Kevin
C. Almeroth
Vice
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
His main research interests include computer networks and protocols, multicast
communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and performance evaluation. At
UCSB, Dr. Almeroth is a founding member of the Media Arts and Technology Program
(MATP), Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society
(CITS), and on the Executive Committee for the University of California Digital
Media Innovation (DiMI) program. In the research community, Dr. Almeroth is
on the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Network
and ACM Computers in Entertainment; has co-chaired a number of conferences and
workshops including the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP),
FIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
(MMNS), the ACM Network and System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV)
workshop, the Network Group Communication (NGC) workshop, and the Global Internet
Symposium; and has been on the program committee of numerous conferences. Dr.
Almeroth is serving as the chair of the Internet2 Working Group on Multicast,
and is active in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). He also serves on the boards or directors and/or advisory boards of
several startups including Occam Networks, Techknowledge Point, NCast, and the
Santa Barbara Technology Group. Dr. Almeroth has also served as an expert witness
in a number of interesting patent cases. He is a Member of the ACM and a Senior
Member of the IEEE.
Allison Anders
Distinguished
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Anders is a Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker. In 1995 she was the recipient
of a MacArthur “genius grant” and in 2002 she won a George Foster Peabody Award
for distinguished achievement and meritorious service for her semi-autobiographical
film Things Behind the Sun. From the release of her acclaimed first feature,
Border Radio (1989; co-written and co-directed with Kurt Voss) through the recent
critical and popular success of Things Behind the Sun, Anders has established
a body of work that is innovative in its visual and sound style and marked by
ensemble acting and strong women characters. Her films as writer-director also
include Gas Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (1993), Grace of My Heart (1996),
and Sugar Town (1999; co-directed with Kurt Voss). Anders’ films have premiered
at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the prestigious Sundance Film
Festival, and retrospectives of her work have been held in Thessaloniki, Greece;
Sheffield, England; and at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
At UCSB she teaches courses including rock ‘n’ roll films, autobiographic writing,
and music supervision.
Shankar Aswani
Sociocultural Associate Professor
aswani@anth.ucsb.edu
Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1997; Associate Professor (Maritime anthropology,
behavioral ecology, indigenous ecological knowledge, common property resources,
exchange, social stratification, ethnohistory; Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Tonga,
Hawaii) http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/aswani
Denise
Bielby
Professor of Sociology
bielbyd@soc.ucsb.edu
Denise Bielby is Professor of Sociology at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the culture industries
of television and film, media and popular culture, gender studies, and organizational
analysis. As a statistical consultant to the Writers Guild of America, west,
she published a series of influential research monographs documenting the systematic
barriers faced by women, writers of color, and older writers in the industry.
Her recent research focuses on the impact of industry concentration on the creative
community and the global market for television import/export. Her publications
have appeared in numerous scholarly journals including the Journal of Broadcasting
& Electronic Media, Television and New Media, American Journal of Sociology,
American Sociological Review, and Journal of Popular Culture. She is the co-author
(with C. Lee Harrington) of Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning
in Everyday Life, and Popular Culture: Production and Consumption.
Bruce
Bimber
Associate
Professor of Political Science
Director of the UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society
bimber@polsci.ucsb.edu
Professor Bimber's research deals with the relationship between evolving means
of political communication and changes in political organization, collective
action, social capital, and political deliberation. He has a particular interest
in uses of contemporary information technology and their consequences for political
organization and behavior. His book Information and American Democracy:
Technology in the Evolution of Political Power is forthcoming from Cambridge
University Press, and his book The Internet in U.S. Elections will
appear in 2003 from Oxford. He is also author of The Politics of Expertise
in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment,
and of articles dealing with technology and politics. Prior to joining the UCSB
faculty, he worked for RAND in Washington, DC in a policy analysis department
contracted to provide advice to the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy.
James
Blascovich
Professor,
Psychology
Dr. Blascovich earned his B.S. in psychology at Loyola University of Chicago
(1968) and Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno (1972).
He held academic positions at the University of Nevada, Reno (72-73), Marquette
University (73-80), and SUNY at Buffalo (80-95) before coming to UCSB. He Co-Directs
the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior. Jim is currently
the President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc (Div.
8 of APA), and is a past President of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
He is a Member of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, a Charter Fellow
of the American Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the American Psychological
Association. Recently, he was awarded the Inaugural Australasian Social Psychology
Society/Society of Personality and Social Psychology Teaching Fellowship (2002).
He has also received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Research at UCSB (2001). He has served on several grant review panels and was
appointed to the National Academy of Science/National Research Council Committee
to Evaluate the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph. He serves on the editorial
boards of several journals including Psychological Science and the Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology. The National Science Foundation has
continuously funded his research for more than 15 years.
Peter
Bloom
Assistant
Professor of Film and Media Studies
pbloom@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Peter J. Bloom is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at UCSB.
His ongoing research examines the relationship between French colonial cinema,
the history of ethnographic film, postcolonial francophone visual culture, and
historical practices of media production. He has presented his work internationally,
curated film programs, and has published more than a dozen articles on colonial
cinema, early hygiene films, francophone African cinema, and the history of
French anthropology in French and English. He is currently working on a book
manuscript entitled Colonial Suture: Cinematic Legacies of French Geographic
Sensationism. Before arriving at UCSB he was Assistant Professor of English
at Indiana University, Indianapolis. He completed his Ph.D. in 1997 at the UCLA
Critical Studies Program, and has served as a University of California President’s
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Davis.
