Toufic El-Khoury is an Associate Professor in Film Studies Director of the Insti-tut d’Études Scéniques, Audiovisuelles et Cinématographiques (IESAV) at the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is also a Research Fellow at the Cen-tre d’Etudes et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres Arts Cinéma (CERI-LAC, Université de Paris Cité), co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Regards - Revue des Arts du Spectacle.

Toufic’s research interests include classic Hollywood cinema cinema genres (come-dy, film noir, dystopia) literature, theatre cinema philosophy cinema screenwriting theory. Toufic has published numerous journal articles on film cinema is the author of Classic Hollywood Comedy (1929-1945): Triadic Struc-ture and Mediations of Desire (2016), and Alienation and Determinism in Classic Film Noir (1944-1949) (2020). With Alain Brenas, he also co-edited The Mediterra-nean City at the Cinema (2015). He is also a novelist, with titles including Beyrouth Pantomime (2008) and Letheapolis (2014).