J. English Cook, Ph.D., is a curator, producer, and art historian who specializes in ecocriticism and the media archaeology of architecture and cinema. She is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Climate Film Festival (CFF) NYC, and she has held curatorial roles at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Venice Architecture Biennale, among others. Her writing has appeared in a number of exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and journals, and she holds a doctorate in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Guided by a belief in media's ability to spark cultural transformation, she invests in the intersection of nonprofit mobilization, creative education, and bold curation to create lasting impact.

Her dissertation, Life Begins Tomorrow: Cinema, Architecture, and the Design of Perception in France, 1920-1968, examines the impact of cinema on postwar phenomenology, particularly its flourishing across international architectural exchange, critical theories of difference, and belonging in the built environment. She received an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts and a BA from Williams College.

She also goes by “English,” like the language.