founding editor of film/video reviews for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Since 2013, she has been the Editor in Chief of the journal, Film Quarterly. Awards Rich received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the 2007 Brudner Memorial Prize at Yale University. In 2012, she was awarded the Frameline Award – the first critic to receive this honor since Vito Russo was given the first. In 2014, the Guadalajara Film Festival presented her with its "Queer Icon" Maguey Award. References Further reading External links UC Santa Cruz Currents online - Film critic B. Ruby Rich Editorials for Film Quarterly American film critics Writers from Boston Living people Yale University alumni American editors University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Year of birth missing (living people)