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Carl Plantinga is a Senior Research Fellow at Calvin University, where he taught from 2000 to 2022. He previously taught Film and Media at Hollins University in Virginia, from 1988-2000.

Plantinga received his B.A. in Philosophy from Calvin College (1980), his M.A. in Film and Media from the University of Iowa (1982), and his Ph.D. from The University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988). He wrote his dissertation under the guidance of David Bordwell.

Plantinga is known in film and media studies and in philosophical aesthetics for his scholarship about nonfiction film, the relationship between film and emotion, and the ethical significance of the cinema. On these topics he has lectured at universities in Beijing, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Princeton, Shanghai, Trondheim, and elsewhere. He was awarded a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust in 2020 for his project, "Screen Stories and Moral Understanding," resulting in an international seminar and an edited book of the same title. In 2022 he was awarded a major grant from the Templeton Religion Trust as Project Director, "Character Engagement and Moral Understanding in Screen Stories." Co-grantees include Allison Eden of Michigan State University, Dan Levin of Vanderbilt University, and Murray Smith of the University of Kent (UK).

Plantinga is one of the founding members of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, for which he served as president and is currently fellow and member of the board of directors.

Plantinga is the author of four books:

Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge UP,1997) Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience (U. Cal Press, 2009) Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (Oxford UP, 2018) Alternative Realities (Rutgers UP, 2020)

He also edited or co-edited three books:

Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion, with Greg M. Smith (Johns Hopkins UP, 1999) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, with Paisley Livingston (Routledge, 2009) Screen Stories and Moral Understanding (Oxford UP, 2023)