About Kylo-Patrick Hart
Kylo-Patrick Hart (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is an award-winning fine art and street photographer and chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University, where he teaches courses in film and television history, theory, and criticism; popular culture; and film screenwriting.
Since 2022, Professor Hart has received more than 115 awards and 180 honorable-mention distinctions from his participation in significant international photography competitions (including the Black and White Spider Awards, Budapest International Foto Awards, European Photography Awards, Global Photography Awards, International Color Awards, London Photography Awards, MUSE Photography Awards, Paris International Street Photography Awards, Pollux Awards, reFocus Awards, and Tokyo International Foto Awards, among others). During this same period, his photographs have been exhibited continually, in group and solo shows within both physical and online spaces, with galleries based in numerous cities throughout the United States and several countries abroad (including Argentina, Canada, England, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Scotland, and Spain). Professor Hart received his formal training in digital media arts while a student at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, with additional instruction provided by offerings of the Maine Media Workshops and Santa Fe Workshops. As an artist, his motivation is to discover and capture the beauty, even when it is not always readily self-evident, that surrounds us continuously in all areas of our everyday lives. His overall approach to photography and related forms of artistic production results from the combined influences of Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Impressionism, and Surrealism, all of which affect how he sees the world around us and then proceeds to document it (whether relatively realistically or instead quite innovatively). To date, Professor Hart has earned three graduate/professional certificates (in film studies, copy editing, and book/magazine publishing), four master’s degrees (in communications management, liberal studies, print journalism, and radio-television-film communication), and his Ph.D. (in mass communication, with an emphasis in film and video studies) from major research institutions including Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, and the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books about media (including The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television and Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible) as well as more than 250 journal articles, chapters, conference papers, and reviews. In addition to those academic accomplishments, Professor Hart is the founding co-editor of the academic journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture and a recipient of the AEJMC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Interest Group Leroy F. Aarons Award for Lifetime Contributions to LGBTQ Education and Research. Prior to joining the TCU faculty, he established and served as chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, where he received the honor of being selected the first-ever recipient of the Plymouth State University Award for Distinguished Scholarship. |
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Ph.D.
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media Texas Christian University TCU Box 298030 Fort Worth, Texas 76129 [email protected] 
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