “Shadows, Screens, Bodies, and Light: Reading the Discursive Shadow in the Age of American Silent Cinema,” was published in the peer-reviewed journal Screen Bodies in September 2020.