Carl Bogner

Carl Bogner was a teacher, mentor, curator, writer, actor, a lifelong cinephile and voracious reader. Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Carl was on the Film faculty at the Peck School of the Arts from 1999 until his retirement in 2022. In honor of his work there and as Director for over twenty years of Milwaukee’s internationally renowned LGBT Film/Video Festival, he was awarded the P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on behalf of the LGBT community in 2023. Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia in 1984, Carl began his career as a bookseller in Virginia before moving to Madison in 1987. A year later, he…