Jacqueline
Bobo
Professor
and Chair of the Women’s Studies Program
Chair of the Department of Black Studies
Bobo@womst.ucsb.edu
Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies, University of Oregon
Professor Bobo’s research and scholarship are concerned with Black women as
producers, cultural consumers, and scholars of cultural forms. Her publications
include: Black Women as Cultural Readers (Columbia, 1995); Black
Women Film and Video Artists (Routledge, 1998); Black Feminist Cultural
Criticism (Blackwell, 2001); Black Studies: Current Issues, Enduring
Questions (Kendall/Hunt, 2001); and, Centering Black Studies: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives (forthcoming Routledge, 2003). She also serves on the University
of California Press Editorial Board.
Edward
Branigan
Professor
of Film and Media Studies
branigan@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
1979 Ph.D., 1974 J.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor Branigan's areas of specialty include classical film theory, film
analysis, and film narrative. He has won a UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award
and his 1992 book, Narrative Comprehension and Film, won the Kovacs
book prize "for the most distinguished achievement of the year in Cinema Studies."
He and his colleague Prof. Charles Wolfe are general editors of a 15 volume
book series and are currently working with Anna Everett and John Caldwell on
the project Digitextuality: Theses on Convergence Media and Digital Reproduction.
Forthcoming research from Professor Branigan includes: How Frame Lines Figure,
which investigates the language of film, The Sixth Sense of the Spectator,
which examines how the spectator makes use of judgement heuristics in the interpretation
of film; and a book, When Is a Camera? about our ability to talk about
and imagine film.
Jung-Bong
Choi
Assistant
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Professor Jung-Bong Choi’s works interweave sociological paradigms with critical
and cultural theories. His interests include the political economy of globalization,
postmodern humanity in digital media, and poscolonial cultural geography in
East Asia. He was the organizer of an International conference titled "Unsettling
East Asia, Interrogating Communication" in 2001. His works have been published
in Social Identities, Journal of International Communication, and Journal of
Communication INquiry. He is currently co-editing a book dedicated to contemporary
Japanese television.
Dr.
Keith C. Clarke
Research
Cartographer and Professor of Geography
He holds the B.A. degree with honours from Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England,
and the M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Michigan, specializing in Analytical
Cartography. Dr. Clarke's most recent research has been on environmental simulation
modeling, on modeling
urban growth using cellular automata, on terrain mapping and analysis, and
on the history of the CORONA
remote sensing program. Dr. Clarke is the former North American Editor of
the International
Journal of Geographical Information Systems, and is series editor for the
Prentice
Hall Series in Geographic Information Science. He is the author of the textbooks,
Analytical and
Computer Cartography (Prentice Hall, 1995), Getting
Started with GIS (1997) and about eighty book chapters, journal articles,
and papers in the fields of cartography, remote sensing, and geographic information
systems. In 1990 and 1991 Dr. Clarke was a NASA
/American Society for Engineering Education Fellow at Stanford University, and
in 1992 served as Science Advisor to the Office of Research, National Mapping
Division of the U.S.
Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia. Since 1997, he has been the Santa
Barbara Director of the National
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.
Jon
Cruz
Associate
Professor of Sociology
Chair of Asian American Studies
Teaching areas and research interests include culture; sociology of knowledge;
American racial history; media. Some key publications are “Ethnosympathy: Reflections
on an American Dilemma,” Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice
(Roger Friedland & John Mohr, eds., 2003); “Nineteenth Century U.S. Religious
Crisis and the Sociology of Music” Poetics, (2002); “Historicizing the American
Cultural Turn: The Slave Narrative,” European Jouranl of Cultural Studies (2001);
Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural
Interpretation (1999).
Dana
Driskel
Lecturer
and Head of Production of Film and Media Studies
driskel@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
A graduate of both UCSB Film and Media Studies and USC Cinema/Television, Dana Driskel
has devoted more than twenty years to teaching filmmaking here at UCSB while
making over forty professional works from experimental dance to historical documentary.
Specialties include documentary, animation and environmental media.
Anna
Everett
Associate
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Director, Center for Black Studies
everett@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
1996 Ph.D., University of Southern California School of Cinema- TV and Critical
Studies Anna Everett works in the fields of film and TV history/theory, African-American
film and culture, and Digital Media Technologies. She is the author of Returning
the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 (Duke Univ. Press,
2001) and is currently at work on books titled Digital Diaspora: A Race
for Cyberspace, and Inside the Dark Museum: An Anthology of Black Film
Criticism, 1909-1959. Recent articles include: “The Revolution Will Be
Digitized: Afrocentricity and the Digital Public Sphere” (Social Text, Summer
2002), “The Black Press in the Age of Digital Reproduction” (The Black Press,
2001), “‘I Want the Same Things Other People Enjoy’: The Black Press and the
Classic Hollywood Studio System” (Spectator, 1997), and “The Other Pleasures:
The Narrative Function of Race in the Cinema" (Film Criticism, 1995-96). She
is founder and managing editor of the Internet newsletter, Screening Noir
Online; and she is currently co-organizing the conference titled "Race
in Digital Space 2.0." Everett is the recent winner of the prestigious UCSB
Plous Award, the top recognition for younger faculty at UCSB.
Richard
Falk
Visiting
Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies
Dr. Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton
University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International
Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book,
The Great Terror War (2003), considers the American response to September
11, including its relationship to the patriotic duties of American Citizens.
