Media Studies Faculty

 Contact InfoDepartment(s)Academic/ Research Interests
Michael Ashkin

Michael Ashkin

www.michaelashkin.com

ma352@cornell.edu

ArtInstallation art; Interdisciplinary art; Landscape architecture; Painting; Photography; Sculpture; Visual representation
Andrea Bachner

Andrea Bachner

asb76@cornell.edu

Comparative LiteratureCatalan; Chinese; Comparative Media Studies; Comparative and World Literature; Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality; French; German; Italian; Literary Theory and Translation Studies; Portuguese; Spanish; Transregional and Postcolonial Studies
Christine Bacareza Balance

Christine Bacareza Balance

cbalance@cornell.edu

Performing and Media Arts; Asian American Studies Program; Asian Studies; Music 
Anindita Banerjee

Anindita Banerjee

ab425@cornell.edu

Comparative Literature; Environment & Sustainability Program; History of Art and Visual Studies; Literatures in English; Romance StudiesBengali; Comparative Media Studies; Comparative and World Literature; Hindi; Literature, Science, and the Environment; Russian; Sanskrit; Transregional and Postcolonial Studies; Science, Technology, and Culture; Energy and the Environment; Media Studies; Migration Studies
Erik Born

Erik Born

erikborn.com

erikborn@cornell.edu

German Studies; Institute for German Cultural Studies; Medieval Studies Program; Performing and Media ArtsGerman Language, Literature, and Culture (esp. Pre-1800 and Modernism ca. 1900); Media History and Theory (esp. Critical Theory and Media Philosophy); German Cinema (esp. Silent Film) and Television; Speculative Fiction (esp. Science Fiction); Popular Mediums (esp. Comics and Games)
Jeremy Braddock

Jeremy Braddock

jeremybraddock.com

braddock@cornell.edu

Literatures in English; American Studies Program; Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity20th and 21st Century American; African American; Cultural Studies; Media Studies; Modernist Literature and Culture; Media studies; History of Material Texts; African American literature; Libraries, archives, and information
Andrew Campana

Andrew Campana

ac2794@cornell.edu

Asian Studies; Society for the HumanitiesModern and contemporary Japanese literature; Japanese media; Disability studies; Poetry and poetics; Digital media; Game studies; Feminism, gender and sexuality
Timothy Campbell

Timothy Campbell

tcc9@cornell.edu

Romance Studies (Professor of Italian); Comparative LiteratureItalian; Contemporary Italian Thought; Global Health and its Institutions; The Biopolitics of Covid
Chris Csíkszentmihályi

Chris Csíkszentmihályi

www.edgyproduct.org

cpc83@cornell.edu

Information ScienceCritical Data Studies; Human-Computer Interaction; Technology and Equity
Iftikhar Dadi

Iftikhar Dadi

www.dadiart.net

mid1@cornell.edu

History of Art and Visual Studies; Institute for Comparative Modernitiesmodern and contemporary art from a global and transnational perspective, with emphasis on questions of methodology and intellectual history; the film, media, and popular cultures of South Asia, seeking to understand how emergent publics forge new avenues for civic participation
Naminata Diabate

Naminata Diabate

nd326@cornell.edu

Comparative Literature; Africana Studies and Research Center; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; French Studies Program; Institute for Comparative Modernities; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program; Literatures in English; Performing and Media ArtsFrench; Latin; Malinke; Spanish; Contemporary Narrative and Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Race and Black Studies; Film and Visual Art; Social Media Research
Brooke Duffy

Brooke Duffy

bduffy@cornell.edu

Communication; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies ProgramSocial Media and Society; Media and Cultural Production; Gender, Identity, and Inequality; Platforms and Algorithms; Digital Labor
Kevin Ernste

Kevin Ernste

digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste

kevinernste@cornell.edu

MusicComposition; Sound and Media; Composition: electroacoustic music; Improvisation; Field recording; Studio and remote recording; Mixing and mastering; Spatialized and immersive sound; Microphone array design
Ziad Fahmy

Ziad Fahmy

zfahmy@cornell.edu

Near Eastern Studies; Africana Studies and Research Center; HistoryNationalism and state formation in the nineteenth and twentieth century Middle East; Trans-nationalism and the fluidity of identity in the nineteenth century Mediterranean World; Historical sounds and soundscapes; Media Studies and the history of early radio
Maria Fernandez

