Name: Darl Larsen

Title: Associate Chair, Professor

Email: darl@byu.edu

Division: Media Arts Critical Studies, Media Arts Fiction Production

Office: F-340 HFAC

Phone: 801-422-9184

Profile: Darl Larsen is Professor of Theatre & Media Arts and the Center for Animation at BYU, with emphases in film genres and history, animation, and screenwriting. His forthcoming work—A Book About the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian—will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018. A Book About the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail was published by R & L in 2015. He has also published two editions of Monty Python’s Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References From Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson to Zambesi (Scarecrow Press, 2013; 2008), and Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama (McFarland, 2003).

Education

Doctorate, Northern Illinois University, 2000; Master’s, Brigham Young University, 1993; Bachelor’s, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990