The speakers will gather to field your questions and comments and discuss each other's research. The afternoon's speakers are joined by special guests Steven DeRosa, Sidney Gottlieb and Thomas Leitch to wrap up the weekend's symposia.

Joel Gunz is President & Host of HitchCon. An independent scholar known online as the Alfred Hitchcock Geek, Joel is an award-winning filmmaker and publisher of "The Hitchcockian Quarterly." His fascination with the Master of Cinema commenced at age 12 and never stopped, eventuating in hundreds of scholarly articles, chapters and essays. As a film essayist, Joel adds his personal history to his scholarship, blending the two with special effects that re-examine the duality of subject and object, the imaginal and the real. His latest such film, "Spellbound by L’Amour Fou," won Best Short Documentary at the Medusa Film Festival. He is also producer and director of three essay film series: "How to Watch Hitchcock" (2018-19), "Freak the Geek" (2018-current) and "Alfred Hitchcock, Master of the Surreal" (2019-current). Joel and his partner, Christy La Guardia, live with their beagle, Charlie, in Olympia, Washington.

Elisabeth Karlin is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Elisabeth Karlin is an award-winning playwright living in New York. Her plays include "The Night the Ocean Met the Bay" (Next Stage Press); "The Showman and the Spirit" (Winner, 2017 Stanley Drama Award); "Hotbed" (Epic Play Readings, Project Y Theatre; Reading, Jersey City Theatre Center) "Bodega Bay" (The Abingdon Theatre Company; Winner of the 2013 Jerry Kaufman Award in Playwriting; THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014 and THE BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014, Smith and Kraus) and many more. A dedicated film buff, Elisabeth has been a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog, covering a wide range of themes inspired by The Master. An expanded version of her talk at HitchCon21 on "The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock" appears in the current volume of The Hitchcock Annual.

Walter Raubicheck is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Walter Raubicheck is professor of English at Pace University in New York. He is the co-author with Walter Srebnick of "Scripting Hitchcock" (2011), and co-editor, with Srebnick, of "Hitchcock’s Re-released Films: From Rope to Vertigo" (1991). More recently, he edited "Hitchcock and the Cold War: New Essays on the Espionage Films, 1956-1969." A playwright, he debuted "The New Norman," a play about the making of Psycho at HitchCon '22. In addition to his work on Hitchcock, he has published essays on twentieth-century authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Dashiell Hammett, and G. K. Chesterton.

Steven DeRosa is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Steven is the author of “Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes.” He’s appeared on-screen in the documentary “Viaggio nel Cinema in 3D: Una Storia Vintage, which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival;” in the documentary “The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style;” and in featurettes on home video releases of “To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest.” Since 2011, Steven has been teaching film studies and screenwriting at Mercy University in Westchester County, New York. Beginning with his popular course on Hitchcock, Steven partnered with his local Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to host discussions for both students and the theater audience. He’s also hosted film series on Orson Welles, Hollywood Westerns, and Screwball Comedies.

Sidney Gottlieb is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. A true leading light of Hitchcock scholarship, Sidney edits the Hitchcock Annual and is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. His publications on Hitchcock include two volumes of "Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews" (University of California Press, 1995; 2015), "Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews" (University Press of Mississippi, 2003), "Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual" (co-edited with Christopher Brookhouse; Wayne State University Press, 2002); "The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15" (co-edited with Richard Allen; Wallflower Press, 2009), and the forthcoming "Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now" (co-edited with Donal Martin; John Libbey Publishing/Indiana University Press, 2021).

Thomas Leitch is author of "Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games" and "The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock," co-editor of "The Companion to Alfred Hitchcock." Professor of English and Unidel Andrew R. Kirkpatrick, Jr. Chair of Writing at University of Delaware.