Maria Fernandez

mf252@cornell.edu

History of Art and Visual Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies ProgramCybernetics; Feminist media arts; Posthumanism; New materialism; BioArt; AI in art; Aesthetics of interaction and responsiveness
Chelsea Mikael Frazier

Chelsea Mikael Frazier

www.chelseafrazier.com

chelsea.frazier@cornell.edu

Literatures in English; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies ProgramAfrican American; Gender and Sexuality
Arnika Fuhrmann

Arnika Fuhrmann

www.arnikafuhrmann.com

aif32@cornell.edu

Asian Studies; Comparative Literature; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program; Religious Studies ProgramSoutheast Asia, the intersections of the region’s aesthetic and political modernities
Andrew Galloway

Andrew Galloway

andrewgalloway@cornell.edu

Literatures in English; Comparative Literature; Medieval Studies ProgramMedia Studies; Medieval; Medieval English poetry and its contexts (especially 13th through 15th centuries); Medieval Latin literature; Audiences and contexts for medieval poetry; Textual criticism and the literary and cultural contexts of books; Medieval historical writing; Multilingualism in medieval literature and culture; 19th century American literature
Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni

sh322@cornell.edu

Performing and Media Arts; American Studies Program; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies ProgramAmerican cinema and cultural studies; intersections of gender and ethnicity in U.S. popular and mass culture
Lee Humphreys

Lee Humphreys

blogs.cornell.edu/humphreys

lmh13@cornell.edu

Communicationsocial uses and perceived effects of communication technology; mobile phone use in public spaces, emerging norms on mobile social networks, and the privacy and surveillance implications of location-based services
Steven J. Jackson

Steven J. Jackson

sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu

sjj54@cornell.edu

Information Science; Science & Technology StudiesCritical Data Studies; Ethics, Law and Policy; Human-Computer Interaction; Infrastructure Studies; Social Computing and Computer-supported Cooperative Work; Technology and Equity
Rayna Kalas

Rayna Kalas

rmk45@cornell.edu

Literatures in EnglishEarly Modern; Media Studies; 16th- and 17th-century literature; poetics; history and theory of writing; visual studies; literature and technology; media studies/print culture; literature and public affairs
Patricia Keller

Patricia Keller

pkeller@cornell.edu

Romance Studies; Comparative LiteratureSpanish; 19th – 21st Century Visual Culture; Intersections of Film, Photography & Literature; Modern & Contemporary Spain; Fascism; Literary Theory; Critical Theory; Landscape Theory; Galician Studies; Experimental Cinema; Photography as Text
Athena Kirk

Athena Kirk

aekirk@cornell.edu

ClassicsGreek Literature; Greek Cultural Poetics; Ancient Literacy and Orality; Ancient Animal Studies
Medina Lasansky

Medina Lasansky

dml34@cornell.edu

ArchitectureArchitectural history; Architectural theory
Karen Levy

Karen Levy

karen.levy@cornell.edu

Information Science; Law SchoolCritical Data Studies; Ethics, Law and Policy; Technology and Equity
Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

www.farzinfarzin.com

lotfijam@cornell.edu

ArchitectureCities; Digital media; Film/video/sound; Technology and art; Urbanism; Simulation; Exhibition Practice
Shaoling Ma

Shaoling Ma

sm2863@cornell.edu

Asian Studieslate nineteenth-century to contemporary Chinese and Southeast Asian cultural productions, media studies, and critical theory
Patrizia McBride

Patrizia McBride

patrizia.mcbride@cornell.edu

German Studies; Institute for German Cultural Studies18th to 20th-century literature and culture; Modernism and theories of modernity; The intersection of literary theory, philosophy, and political theory; Visual and media studies; Austrian literature and culture, especially fin-de-siècle Vienna
Jon McKenzie

Jon McKenzie

www.labster8.net

jvm62@cornell.edu

Literatures in English20th and 21st Century American; Cultural Studies; Media Studies
David Mimno

David Mimno

mimno.infosci.cornell.edu

mimno@cornell.edu

Information ScienceComputational Social Science; Natural Language Processing
Jennifer Minner

