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Tina Olsin Lent
Chair of the Department of Fine Arts

Fields of Expertise:
Imaging & Media > Film


Dept/Division: College of Liberal Arts
E-Mail: tnlgsh@rit.edu
News Contact: Vienna Carvalho, vnccom@rit.edu, 585-475-4952
Website: www.rit.edu/cla/finearts/


Tina Olsin Lent currently serves as chair of the Department of Fine Arts and as a professor of film history and art history.

She is a recognized expert in women in film and American film comedy and her work has appeared in a number of books and journals, including Classical Hollywood Comedy published by the American Film Institute. She is also co-editor of Past Meets Present: Recovering the History of Women at Rochester Institute of Technology, 1885-1945.

Lent holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.