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Elizabeth Ellsworth
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Communication Arts/ Film Studies
MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Communication
Professor

Profile:
Professor, Media Studies Program and the Graduate Certificate in Documentary Media Studies. Research and teaching areas include media theory and criticism, history and criticism of documentary film, media and social change, design of mediated learning environments, uses of media to teach about and across social and cultural difference. Formerly Professor of Educational Communications Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she also has taught as Visiting Professor in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Programs at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has published extensively, producing five books including Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy (Routledge,2004). Her current work draws from emerging theories of pragmatic action and change to address how humans use media to do things in the world. As a co-founder of a nonprofit media arts collaboration (www.smudgestudio.org) she is translating the results of her research and writing into a variety of media forms, exhibitions, and projects, including www.ExtremeMediaStudies.org
Courses Taught:
  • Documentary as Social Practice
  • Extreme Media Studies
  • Emerging Media & Documentary Studies
  • Between Media & Architecture
  • Integrated Media Theory & Design
  • Media Space/Public Space
  • Mediated Learning Environments
  • Research Methods/Media Studies
Recent Publications:
  • “Spatial Theories of Education:  Policy and Geography Matters,” Book Review, Teachers College Record, June, 2008.
  • Becoming HumanÊ Artist:  Moving in Accord with the Change that Makes the World,” with Kruse, J., submitted to Performance Paradigm #4, 2008.
  • “Limit Cases,” with Kruse, J., Polar Inertia Journal, Issue #29, August, 2007:  http://www.polarinertia.com/aug07/limit01.htm
  • “What might become thinkable and do-able if we stop treating curriculum/teaching theory and practice as separate domains of academic research?” Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2007.
Office Location:

2 W. 13th Street, Room 1205A

Phone Number/Extension:
212.229.8903

Email:
EllsworE@newschool.edu

Personal Website:
http://www.ElizabethEllsworth.com

Research Interests:
  • Emerging theories of change and pragmatic action
  • Design of innovative media-based learning environments
  • Emerging documentary practices
Professional Affiliations:
  • American Studies Association
  • American Educational Research Association
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Awards and Honors:
  • Provost's Faculty Development Grant (with Shannon Mattern), in support of Project Media Space][Public Space, a cross-divisional, interdisciplinary curriculum project.
  • Provost's Faculty Development,submitted with Kit Laybourne, in support for an innovative online learning environment:  www.ExtremeMediaStudies.org.
  • Named the John and Rosa Sachs Distinguished Lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University.
  • Invited Keynote Speaker, Prairie Learning Center Teacher's Institute, Val Marie, SK (Canada), October.
  • Invited lecturer in residence, Educational Leadership Academy, Massachusetts College for the Liberal Arts,
  • Invited Noted Scholar, Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July.
CV (pdf):
CV_Ellsworth

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