J. English Cook, Ph.D. is a curator, film programmer, and author with over fifteen years of experience in the arts and museum professions. Her research engages historical intersections among architecture, cinema, and urban theory as well as contemporary film and the environmental humanities. Cook was the 2021-22 Vilcek Curatorial Fellow and a 2022-23 research assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and she has held previous positions at the Architecture Film Festival London, the Grey Art Museum, NYU, MoMA, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. Her writing has appeared in various journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues, and she is currently at work as the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Climate Film Festival (CFF) NYC.

She earned a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her dissertation, Life Begins Tomorrow: Cinema, Architecture, and the Design of Perception in France, 1920-1968, examines the impact of cinema on postwar phenomenology, particularly its flourishing across international architectural exchange, critical theories of difference, and belonging in the built environment. She received an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts and a BA from Williams College.

She also goes by “English,” like the language.