B. Ruby Rich

B. Ruby Rich
Born	Boston, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	Scholar, professor at UC Santa Cruz, film critic, editor of Film Quarterly
Known for	New Queer Cinema

B. Ruby Rich is an American scholar, critic of independent, Latin American, documentary, feminist, and queer films, and a professor of Film & Digital Media and Social Documentation (also known as "SocDoc") at UC Santa Cruz. Among her many contributions, she is known for coining the term New Queer Cinema. She is currently the editor of Film Quarterly, the scholarly film journal published by University of California Press. Her editorials are available free online at the Film Quarterly website.

Rich began her career in film exhibition as co-founder of the Woods Hole Film Society. In 1973, she became associate director of what is now the Gene Siskel Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago. After working as film critic for the Chicago Reader, she moved to New York City to become the director of the film program for the New York State Council on the Arts, where she worked for a decade. While living in New York City, she began writing for the Village Voice. She then moved to San Francisco, where she began teaching, first, at the University of California, Berkeley, and now at UC Santa Cruz, as Professor of Film and Digital Media, where she helped to build the Social Documentation graduate program.

A working cultural theorist and critic since the mid-1970s, Rich has been closely identified with several important film movements, including independent film in the U.S., Europe, and Latin American, and she remains one of the most important voices in feminist film criticism.

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