In 2001 he served on a three person Human Rights Inquiry Commission for the
Palestine Territories that was appointed by the United Nations, and previously,
on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is the author or coauthor
of numerous books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance; Human
Rights Horizons; On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics; Explorations
at the Edge of Time; Revolutionaries and Functionaries; The Promise of World
Order; Indefensible Weapons; Human Rights and State Sovereignty; A Study of
Future Worlds; This Endangered Planet; coeditor of Crimes of War.
He serves as Chair of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Board of Directors
and as honorary vice president of the American Society of International Law.
Falk also acted as counsel to Ethiopia and Liberia in the Southwest Africa Case
before the International Court of Justice. He received his B.S. from the Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania; L.L.B. from Yale Law School; and J.S.D.
from Harvard University.
Andrew
Flanagin
Associate
Professor of Communication
flanagin@comm.ucsb.edu
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Professor Flanagin’s research focuses on the ways in which communication and
information technologies structure human interaction, with emphases on the contemporary
media environment, collaborative technologies, collective action among organizational
members, and organizational theory. Recent projects have examined how inter-
and intra-organizational patterns of communication and information sharing are
supported by technological systems, computer-supported collaborative work, and
Internet usage issues. His work has been published in Human Communication
Research, Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Research, Journalism
and Mass Communication Quarterly, Organization Science, New Media and Society,
Communication Theory, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Victor
F. Fuentes
Professor,
Department Chair, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of New York, 1965
Nineteenth and Twentieth century Spanish literature; Spanish and Latin American
avant-garde, postmodernism, film and theater; literary and cultural criticism.
Among his books are: La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas 1917-1936
(1980); El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo (1981);
Galdos, republicano y demócrata. Escritos políticos 1906-1913
(1982); Buñuel: Cine y literatura (1989); Benjamín Jarnés:
Bio-grafía y metaficción (1989); Buñuel en México
(1993); editor, La otra cara del 27: la novela social española 1923-1939 (Letras Peninsulares, Spring 1993); a critical edition of La regenta (Akal 1999);
Antología de la poesía bohemia española, temas y figuras (Celeste 1999); numerous
articles, chapters, and reviews on Spanish and Hispanic modern and contemporary
literature, film, and sociocultural history. Los mundos de Buñuel (2000); a
critical edition of Misericordia (Akal 2000); Editor of a monograph on Multilingual
and Plurinational Spain (Letras Peninsulares, 2002).
Kip
Fulbeck
Professor,
Art Studio, Performative Studies/Video
Kip Fulbeck specializes in narrative, fictional autobiography, race/ethnicity
classification, and pop-culture analysis. He has performed and exhibited widely,
including the Whitney Biennial, the Singapore International Film Festival, the
Bonn Videonale, the World Wide Video Festival, and the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe,
as well as twice keynoted the National Conference On Race in Higher Education.
An affiliate faculty in the Asian American Studies Department and an ocean lifeguard,
he is the author of Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography. He received his
Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego. http://www.redsushi.com.
Colin
Gardner
Associate
Professor of Art Studio
colinrgardner@cox.net
Working at the intersection of film, art and interdisciplinary media theory,
Colin Gardner earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at U.C.L.A. before
becoming Associate Professor in critical theory and interdisciplinary media
at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the departments
of Art, the History of Art and Architecture, Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature.
He has completed a book-length critical study of the blacklisted film director,
Joseph Losey, which will be published in 2004 by Manchester University Press
in their "British Film Makers" series. Extracts and related research have already
appeared in the Franco-American film journal, Iris; the Parisian web-based theoretical
journal, Critical Secret No. 6 (2001), and Interdisciplinary Humanities (2002).
He is currently researching a career-length book on the Czech-born British filmmaker,
Karel Reisz (Manchester University Press, 2005). Gardner is also the author
of critical essays on Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin
Gardens (for Creation Books' Jack Nicholson: Movie Top Ten and Site Street Journal
respectively); as well as a theoretical study of Diana Thater's video installations
in Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art (Erika Suderberg, ed.)
for the University of Minnesota Press. His extensive list of catalog monographs
include essays on Mike Kelley for the Whitney Museum of American Art, John Baldessari
for the Graphische Sammlung, Albertina in Vienna, Wallace Berman for the Institute
of Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, video artist Rachel Khedoori for the Kunsthalle
in Basel. Gardner has worked extensively with the Santa Barbara Contemporary
Arts Forum (CAF), including catalog essays for Sandow Birk's "Prisonation" series,
Linda Stark's "Runaway Love" retrospective, and the 2001 group exhibition, "Diabolical
Beauty," co-curated with UCSB Professor, Jane Callister.
Renée
Green
Distinguished
Artist and Professor of Art Studio
rgreen@arts.ucsb.edu
Renée Green is an artist, filmmaker and writer. Her exhibitions, videos and
films have been seen throughout the world in museums, biennales and festivals,
most recently in Documenta XI and in "Sonic Process" at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
She has contributed writings to Texte zur Kunst, Spex, October, Transition,
Frieze, Flash Art and many other publications. Her books include, Negotiations
in the Contact Zone,(Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, 2003) Between and Including (Secession/Dumont,
Vienna/Germany, 2001), Shadows and Signals (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
2000), Certain Miscellanies (DAAD, Berlin/De Appel, Amsterdam, 1996), After
the Ten Thousand Things (Stroom, The Hague, 1994), Camino Road, (Free Agent
Media/ Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid,1994), World Tour(Museum of Contempary Art,
Los Angeles, 1993.) Formerly a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
she is now a Distinguished Artist/professor in the Studio Art department of
the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Avery
Gordon
Professor,
Sociology
Teaching and research interests include social theory; race; gender; culture
and art; radical theory and politics. Some key publications: Keeping Good Time
(2003); Ghostly Matters (1997); Mapping Multiculturalism (ed., 1996); “White
Philosophy,” Critical Inquiry (coauthor, 1994).
