JOHN TIBBETTS

• Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Dept of  Theatre and  Film, University of Kansas
• Author, educator, broadcaster, artist, and pianist.
  
• Senior Editor for the annual Movie Video Guides from Ballantine Books
• Author of
• The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film
• His Majesty, The American:The Films of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (with James Welsh)
• The Encyclopedia of Great Filmmakers
  
• Composers in the Movies, ( June, 2005,  Yale Univerity Press)
• Senior consultant and contributor to major reference works, including    
  
• The New Film Index
•  The Encyclopedia of the 20th Century
• American Cultural Biography.
  

         John C. Tibbetts is an author, educator, broadcaster, artist and pianist. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Multi-Disciplinary Studies -Art History, Photography and Film. He has hosted his own television show in Kansas City, Missouri ("A.M. Live"); worked as a news reporter/commentator for CBS Television on CNN, produced Fine Arts programming for KXTR-FM radio; written (and illustrated) four books, more than 200 articles, and several short stories. From 1976 - 1985 he edited the bi-monthly magazine, American Classic Screen (the publication of the National Film Society).  Tibbetts is a regular contributor to The Christian Science Monitor newspaper and Radio Network. He is a Senior Editor for the annual Movie Video Guides from Ballantine Books, and has been a Senior consultant and contributor to several major reference works, including The New Film Index, The Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, and American Cultural Biography, Novels Into Film, and his latest, Composers in the Movies, published in June 2005 by Yale Univerity Press.

His current radio series are The World of Robert Schumann (currently being broadcast worldwise on the WFMT Radio Network) and Piano Portraits.

Currently, he is Associate Chair and Associate Professor Dept of Film and Theatre at the University of Kansas