Jordan Leondopoulos

Film Career: Film Editor, Film Director and Screenwriter 1961-1971
Education: B.A., CUNY; MPhil & Ph.D, Columbia University 1971-1985
Academic Career: St. John's University, Columbia University, CCNY 1991-present

Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University1985  
Fields of concentration:  Modern British Literature; Narrative in Fiction and Film

M. Phil., Columbia University, 1982

B.A., Summa cum laude,CUNY/BA, 1975
 
Academic Honors

Research Grant, Notre Dame College, St. John's University, 1990
Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, 1982-3
Ph.D. Certification Examination passed with Distinction, 1982
Dissertation Defense passed with Highest Distinction, 1984
Edward Mack Graduate Scholarship, The City College, 1975

Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Dept. of Film:
     Fated Femmes: Images of Women in New York MoviesUrban Visions: Lumet,   
     Scorsese, and Allen;  A Sometime Paradise: New York City in the Movies; Novels and 
     Films: Adaptation
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Dept. of English and Comparative
     Literature: Doctoral Seminar: Conrad and Lawrence

The City College, Dept. of English: World Humanities Honors; World Humanities; Writing
     for the Humanities

St. John's University, Dept. of English: American Writers of Realism and Naturalism; Drama:
     British (19th & 20th Century), American (20th Century)

Modernism,Cinema Studies and Narrative in Fiction & Film

Book Review: The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of   
      Europe and Empire by Christopher Gogwilt. Choice, January, 1996

Book Review: The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change by Michael Hanne. 
      Choice, October, 1995

"Auteur Theory," Encyclopedia of Film Ed. James Monaco (New York: G.P. Putnam 
              & Sons)

"Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy,'" Poetry II (Pasadena: Salem Press, Inc., 1992)

Still the Moving World: Intolerance, Modernism and Heart of Darkness 
              (NewYork,  Bern: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1991)

Lost in a Climate of Opinion: Intolerance Revisited," Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 18, 
              No. 2 (1990)

"Grace Paley," Cyclopedia of World Authors II (Pasadena: Salem Press, Inc., 1989)

In Progress:

Books: "Framing New York: the City in the Movies"
            "Screening Skepticism: Conrad on Film"
            "Whose Wife is it Anyway?: Adapting Adultery from Novel to Film"

Articles: "Freud in Armani: The Psychoanalyst in Contemporary Film"
             "Modernist Spectacle: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance"

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Professional Activities

Editorial Consultant: In Case You Missed It (poetry and jazz CD), Barry Wallenstein (poet), 
             CUNY Research Foundation Grant Recipient, 1995
Lecture: "Description and the Novel: Samsa's Centerfold and Other Things We Look at
              When We Read" Faculty Colloquium, Dept. of English, The City College, 1994
Lecture: "The Exorcist: Cutting the Devil Down to Size" Salisbury State University, MD, 
              March 1990
Paper: "Lost in a Climate of Opinion: Intolerance Revisited," Salisbury State University, MD, 
              June 1989 Voted "Best Conference Paper"
Panelist and Discussant: Dramatic Reading, Cipango! (New York: Griffon House Publ., 
              1985) American Italian Cultural Roundtable, Fordham University, NY, 1988
Lecture: "Editing The Exorcist: Shaping the Narrative from Novel to Film" School of Visual
              Arts, NY, 1975; Georgetown Univ., DC, 1973

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Film Career:
Screenplay Consultant: MacGuffin Pictures, Inc., New York, 1987-89, Windsong, Inc., Los
         Angeles, 1987-89
Film Editor:
    Feature Films: Wolfen, starring Albert Finney (Orion, 1981), The Exorcist, starring Ellen
           Burstyn, Lee J. Cobb, Max Von Sydow (Warner Bros., 1973)
    Short Film: The Letter (MacGuffin Pictures, 1983)
Screenwriter:
    Feature Film: Windmill (Universal Pictures, 1972)
Screenwriter and Director:
    Feature Film: Sam's Song, starring Robert DeNiro (Cannon, 1975)

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Professional Honors:

Judge, "International Arts Award," Columbus Countdown 1992, 1988
Judge, Student Film Competition, The City College, CUNY, 1981
Blue Ribbon Panelist (film editing), Academy of Television Arts and Sciences  
                       "Emmy" Awards, 1977
Academy Award Nominee, Supervising Film Editor: The Exorcist, 1973
Golden Eagle Award, Film Editing: Wheelin' Easy, 1972