Dick
Hebdige
Professor
of Film and Media Studies and Art Studio
Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
hebdige@ihc.ucsb.edu
M.A Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham, United Kingdom
A cultural critic and theorist, Hebdige has published widely on youth subculture,
contemporary music, art and design, and consumer and media culture. His books
include: Subculture: The Meaning of Style (Methuen, 1979); Cut
'n' Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music (Methuen, 1987); and Hiding
in the Light: On Images and Things (Routledge, Methuen, 1988). His current
interests include the integration of autobiography and mixed media in critical
writing and pedagogy.
Richard
Hecht
Professor
of Religious Studies
ariel@religion.ucsb.edu
Richard D. Hecht is Professor of Religious Studies. He is the Associate Editor
of Ninian Smart's series The Religions of the World published by Laurence King
and Prentice Hall, with Roger Friedland, To Rule Jerusalem (Cambridge University
Press and University of California Press, 1996 and 2000), and he is completing
a new book project on religion and contemporary art with Linda Ekstrom (College
of Creative Studies). He is particularly interested in the connections between
religion and culture, and annually teaches a course on religion and film.
Lisa
Jevbratt
Assistant
Professor of Digital Media, Art Studio
jevbratt@arts.ucsb.edu
Lisa Jevbratt is a Swedish systems/network artist working primarily with the
Internet. She is an assistant professor at University of California in Santa
Barbara (UCSB) in the Art Department and the Media Arts &Technology program.
Jevbratt got her education in art and computers at Konstfack, Malmo Konstskola
Forum and CADRE (San Jose State University). Her work, which explores the aesthetic,
political and cultural implications of the languages and protocols constituting
information technologies, has been exhibited and presented internationally;
in venues such as The New Museum (New York), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis),
Ars Electronica (Linz), Transmediale (Berlin), Electrohype 2002 (Malmoe, Sweden),
the 2002 Whitney Biennial (New York), Ciberart Bilbao 2004 (Spain), VARK 04
(Denmark). In the winter of 2004 she was an NIFCA (Nordic Institute of Contemporary
Art) Artist In Resident at the Media Centre in Huddersfield, England. She has
been a board member of the New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, curating
the Net Work program. She is an affiliate of the Silicon Valley collaborative
research endeavor C5. Website http://jevbratt.com
Nancy
Kawalek
Studio Professor in Film and Media Studies and Media Arts
& Technology
kawalek@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
www.proartslab.ucsb.edu
Nancy Kawalek is a Studio Professor in Film and Media Studies and Media Arts & Technology
and Founder/Director of the Professional
Artists Lab, an artistic laboratory in which professional actors, directors,
writers and producers create, develop and present new works for theatre, film,
television, radio and multi-media performance. She is a professional New York
theatre-trained actor with 25 years experience, including work on and off Broadway
and in regional theatre, as well as in film, television, numerous commercials,
and on National Public Radio's acclaimed Selected Shorts series. Among her credits
as a director is the documentary film, Lost and Found. Her research interests
are currently focused on the creation and development of multi-media theatre
work.
George
Legrady
Professor
of Interactive Media with a joint appointment in the Art Studio Department and
Media Arts & Technology Program
legrady@arts.ucsb.edu
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
Professor Legrady’s current research is at once interdisciplinary, theoretical,
and practical. In both his interactive digital art installations and his teaching,
he is exploring the use of visualization technologies to interface with dynamically
organized data (e.g., "self-organizing maps" of datasets). Laboratory research
and production activities aim to function as a testing environment for visualization
solutions according to the needs of the engineer (technically sound), the designer
(emphasis on visual communication) and the public (clear but engaging). In short,
he produces innovative interface design with engineering data mining interests
within the framework of user accessibility and interests. Recent interactive
installation exhibitions have taken place at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Pockets
full of Memories), 2001; the new Richard Meier designed Siemens World Headquarters
in Munich (Transitional Spaces), 1999/2000; the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, (Tracing) 1998; and the Kunst und AustellungHalle
der Bundes Republik in Bonn. His newest project Sensing Speaking Space was
recently presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Daniel
Linz
Professor
of Communication
linz@comm.ucsb.edu
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Professor Linz’s expertise lies in the psychological effects of mass media and
in communication and law. His recent research extends into two major areas:
Pornography and the questions it raises about how consumers respond to images,
as well as whether or not they are influenced by the representations they see;
and the Choices and Consequences project in which he and colleagues
study Court-TV’s Anti-Violence Curriculum, which seeks to create change in adolescents’
decision-making and risk-assessment skills; especially measuring empathy, appreciation
of the consequences of their actions for others, and the knowledge of appropriate
legal terms.
Alan
Liu
Professor
of English
ayliu@english.ucsb.edu
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980
Professor Liu specializes in British Romantic literature and art, digital culture
and new media studies, literary theory, cultural studies and postindustrialism.
He is the author of Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford Univ.
