About

Travis Mushett is a Brooklyn-based educator, podcaster, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. His latest project is The Haunted Screen, a narrative podcast and accompanying newsletter about film, history, and the places they intersect. Travis provides extensively-researched episodes about movements in global cinema, and delivers them in an irreverent, easy-to-listen-to package that appeals to both hardcore cinephiles and casual moviegoers. The first season—"From Caligari to Hitler"—investigates the chaotic, creative world of Weimar Germany. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen.

Travis’ many (arguably too many) years of schooling culminated in a Communications PhD from Columbia University, which qualified him to teach the theory and history of film and media at institutions like Columbia, Fordham University, and Marymount Manhattan College.

From its inception in 2012 until its demise in 2018, Travis was the Editor-in-Chief of Blunderbuss Magazine, a web & print publication of literature, art, politics, criticism, comics, and other aesthetic shrapnel. It ruled.

Travis’ writing has appeared in outlets like Full Stop, KGB Bar Lit, Free Williamsburg, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and Business Insider. His photos have been published by Bushwick Daily, The Brooklyn Eagle, and Hyperallergic. And “Circle of Fourths”—his first experimental short film—screened at the Greenpoint Film Festival, NewFilmmakers NY, the Hobnobben Film Festival, and the Jersey City Popup Film Festival — Horror Edition.