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Mitchell wrote in an e-mail yesterday that the HFA will continue to have a curator and professional staff...
...HFA employee also cited fears among colleagues that the film archive would be forced to cut back on its extensive schedule of screenings...
...HFA employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Jenkins, a senior lecturer at VES who has overseen the collection since 1999, was likely to leave the University. The employee did not know whether Jenkins had tendered his resignation yet, and Jenkins declined to comment for this story. Tom R. Gunning, a film scholar at the University of Chicago who has been in contact Jenkins and sent Kirby a letter attacking the move last week, said he believed Jenkins had been asked to step down from his position as Cavell curator of the Archive. Jenkins currently retains his office...
Middlebury College professor Ted S. Perry, a member of the HFA advisory committee who e-mailed Kirby on Saturday calling the decision to put an official from the Harvard College Library in charge of the films “a travesty,” said in an interview that he thought financial concerns led to the archive’s transfer from...
Gunning said Jenkins’ arrival at Harvard five years ago had been a major milestone in the struggle to get the archive adequate attention and funding—and worried that his departure from the HFA boded ill for film studies at Harvard...