Press, 1989) and The Laws of Cool: The Culture of Information (Stanford
Univ. Press, 2003); various articles on theory, Romanticism the eighteenth century,
and literature and technology, including "The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism"
(ELH, 1989); "Wordsworth and Subversion: Trying Cultural Criticism" (Yale
Journal of Criticism, 1989); "Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism,
Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail" (Representations, 1990);
"The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning" (Studies in Romanticism,
1996); "Knowledge in the Age of Knowledge Work" (Profession, 1999); "The Future
Literary: Literature and the Culture of Information" (in Time and the Literary,
Routledge, 2002). Major web projects include: Voice of the Shuttle; Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation; and The Romantic Chronology (co-edited
with Laura Mandell). Alan Liu is director of the English Department's digital
humanities project titled Transcriptions: Literary History and the Culture
of Information and co-director of the Department's Literature and Culture
of Information specialization for undergraduates and Public Humanities Initiative.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.
His recent graduate seminars include Romantic Landscape, Historical Interpretation,
Culture of Information, and Hypertext Literature.
Didier
Maleuvre
Associate
Professor, French and Italian
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature; Aesthetic Theory, Philosophy,
History of Art. Has published articles on art, literature, and philosophy. Most
recent articles include "Can We Believe Darwin?", "The Heart of Kant's Ethics,"
"Emerson on Patience" and "Is Aesthetic Understanding Always Interpretive?".
He is the author of a book on museums and the philosophy of art in the modern
period, entitled Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (Stanford UP, 1999).
Current research interests include a book in progress on individualism in the
framework of moral philosophy.
Miriam
Metzger
Assistant
Professor of Communication
Associate Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media
metzger@comm.ucsb.edu
Professor
Metzger received her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the
University of Southern California in 1997. After serving as a Visiting Assistant
Professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Metzger joined the faculty at UCSB
in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. She is interested in the social uses and
effects of both traditional and newer computer-based media forms. Her research
includes studies of the credibility of information in the new media environment,
problems of online privacy and security, and the impact of news and political
communication on public opinion, and the theoretical and regulatory changes
brought about by the development of new media technologies.
Robin Nabi
Associate Professor of Communication
nabi@comm.ucsb.edu
Robin Nabi joined the Department of Communication in 2004 after six years as
an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona. Prof. Nabi received her
PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania,
and her research interests focus on the interplay between emotion and cognition
in understanding the effects of mediated messages. Specific interests include
the effects of discrete emotions on the cognitive processing of messages on
social/health-related issues, the role of emotion in perception of risk and
decision-making, the effects of entertainment media on attitude and behavior
change, and factors that impact selective exposure to and perception of fictional
TV programming. Her work has appeared in several journals, including Communication
Theory, Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication,
Media Psychology, and Cognition and Emotion. Prof. Nabi has also served or is
serving on the editorial boards of several journals, including Human Communication
Research, Communication Monographs, and Journal of Communication, and she was
a co-editor of a special issue of Communication Theory focused on conceptualizing
media enjoyment.
Prof. Nabi’s teaching interests include social influence, health communication,
communication and emotion, and mass media effects. Her current research projects
focus on the role of emotion in media use and perceptions of health threats,
the persuasive effects of humor, and perceptions of reality-based TV.
Catherine
Nesci
Associate
Professor, French and Women’s Studies
Nineteenth-century literature, cinema, francophone women writers and directors,
feminism, Balzac, literary theory, sociocriticism, cultural and urban studies.
Recent publications include: a collection of essays in honor of Lucienne Frappier-Mazur,
Corps/Décors: Femmes, Orgie, Parodie, associate editors, Gretchen Van
Slyke and Gerald Prince (1999); a book on Balzac, La Femme mode d'emploi,
(1992); an edited journal, with Didier Maleuvre, (1996); various articles on
Balzac, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Nodier, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dumas père, Olympe
de Gouges and Flora Tristan, in such journals as SubStance, Michigan Romance
Studies, French Forum, L'année balzacienne, and Romantisme. Currently working
on a book on women, citizenship and the city in France. Most recent distinction:
Chevalière dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
Christopher
Newfield
Professor,
English
He received his Ph.D. in American literature from Cornell
University in 1988, and his central interests include: American culture after
1830, with particular attention to fiction since 1940; race; sexuality; affect;
crime; California; and corporate culture. Professor Newfield is currently at
work on two projects: The Empowerment Wars, which explores the literature,
management theory, and everyday life of cubicle dwellers in corporate America;
and Starting Up, Starting Over, an eyewitness account of the underside
of the "New Economy" in Southern California.
Marcos
Novak
Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Technology
marcos@mat.ucsb.edu
Marcos Novak is a pioneer in the field of virtual architecture. In the mid 90s,
his contribution to International architectural discourse was further expanded
by the coining and definition of the term "Transarchitectures". His approach:
"we conceive algorithmically (morphogenesis); we model numerically (rapid prototyping);
we build robotically (new tectonics); we inhabit interactively (intelligent
space); we telecommunicate instantly (pantopicon); we are informed immersively
(liquid architectures); we socialise nonlocally (nonlocal public domain); we
evert virtuality (transarchitectures)." He has also posited a new "Soft Babylon,"
a theoretical stance which posits that our digitized architectural palette is
causing us to create a wired Situationist city, while we struggle with some
of the massive paradigm shifts that our era will and must face. Whilst articulating
highly fluent theory, he has practiced, producing beautiful ethereal architectures
that flux and shimmer as his algorithms run their designed logics. He received
the Masters of Architecture at Ohio State university in 1983. Since that time
he has taught at Ohio State, University of Texas Austin, the Architecture program
at UCLA, the Digital Media program at UCLA, Art Center College of Art & design,
Pasadena. He has published, lectured and exhibited his work internationally.
