Girish Shambu is an American film blogger, cinephile, film critic and educator.
Besides maintaining an eponymous blog, which has become a popular center for the film blogging community, [1] Shambu has contributed writing to including Senses of Cinema , Artforum , Cineaste and The Auteurs' Notebook.
Girish Shambu received a B. Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India and a Ph.D. in management systems / computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. [2] Shambu teaches management at Canisius College, [1] and has been the recipient of the Donald E. Calvert Teaching Excellence Award twice. [2]
Shambu began blogging on film in 2004, and within a few years has become one of the most popular of a growing community of devoted cinephiles writing online. In an interview for a sub-site of the film criticism website The House Next Door in 2006, Shambu named Pauline Kael's review of Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill , James Monaco's book on the French New Wave (which he read several times before he had ever seen a French film), J. Hoberman's Vulgar Modernism and the website of cinephile Acquarello as having had a formative influence on his interest in film. [3]
In August 2011, as co-editor with Adrian Martin, Shambu launched the film journal LOLA. [4]