Caroline Grant once spent nearly three years writing a dissertation about American cinema that roughly seven people read (including her mom). Now a mother herself, she writes about movies for a broader audience (including her mom) in her Literary Mama column, Mama at the Movies. She puts her teaching background to good use as an editor at Literary Mama, where she co-edits the Literary Reflections section. She is currently at work on an anthology about combining motherhood and academic work called Mama, Ph.D. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught classes on film, women's studies, American literature, and writing; she has also taught at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons, and offers up recipes and stories of family life on her blog: food for thought.