Lisa
Parks
Associate
Professor of Film and Media Studies
parks@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
1998 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison-Department of
Communication Arts, Media and Cultural Studies Program, Minor: Technology and
Culture
Lisa Parks is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Affiliate of Women’s Studies
at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Parks is the author of Cultures
in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke University Press 2003) and
co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Studies Reader (NYU Press
2002) and of Red Noise: Television Studies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(Duke University Press, 2003). She is co-producer of Experiments in
Satellite Media Arts, a DVD produced at the Makrolab in 2002, and is developing
a website called Satellite Crossings, which will host satellite art
and public interest projects. Parks is also a co-investigator on several funded
projects including the Oxygen Media Research Project (UCSB) and the Geography
and Visual Culture Project (Zurich). She has published articles in numerous
books and in journals such as Screen, Television and New Media, Convergence:
A Journal of New Media Technologies, Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geography
and Social Identities. She has also produced activist videos on media globalization
and satellite imaging for Paper Tiger TV and serves on the editorial boards
of The Velvet Light Trap: Journal of Film and Television Studies, CULT-STUD
L, Intensities. She teaches courses in global media, television history,
video art and activism, war and media, advanced film analysis, and feminist
media criticism, and has given lectures in New Zealand, Holland, England, Denmark,
Germany, Bosnia, Slovenia, and Switzerland. Her new research “Kinetic Screens:
Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface” examines and develops definitions
of “motion,” “mobility,” and “movement” in the context of recent technological
transformations. Parks is also working on an essay about media coverage of the
war in Afghanistan.
Marko
Peljhan
Assistant
Professor of Media Arts and Technology
peljhan@arts.ucsb.edu
Marko
Peljhan born 1969 in Sempeter pri Gorici, studied theatre and radio directing
at the University of Ljubljana and in 1992 founded the arts organisation Projekt
Atol in the frame of which he works in the performance, visual arts, situation
and communications fields. In 1995 he founded the technological branch of Projekt
Atol PACT SYSTEMS, co-founded LJUDMILA and from 1996 on worked at LJUDMILA (Ljubljana
Digital Media Lab) as a programs coordinator on many different fields. He is
also coordinator of the international INSULAR TECHNOLOGIES initiative (www.insular.net)
and the Makrolab (makrolab.ljudmila.org) project as well as coordinator of flights
for zero-gravity artistic projects in conjunction with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Centre in Moscow. In 2001 he became member of the strategic council
for information society established by the government of the Republic of Slovenia.
He also invented and coordinated the production of a mobile media lab project,
Transhub-01, which was first realised as MOBILATORIJ and now succesfully travels
europe. His work was presented at major international exhibitions such as documenta
X in Kassel, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Ars Electronica, Media City Seoul
and Manifesta. In 2000 he received the special Medienkunst prize at the ZKM
and in 2001 the Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai.
His ongoing laboratory project Makrolab, focusing on telecommunications, migrations
and weather systems has been set up in northern Scotland this summer, and previously
at other places including Australia and at the international art fair Documenta
X in Kassel. Marko has exhibited in Japan at Canonlab amongst other projects,
and also been working with the Russian Space Agency getting dancers from UK
up into zero gravity space.
Constance
Penley
Professor
of Film and Media Studies
Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media
penley@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Professor
Penley's major areas of research interest are film history and theory, feminist
theory, cultural studies, contemporary art, and science and technology studies.
She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Media, Cultural Studies.
Her most recent work includes NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America
and The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Science and Gender (ed.
with Treichler and Cartwright). Her collaborative art projects include "MELROSE
SPACE: Primetime Art by the GALA Committee" and "Biospheria:
An Environmental Opera," on which she was co-librettist.
James
Potter
Professor
of Communication
wjpotter@comm.ucsb.edu
Ph.D., Florida State University
Professor Potter’s research foci include media processes, effects, and literacy;
and communication theory and methods. In his book Media Literacy, Professor
Potter emphasizes the importance of media literacy in our society, identifying
important concepts such as message saturation, and seeking to define key theories
and terms for students of mass media processes and effects. The goal of the
book is to build media literacy skills by urging students to think critically
about the media and to understand the impact of commercial advertising, media
industries, economic perspectives, media effects, and influences on media institutions.
Rita
Raley
Assistant
Professor, English
Dr. Raley came to UCSB in 2001 from the University of Minnesota, where she taught
as an Assistant Professor of English for three years. Her research and teaching
interests include the digital humanities; global studies; and nineteenth- and
twentieth-century literature in an “international” or “global” context (including
work in colonial and postcolonial studies). She is currently completing one
book, Global English and the Academy, and working on a second concerning
digital textuality. In 2002-2003, she will be co-director of the Literature
and Culture of Information specialization.
Ronald
E. Rice
Arthur
N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, Co-Director,
Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media
rrice@cftnm.ucsb.edu
Before coming to University
of California at Santa Barbara as the Rupe Chair, Dr. Rice (Ph.D., Stanford)
was Distinguished Professor, and Chair, of the Department of Communication,
at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University,
and Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. He has co-authored
or co-edited Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement and
Interaction (2002), The Internet and Health Communication (2001);
Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication (2001); Public
Communication Campaigns (3 editions); Research Methods and the New
Media (1988); Managing Organizational Innovation (1987); and The
New Media: Communication, Research and Technology (1984). He has conducted
research and published widely in communication science, public communication
campaigns, computer-mediated communication systems, methodology, organizational
and management theory, information systems, information science and bibliometrics,
and social networks.
