The speakers gather to field your questions and comments and discuss each other's research.

Elizabeth L. Bullock is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. For Elizabeth Bullock, movies are a “gateway drug” to a life of the mind. As an adjunct instructor, Beth teaches cinema, art history, and humanities courses at the City Colleges of Chicago and film studies at Dominican University. Her Hitchcock course surveys the oeuvre and philosophy of the director from Blackmail through Marnie. Her essay "Naughts and Crosses: Marital and Cinematic Gamesmanship in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith" appears in Hitchcock Annual, 2022.

Henry K. Miller is the author of "The First True Hitchcock," published by University of California Press in 2022. His other books are "The Essential Raymond Durgnat" (as editor) and "DWOSKINO: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin" (as co-editor). He is a critic for "Sight and Sound," and has written for publications including the "Times Literary Supplement" and "MUBI Notebook." He has taught film at the University of Cambridge. He teaches film at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge.

Sebastian Smoliński teaches film studies in Warsaw, Poland, and is co-producer of the podcast "Foreign Correspondents: Deeper into Hitchcock."

Dr. Mark W. Padilla teaches classics and film at Christopher Newport University in the state of Virginia, where he holds the title Distinguished Professor. Mark completed collegiate work in English and Classics and earned his PhD in Comparative Literature. Containing himself first to scholarly work on Greek literature and philosophy, following a period in academic administration he returned to his comp lit roots in the 2010s, participating in the emerging field of classical reception. His larger project considers the masked presences of classical myth and references to antiquity at large in Hitchcock. He has published three books with Lexington Books and authored related essays. The titles are Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock; Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock’s Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films and (forthcoming) Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Important Film. His essays have appeared in The Hitchcock Annual and The Hitchcockian Quarterly.