Educator, Critic, Preservationist and Dean of the UCLA School of
Theater, Film and Television, Rosen has spoken at scholarly, public,
and professional meetings in more than twenty nations on subjects
related to film criticism, media history, and curatorship.
He has published widely in the field of media preservation and has
guided the growth of the UCLA Film and Television Archive from a small
study collection to the world's largest university-based holding of
original film and television materials.
As a preservationist and historian, he has occupied many positions of
leadership in the field. These include: Founding Director of the
National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film
Institute; the Executive Committee of the International Federation of
Film Archives; member of the National Film Preservation Board of the
Library of Congress; member of the Stanford Theater Foundation and the
Geffen Playhouse.