Jennifer Minner

j.minner@cornell.edu

City & Regional PlanningAdaptive reuse; Circular economies; Cities;Community-based planning and development; Historic preservation planning; Land use/spatial planning; Participatory and collaborative planning; Planning history; Social justice and equity; Sustainability; Urbanism
Wunpini Mohammed

Wunpini Mohammed

www.wunpini.com

wunpini@cornell.edu

Communicationfeminisms, decolonization, and social movements; interrogating power in media and communications while working together with disenfranchised communities to use media to bring about transformative change in communities; the importance of indigenous epistemologies in dismantling oppressive systems
Andrew Moisey

Andrew Moisey

am2798@cornell.edu

History of Art and Visual Studies; American Studies Program; Milstein Program in Technology & HumanityHistory and theory of photography; moving image media; photographic practice; digital media; modern image culture; affect theory; philosophy of mind, value, and aesthetics
Roger Moseley

Roger Moseley

rsm253@cornell.edu

Music; Center for Historical KeyboardsMusic and Sound Studies; Performance
Tim Murray

Tim Murray

tcm1@cornell.edu

Comparative Literature; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies; Literatures in EnglishChinese; French; Japanese; Latin; Digital Art, Film, and Video; Theatre and performance; Psychoanalysis; Aesthetics; Cultural studies; Lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies; Digital Arts and Humanities; Film and Video, Theory and History; Continental Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; Visual Studies; Performance; French Studies; Early Modern Studies
Keith Obadike

Keith Obadike

obadike.com

kao83@cornell.edu

ArtCollaborative practice; Digital media; Film/video/sound; Installation art; Interdisciplinary art; Performance art; Public art; Technology and art; Sound art; Video Art; Performance; Public Art
Mendi Obadike

Mendi Obadike

mlo72@cornell.edu

Performing and Media Arts; American Studies Program; Literatures in EnglishTheir current projects include RingShout, a musical satellite, and DreamTrain, a new video and music work commissioned by American Composers Orchestra.
Jeffrey Palmer

Jeffrey Palmer

jpp237@cornell.edu

Performing and Media ArtsHe is currently working on the feature narrative script for the film Ghosts.
Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

marianthi.net

mp955@cornell.edu

Music; Milstein Program in Technology & Humanitycomposition; sound art
Judith A. Peraino

Judith A. Peraino

jap28@cornell.edu

Music; American Studies Program; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program; Medieval Studies ProgramLGBT and Queer Theory; Music and Sound Studies; Rock, Punk and Synthpop; Sound and Media; constructions of gender and sexuality in music; punk rock, synth pop; medieval song
Benjamin Piekut

Benjamin Piekut

piekut@cornell.edu

Music; American Studies ProgramMusic and Sound Studies
Verity Platt

Verity Platt

vjp33@cornell.edu

Classics; Archaeology Program; Environment & Sustainability Program; History of Art and Visual Studies; Religious Studies ProgramClassical Archaeology; Classical Art; Greek Literature; Latin Literature
Natasha Raheja

Natasha Raheja

nraheja@cornell.edu

Anthropology; Performing and Media ArtsEthnography; Political and Legal Anthropology; Visual Anthropology
Courtney Roby

Courtney Roby

croby@cornell.edu

Classics; Medieval Studies Program; Science and Technology StudiesLatin Literature; ancient Greek and Roman science and technology; models in ancient scientific thinking; cognitive science approaches to ancient scientific work; book history / bibliography and the study of ancient scientific texts
Jenny Sabin

Jenny Sabin

jsabin@cornell.edu

Design Tech; ArchitectureArchitectural design; Architectural installations; Architectural practice; Architectural technology; Collaborative practice; Ecological practice; Sustainability
Nick Salvato

Nick Salvato

ngs9@cornell.edu

Performing and Media Arts; American Studies Program; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program; Literatures in English20th century aesthetics and culture; modern drama; theatre and performance; queer theory; popular representations of gender and sexuality; histories and theories of melodrama
Katherine Sender

Katherine Sender

ks785@cornell.edu

Communication; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies ProgramHer current research project focuses on sexual mobilities across a range of media and locations.
Phoebe Sengers

