Lesley Coffin completed a masters in Biographical Studies at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, specializing in film history and star studies.  Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector is her first biography.

Works
Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector (Nov 2012), University Press of Mississippi (Hollywood Legends Series)
Hitchcock's Stars: Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood Star System (in progress)
Untitled Bruno Kirby Biography (in progress)

Freelance Contributor
Filmoria.co.uk
Reviews
The Act of Killing
The Stories We Tell
The Iceman Review
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Tribeca Film Festival)
The Pretty One (Tribeca Film Festival)
Bottled Up (Tribeca Film Festival)
Run and Jump (Tribeca Film Festival)
Whitewash (Tribeca Film Festival)
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Tribeca Film Festival)
Before Midnight
Prince Avalanche
At Any Price
Admission
Olympus Has Fallen
Salt (First Time Film Festival)
THE WE AND THE I 
Must See Movie: Harold and Maude
A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III
JOHN DIES AT THE END
QUARTET
THE GUILT TRIP
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
California Solo
Hitchcock
Silver Linings Playbook
The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2
Seven Psychopaths
House at the End of the Street
Arbitrage
Butter

Interviews
Tribeca Interview: Fresh Meat Director Danny Mulheron
Tribeca Interview: Director Steph Green and Cast of Run and Jump (Will Forte, Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam)
Tribeca Interview: Documentarian Yves Montmayeur on Michael Haneke
Tribeca Interview: WHITEWASH Writer/Director Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
Tribeca: Interview With STAR WARS UNCUT Creator Casey Pugh
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: THE BIG WEDDING’S JUSTIN ZACKHAM & CLAY PECORIN
First Time Film Festival Q&A with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy RyanPusher Director Luis Prieto Interview - Filmoria
Pusher Director Luis Prieto Interview

Features
Valentine’s Special: Top 10 Sexy Sexless Scenes
10 Unappreciated Christmas Movies
Halloween Special: 10 Movies with Killer Kids
A Song A Day: Theme from St. Elmo's Fire

Directors Retrospective
Alan Rudolph
Paul Weitz
Kathryn Bigelow

News Articles
Cannes Film Festival 2013 Line-Up Revealed
TRIBECA FILMS EXPANDING TO THE UK
Oscar’s In Memoriam Omission Can Be Found Online
Is Nicole Kidman Harvey Weinstein’s Next Golden Girl?
Senior Citizens Are Ruling The US Box-Office
Sundance Festival Wrap-Up: What You’ll Get To See
2013 Sundance International Film Festival Breakdown: What To Expect
John Cusack Producing Rush, Will Star as Limbaugh
The Peanuts Get Movie with Support of Schultz Family
Pixar Launches Monsters University Website
TIFF Leads to Picture Sales
Alexander Payne's Nebraska Could Be a Major Boom to a State Devastated By Drought

Static Mass Emporium
Review: Libeled Lady

Cineaste Magazine
Film Biographers Symposium, Editor, Spring/Summer 2013
The "Female" Comedy, cowriter, Summer/Fall 2013
public relations/research/indexing for magazine's archive

Public Speaking/Interviews
Ron Bennington Interviews, 5/9/2013 (Ron and Fez), Repeats on Ron Bennington Intervies (RBI), Sirius XM Radio
Psycho and the Revolutionary Manipulation of The Star System (2013), Gene Siskel Film Center
Stars and the Motivation of Public Debate (2013), University lecture in connection to Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector
Star Studies and the Manipulation of the Audience (2012), Gallatin Graduate (Popular Culture/Mass Culture)
Representation of Race and Gender in Sitcoms of the 70s and 80s (2010), Gallatin Undergraduate (Mass Media)
Screwball Comedy in Pride and Prejudice (2004), Ball State University (Film Genres)

Film Programming
Essential Hitchcock (2010-2011), NYU Undergraduates
Ball State Film Series (2002-2005), Ball State Student Representative

Education
Masters: NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies
Biographical Studies, 2012
Thesis: The Shadow in the Shower: The Manipulation of Audience Expectations from Psycho to Pretty Poison

Bachelors: Ball State University
Media Studies (Film and Television Studies) and Public History, 2005
Thesis: Dead, Drunk or Just Forgotten: The Emasculation of Men in Early Screwball Comedies, 1934-1936
Ball State Honors Fellow (3 years)
        Research Assistant to biographer Wes Gehring
        "Pride and Prejudice" in Popular Culture
        Screwball Comedy's Influence on Film Noir

Areas of special interest: Casting, star studies, studio system, silent comedy, screwball comedy, television history, censorship, "New Hollywood", regional and local filmmaking.

contact at lesleycoffin@lesleycoffin.com
This Website is still very much a work in progress, please forgive the limited information.