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

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

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.

Publications
A Book about the Film Monty Python’s Meaning of Life (forthcoming, 2020, Rowman & Littlefield)
A Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian (2018, R&L)
A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (2015, R&L)
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 (2013, Taylor Trade; 2008, Scarecrow Press)
Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama (2003, McFarland)

Courses Taught
TMA 291-292 Film History
TMA 341 Nickelodeon Writer’s Series (short comedy)
TMA 441 Advanced Screenwriting
TMA 492R Genres: Science Fiction Film and Literature
TMA 497 Motion Picture Mirror of Our Times (Film Noir; Asian Cinemas)
TMA 498R Special Topics: Monty Python
Honors 304R The Films of Akira Kurosawa; History of American Animation
TMA 689 Graduate Film History and Theory
TMA 700 Graduate Seminars

Curriculum Vitae: Darl Larsen

Links
Star Wars (RadioWest)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (KBYU)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (RadioWest) 
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (RadioWest) 
Napoleon Dynamite: The Film With All the Skills (RadioWest) 
The Snell Show short story
The Snell Show movie

Books – Learn more about Darl Larsen’s publications on his Amazon author page and his publisher’s, Rowman & Littlefield, website.