Professor of Comparative Literature and English; Director of the  Society for the Humanities; Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell Library.
 
Books: Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds; Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, and Art; Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas; Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century France and England; Contact  Zones: The Art of CD-Rom, see web catalogue ; Ed., Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought; Ed. with Alan K. Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early Modern Culture. In preparation: Baroque Intensities: Electronic Art, Baroque Traces, Cultural Memories; Digitality and the Memory of Cinema. Co-curator, CTHEORY Multimedia. Managing Co-Moderator, empyre- a soft-skinned space new media listserv(http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/) .
 
Research areas: visual studies; digital culture; film, video, electronic art; performance; philosophy and aesthetics; psychoanalysis; French Studies; seventeenth-century studies.

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