Phoebe Sengers

sengers.infosci.cornell.edu

sengers@cornell.edu

Information Science; Science and Technology Studies; Computer Science; ArtCritical Data Studies; Human-Computer Interaction; Infrastructure Studies; Social Computing and Computer-supported Cooperative Work; Technology and Equity
Anna Shechtman

Anna Shechtman

www.annashechtman.com

as2963@cornell.edu

Literatures in English20th and 21st Century American; 20th and 21st Century British; Cultural Studies; Literary Theory; Media Studies; Film Theory; 20th and 21st Century African American Literature
Samantha Sheppard

Samantha Sheppard

samanthansheppard.com

sheppard@cornell.edu

Performing and Media Arts; Africana Studies and Research Center; American Studies Program; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies ProgramBlack cultural production and production cultures, African American representation in cinema, television studies, sports films, feminist media studies, embodiment studies, and critical race theory
Derrick Spires

Derrick Spires

drs385@cornell.edu

Literatures in English; Africana Studies and Research Center; American Studies ProgramAfrican American; Cultural Studies; Media Studies; Pre-20th Century American; African American Literature and Culture; Black Print Culture; African American Intellectual History; Black Speculative Fiction; Critical Race Studies; Politics and Aesthetics
Deborah Starr

Deborah Starr

deborah.starr@cornell.edu

Near Eastern Studies; Comparative Literature; Jewish Studies Program; Performing and Media ArtsModern Arabic and Hebrew literature; Middle Eastern Cinema; Contemporary Egyptian Culture; Mizrahi Literature and Culture; Minority Communities of the Middle East; Cosmopolitanism; Cinema and Media Studies; Urban Studies
Daniel Susser

Daniel Susser

www.danielsusser.info

susser@cornell.edu

Information ScienceCritical Data Studies; Ethics, Law and Policy; Technology and Equity
Lindsay Thomas

Lindsay Thomas

lindsaythomas.net

lthomas@cornell.edu

Literatures in English; American Studies Program20th and 21st Century American; Cultural Studies; Media Studies; Contemporary literature and culture; Data collection and curation in the humanities; Computational text analysis; Digital media; Sociology of literature
Dan Torop

Dan Torop

dantorop.info

dtorop@cornell.edu

ArtCollaborative practice; Digital media; Film/video/sound; Interdisciplinary art; Photography; Public art; Technology and art; Digital image processing; Code; 3D animation; Printing
Irina Troconis

Irina Troconis

irt23@cornell.edu

Romance Studies; Society for the HumanitiesSpanish; Venezuelan Studies; Politics and Performance; Critical Theory; Affect Theory; Memory Studies; Material Culture; Digital Humanities
Parisa Vaziri

Parisa Vaziri

pv248@cornell.edu

Comparative Literature; Near Eastern Studies; Performing and Media Arts; Society for the Humanitiescritiques of history, the subject, and the concept of the human as articulated primarily by Black critical thought, poststructuralist theory, and film and media studies
Gili Vidan

Gili Vidan

gv232@cornell.edu

Information Science; Science and Technology Studiesauthentication and the politics of cryptography, the specter of the digital fake, and AI and emerging technology regulation
Yu Wang

Yu Wang

yw2757@cornell.edu

Science and Technology Studiestechniques of listening and its interaction with society and politics
Kristen Warner

Kristen Warner

kjw247@cornell.edu

Performing and Media Arts; American Studies Programimpact of racial representation at the levels of industrial practices such as casting as well as the implications of employment for creative professionals both in front and behind the camera
Wenfei Xu

Wenfei Xu

www.wenfeixu.com

wenfeixu@cornell.edu

City & Regional PlanningHousing; Planning history; Mapping; Neighborhood change; Segregation; Urban data science
Malte Ziewitz

Malte Ziewitz

zwtz.org

mcz35@cornell.edu

Science and Technology Studies; Milstein Program in Technology & HumanityScience & technology studies (STS); sociology of (e)valuation; mundane governance; digital media; audit cultures; ethnography; ethnomethodology
Sasa Zivkovic

Sasa Zivkovic

sz382@cornell.edu

ArchitectureArchitectural design; Architectural installations; Architectural practice; Architectural technology; Ecological practice; Incremental design; Material practice; Sustainability
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