Lawrence
Rickels
Professor
of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
The genealogy of media (of both occult mediums and media technologies), Freud,
psychoanalytic theories, and the overlaps (for example in Frankfurt school thought
as in deconstruction) between psychoanalysis and various other critical discourses.
Author of Aberrations of Mourning (1988), Der unbetrauerbare Tod
(1990), The Case of California (1991), and The Vampire Lectures
(1999), and editor of Looking After Nietzsche (1990), Gottfried Keller's Jugenddramen
(1990), and Acting Out in Groups (1999). In Spring 2002, his three-volume
study, Nazi Psychoanalysis will be published. Professor Rickels is
both a theorist and psychotherapist, and, switching to the art world setting,
regular contributor to Artforum, Art + Text, and Flash
Art. He has taught at Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art
and Design, Umeå University and Universität Düsseldorf. Recent
graduate courses included seminars on Goethe, the Frankfurt School, and Hegel.
Professor Rickels' personal site is http://www.hydra.umn.edu/twd/
Cedric
J. Robinson
Professor,
Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science
He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his MA and
Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has served as Chair of the Department of
Black Studies as well as of Political Science and has also served as the Director
of the Center for Black Studies at UCSB. His fields of teaching and research
are modern political thought, radical social theory in the African Diaspora,
comparative politics, and media and politics. Dr. Robinson is the author of
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Terms of Order:
Political Science and the Myth of Leadership and Black Movements in America.
He is also the author of numerous articles on US, African and Caribbean political
thought; Western social theory, film and the press. His most recent work includes
The Anthropology of Marxism, a monograph study of the historical and
discursive antecedents of Marxism, and research into anti-facism in Africa and
the African Diaspora in the 1920s and 1930s.
Chela
N. J. Sandoval
Associate
Professor, Chicano Studies
Ph.D. - University of California, Santa Cruz, Associate Professor.
Research interests include Cultural Theory, Gender/Sexuality, Cyber Studies,
and The History of Consciousness.
Bhaskar
Sarkar
Assistant
Professor of Film and Media Studies
bhaskar@mindspring.com
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Specializing in international cinema, post-colonial media theory, globalization,
Marxist cultural theory, and history and memory, Professor Sarkar’s work addresses
cinematic mediations of modernity and nationhood. He is completing a book manuscript
on the traces of a particular historical trauma- the partition of India at the
time of its independence from colonial British rule in subsequent Indian films.
He has also started preliminary work on a study of cinematic cosmopolitanism
in the WWII-era. He is generally interested in issues of cultural colonization
and sovereignty in the age of globalization: for instance, how does Chinese
or Indian Media interact with Hollywood in our transnational era? He is also
interested in delineating the network of relations constituting the global cultural
economy.
Celine
Parreñas Shimizu
Assistant
Professor of Asian American Studies
shimizu@asamst.ucsb.edu
Ph.D. from Stanford University, 2001, M.F.A., UCLA Film and
Television, 1996, and BA, UC Berkeley, 1992
Professor Shimizu works as a film scholar and film/videomaker. As Assistant
Professor of Film and Video in Asian American Studies and Affiliate Faculty
in Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, she teaches
social theory, sexuality and film theory as well as television and film production.
She is currently completing her book In Asian Women: Sexing Race on Screen
and Scene, which traces the “Asian Woman” as a hypersexual fantasy produced
in western modern moving image visual cultures from early cinema, stag pornography
to contemporary musicals. She is also an internationally screened and award-winning
filmmaker whose most recently completed digital film The Fact of Asian Women
(2002) explores the production and consumption of Asian female femme fatales
as fantasy and fetish in Hollywood.
Sven
Spieker
Associate
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies and the Department of History
of Art and Architecture
He received his B.A. in Slavics from the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies (University of London). He continued his studies at Merton College (Oxford
University) and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is
the author of Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose:
Postmodernism and the Quest for History (1996) and G0G0L: Exploring
Absence: Negativity in 19th-Century Russian Literature (1999). Spieker
is particularly interested in Russian and East-Central European literatures,
contemporary art, the theory and practice of the historical avant-garde (especially
in Russia and East-Central Europe), and the interplay of media, art, and philosophy.
Spieker is the editor of ARTMargins,
an online journal for contemporary art and aesthetic theory in East-Central
Europe. In 2001, Spieker organized, with Wolf Kittler, the international
conference "Packrats and Bureaucrats. Study in the Archive." Spieker is currently
completing a book-length manuscript on archives in modernist culture. For more
information, visit his
personal web page.
Matthew
Turk
Associate
Professor, Computer Science and Media Arts and Technology Program
Research interests: Computer vision and imaging, perceptual interfaces, multimodal
interaction, human-computer interaction, gesture recognition, artificial intelligence.
Dr. Turk’s research is mostly concerned with using vision as an input modality.
That means using cameras (and other sensors) to perceive relevant information
about people - e.g., identity, facial expression, body movement, gestures -
and then using this information to improve the interface between humans and
computers. This is part of a larger agenda, developing "Perceptual Interfaces"
(which has a lot in common with multimodal interfaces, natural interfaces, intelligent
interfaces, etc.).
