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Charles John Musser (born 16 January 1951) is a film historian, documentary filmmaker, and a film editor. Since 1992, he has taught at Yale University, where he is currently a professor of Film and Media Studies as well as American Studies and Theater Studies.
In Politicking and Emergent Media, distinguished historian Charles Musser looks at four US presidential campaigns during the long 1890s (1888–1900) as Republicans and Democrats deployed a variety of media forms to promote their candidates and platforms.
Charles Musser. Professor of American Studies, Film & Media Studies, and Theater Studies (on leave spring 2025) charles.musser@yale.edu. HQ C29. 203-432-0152. Charles Musser teaches courses on film and media historiography, American cinema and documentary film (both critical studies and production).
Charles Musser Professor of Film and Media Studies Professor of American Studies and Theater Studies
Charles Musser grew up in Old Greenwich and Riverside, Connecticut, and attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, where he took Public Affairs courses with Gerry Studds, who co-chaired Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 presidential campaign in New Hampshire.
Charles Musser teaches courses on the interactions between live performance and film, primarily in the United States. His essay “To Redream the Dreams of White Playwrights: Resistance and Reappropriation in Oscar Micheaux’s Body and Soul” was awarded the Katherine Kovacs Prize for Outstanding Scholarship (essay) published in 1999-2000.
Charles Musser. Education: Yale University, B.A., 1975, Major: Film and Literature New York University, Ph.D., October 1986, Dept of Cinema Studies. Academic Experience: 2000-present: Professor of American Studies, Film Studies and Theater Studies, Yale University. Co-chair, Film Studies Program (to July 2008). Director Yale Summer Film Institute.
