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Steven DeRosa has been teaching cinema studies and screenwriting for the School of Liberal Arts at ���Ҵ�ý University since 2011 and has been Associate Director for Writing and English at the Center for Academic Excellence and Innovation since 2015. In addition to teaching many courses within the Media Studies program, including The Language of Film, Film and Culture, and Advanced Writing for Film and Television. Steven curates the Cinema Studies concentration website which showcases student work and directs ���Ҵ�ý's Annual Student Screenwriting Competition. He has also served as coordinator of the ���Ҵ�ý University International Film Festival since 2021.

Steven is the author of Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes and is working on an authorized biography of producer Hal Wallis. He was a contributing writer to the 56th Annual Writers Guild of America Awards which aired on Starz/Encore. Additionally, he has been a film archivist, at one time managing the MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures outtake collections, and has worked in both production and post-production in various capacities.

Steven appears on-screen in the Italian documentary Viaggio nel Cinema in 3D: Una Storia Vintage, which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. He is also featured in the documentary The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style, in addition to numerous featurettes the Blu-ray releases of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest. In November 2020, he was featured on BBC's Talking Movies discussing the breakthrough TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Steven has lectured on screenwriting and film at NYU's Hitchcock Centennial Conference, The American Museum of the Moving Image, Film Forum and at the New World Stages in New York City. He regularly hosts film discussions at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Yonkers, where he began a partnership between the theater and ���Ҵ�ý University to program several films each semester to coincide with his courses. To date, students from his Hitchcock Disciples, Hollywood's Golden Age, Masters of Film, Hollywood Western and Screen Comedy & Clowns courses have attended screenings and discussions at the theater. More recently, Steven gave presentations at HitchCon '21 and HitchCon '22, both funded by Faculty Development Grants, and helped to bring HitchCon '23—the International Alfred Hitchcock Conference—to ���Ҵ�ý's Westchester Campus in October 2023.

Steven's dedication to his students and passion for teaching film earned him the ���Ҵ�ý University Teaching Excellence Award in 2018 and 2022. He has also been awarded numerous Faculty Senate Micro-Grants and Instructional Enhancement Grants. He received his BS from Pace University in Art and from The New School, he received his MA in Media Studies with a Screenwriting concentration.