France
Winddance Twine
Associate Professor, Sociology
wind_dance@earthlink.net
As an African American and American Indian (Creek nation),
France Winddance Twine grew up in working class family in Chicago. "My
grandfather was a prominent civil-rights activist, which shaped my commitment
to social justice," she says.
A feminist ethnographer, Twine's research on comparative racial studies in three
countries involves "field research that has taken me to Brazil and the
United Kingdom, where I have lived for many years in the communities about which
I write," she says. Much of her research is also conducted in the U.S.
Her 1997 book, "Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White
Supremacy in Brazil," detailed how national ideologies shape the way black
Brazilians conceptualize and respond to racial disparities in a community in
Rio de Janeiro. Currently, Twine is working on a book-length study that has
moved her to research the intersections of race, sexuality, and nationality
in Britain and the U.S.
Cristina
Venegas
Assistant
Professor of Film and Media Studies
venegas@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Cristina Venegas is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of
California Santa Barbara where she teaches film and media studies with a focus
on Latin American, U.S. Latino media and digital technologies. Her essays have
appeared in Film Quarterly, Spectator and in Communicare. She is currently completing
a book manuscript titled Digital Dilemma: New Media Relations in Contemporary
Cuba.
Janet
Walker
Professor
of Film and Media Studies, Chair of Film and Media Studies
jwalker@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
1987 Ph.D., UCLA Film and TV Study
Janet Walker specializes in the application of contemporary psychological theories
of trauma and memory to the study of filmic representation. Her areas of research
interest are women and film, documentary film, video and web-based communication,
historiography, film history, and trauma theory. She is the author of Couching
Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry from World War II through
the mid-1960's, co-editor with Diane Waldman of Feminism and Documentary,
and editor of Westerns Through History as well as a second edited volume
entitled: Westerns: Films Through History. She is currently working
on a monograph entitled Trauma Cinema: Disremembering Incest and the Holocaust.
William
Warner
Professor
of English
warner@english.ucsb.edu
Ph.D. 1977 Johns Hopkins University
Education: B.A., Chinese Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1968. M.A.,
Ph.D, English Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 1977. William Warner is
Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he
has taught since 1997. Professor Warner is Director of the Digital Cultures
Multi-Campus Research Group, which brings together faculty and graduate students
from across the UC system who are actively engaged with the history and theory
of new digital technologies and the ways in which they impact humanistic studies
and the arts. His central interests include Eighteenth century British and American
literature and cultural studies, the novel, literary and cultural theory, media
studies, and law and literature (free speech and censorship). He is the author
of Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation (1979); Chance
and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche and Shakespeare's Hamlet (1986); and Licensing Entertainment: the Elevation of Novel Reading in Eighteenth
Century Britain (1998).
Charles
Wolfe
Professor
of Film and Media Studies
wolfe@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
1978 Ph.D. Columbia University
Professor Wolfe's areas of research and teaching interest include international
film history and criticism; American film and cultural history; historiography;
documentary film, photography and new media; comedy; film sound; and adaptation.
He is the author of two books on the films of director Frank Capra and has published
widely on various aspects of the history of commercial, independent, and documentary
filmmaking in the U.S. A former Rockefeller Fellow, he also has served as a
consulting scholar for the New York Center for Visual History's American Cinema
Project and as a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the American Film
Institute. Together with colleague Edward Branigan, he is series co-editor of
the American Film Institute's Film Reader Series, which to date has
published fourteen volumes of new critical essays on topics of contemporary
concern in film, television, and new media studies. He is a past recipient of
a UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award and a past chair of the Department of Film
Studies.
Mayfair
Yang
Professor
of Anthropolgy
yangm@religion.ucsb.edu
Prof. Yang is interested in issues of modernity, such as the break with traditional
orders and the collective anxieties, ordeals, and insanities of modernity. Yang's
cultural and geographical region of specialization is China and it's offshoot
cultures and diaspora in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and the West. She
also works on the Anthropology of the State: the proliferation of the cultural
logic of the state in modernity, state organizational structures, state and
transnational economies, ancient state forms, and everyday forms of civil society
and counter-state movements. She has analyzed the historical significance of
guanxi practices or the gift economy in the context of state socialist society
in China. Her book on gift and state economies in China won the American Ethnological
Society First Book Prize in 1997. With a five-year National Science Foundation
research grant, she conducted fieldwork in rural southeast China on the revival
of popular religion and lineages as forms of indigenous civil society in rural
Wenzhou. A Chiang Ching-kuo research grant enabled comparative fieldwork on
popular religion in Taiwan. Another research interest is the development of
mass media and popular culture (print, film, television, videotape, VCD, telephone,
Internet, etc.), their social impact especially in non-Western contexts, and
the construction of new transnational forms of subjectivity through transnational
movements of media. A recent research paper analyzes the relationship between
satellite television, nation-state territoriality, and the Mazu goddess pilgrimage
from Taiwan across the Straits to Meizhou Island, Fujian Province. Yang's interest
in media is not merely from the point of view of textual analyses of media,
but also in the production end of media. She has made two ethnographic/documentary
videos, one on the revival of popular religion in rural China, the other on
urban women in China which was presented at the Creteil Women's International
Film Festival in Paris, France. She has also published and taught on issues
of gender and feminism, such as the gendered domestic and public spheres, state
feminism, consumer sexuality, state masculinity, and the question of transnational
feminist movements.