Noah Isenberg is the Charles Sapp Centennial Professor of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the university’s two study-away programs, UTLA (Los Angeles) and UTNY (New York City), where he’s based. Author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller We’ll Always Have ‘Casablanca’: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie (W.W. Norton, 2017), his recent anthology Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton, 2021) was selected by Tom Stoppard as a TLS 2021 Book of the Year. He’s currently writing a cultural history of Some Like It Hot for Norton and a short interpretive biography of Wilder for the Yale Jewish Lives series. The recipient of an NEH Public Scholar award, his writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times and elsewhere.