Bernie Cook, Ph.D., is associate dean in Georgetown College and Founding Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is the author of Flood of Images: Media, Memory and Hurricane Katrina and editor of Thelma & Louise Live! The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film (University of Texas Press, 2007). 

He has produced a series of short documentaries exploring social justice issues, including Changing Room (2001), Why Y’All Are Here (2008), and Both Into One: The Parent’s Circle at Georgetown University (2009). At Georgetown, he has created and taught courses including Social Justice Documentary, American Civilization III: Documentary, Film Festival Studies, Independent American Film, New Hollywood Film, Television History, and Film Spectatorship. 

Cook is actively engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning, authoring Producing Audiovisual Knowledge: Documentary Video Production and Student Learning in the American Studies Classroom.