About me
Eric Hoyt is the Kahl Family Professor of Media Production in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the intersections between media history and the digital humanities. He is the Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and Media History Digital Library, which has digitized over 3 million pages of historic books and magazines for open access. He is the author of Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video (2014) and Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press (2022), as well as co-editor of Hollywood and the Law (2015), The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities (2016), and Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography (2021), and the forthcoming Global Movie Magazine Networks (2025). His work has been supported with over $1.4 million in extramural grants from the NEH, ACLS, NHPRC, and IMLS.
