David Joshua Benin - Saint Mary's College of California
Vitae David Joshua Benin Vitae
69 Brosnan St., San Francisco, CA 94103 ~ ph 415.609.2162 ~
EDUCATION
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. Program, C. Phil., ABD, in Communication
Thesis: Silvan Tomkins and Visual Culture: A Genealogy of Facial Affect Technologies (tentative title)
Advisor: Lisa Cartwright
New York University, New York, NY
Master of Arts in Cinema Studies (2000)
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education (Social Sciences) (1999)
Cum laude
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
David Benin and Lisa Cartwright, 2006 “Shame, Empathy, and Looking Practices: Lessons from a Disability Studies Classroom” in journal of visual culture Vol. 5(2) Fall 2006 (London: SAGE Publications).
‘The Ball don’t lie’: Neoliberal technologies of citizenship in the sport film. Presented at the Teachers and Media Conference, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, 2015
Grizzly Ontologies: On Affect, Intersubjectivity, and Animal Politics. Presented at
the Cultural Studies Association Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 29, 2014
Animal Sex and Narrative: Different Stories. Presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Chicago., March, 2014.
Play in the City: Playground design and urban subjectivity. Presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Washington, D.C., March 28, 2013.
Affect, Architecture, Suicide. Presented at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 27, 2012.
Aural Identities: The Performativity of Sound in Experimental Queer Cinema. Presented at The International Communication Association Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, May 27, 2012.
Power Down: Consumption, Sustainability and Environmental New Media. Presented at The International Communication Association Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, May 24, 2012.
Face/Off: Facade and the Question of Representing Affect. Presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA April 2012.
Green Screens: Environmental Film and Critical Pedagogy. Presented at Staging Sustainability Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada April 21, 2011
Suicidal Tendencies: Moral Spectatorship and The Bridge
Presented at The National Communication Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 14, 2010
On Quarterbacks, Canines, and the Compulsory Performance of Affect.
Presented at Performance Studies International (PSi 16), Toronto, Canada, June 11, 2010
Disabling the Face: Tourette Syndrome and the Spectrum of Embodied Affective Expression.
Presented at Society of Disability Studies Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, June 5, 2010
Code Unknown: Facial Affect Coding and the Elision of the Affective Body
Presented at “Feeling Photography: Toronto Photography Seminar”, University of Toronto, October, 2009.
New bodies, new media: an experiment in biotechnology and digital culture
Presented at the “Birth/Day” Conference at the Department of Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, March 7, 2009.
Embodiment, Virtuality, and IF
Presented at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference, University of Washington, May 30, 2008.
The scene of the eye
Presented at “The Educated Eye: Photography and Evidence Workshop” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, February 2008.
The gendered performativity of sound: Derek Jarman’s Blue
Presented at the Thinking Gender Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, February 2, 2007.
Film, television, literature, and other placebos
Presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and Art. New York, NY, November 9-12, 2006.
Nervous Convergence
Presented at the annual conference of the Society for Disability Studies, SFSU, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Bodily Perception: experimental cinema and the condition of virtual ability
Presented at the G/Q/ Q/G conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring, 2005
MEDIA PRODUCTION WORK (AUTHORED)
Hors Catégorie: an experiment in embodied, affective interactive fiction
(with Chris Calabro, 2007, interactive fiction)
A work of interactive fiction, set along the Tour de France bicycling race, Hors Catégorie experiments with bodies, bio-technologies, ethics, affect, virtuality, and what it all has to do with new media ‘writing.’ It can be accessed at:
Family Values; or, scattered speculations of the topic of resistance
(2005, Digital Video, 8”)
Drawing inspiration from comic books, Foucault, and phenomenology, this work
critically examines the (troubled) relationship between liberal democratic notions
of resistance and the truth-making practices of mainstream documentary practice.
Deer Hunter
(2000, 16mm, 2:15)
Examines the curious relationships between people, animals, and large firearms.
TEACHING
COMM 133: Video Production (Fall, 2014)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 109: Visual Communication (Fall, 2014)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 125: Culture Media and Technology (Fall, 2014)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 2: Communication and Social Understanding (Spring, 2014)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 133: Video Production (Fall, 2013)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 10: Argument and Advocacy (Fall, 2013)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 163: Communication and the Environment (Spring, 2013)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 3: Communication Inquiry (Spring, 2013)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 133: Digital Video Production (Spring, 2013)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 2: Communication and Social Understanding (Fall, 2012)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 133: Digital Video Production (Fall, 2012)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 2: Communication and Social Understanding (Fall, 2011)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
COMM 133: Digital Video Production (Fall, 2011)
Communication Department
Saint Mary's College of California
Communicating Sustainability: Digital Media Production (Summer, 2011)
Office of Sustainability Research
Princeton University
COCU 148: Communication and the Environment (Summer II, 2010)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
Communicating Sustainability: Digital Media Production (Summer, 2010)
Office of Sustainability Research
Princeton University
COCU 100: Introduction to Communication and Culture (Summer II, 2009)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
Communicating Sustainability: Digital Media Production (Summer, 2009)
Office of Sustainability Research
Princeton University
COCU 125: How to Read a Film (Summer II, 2008)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
Communicating Sustainability: Digital Media Production (Summer, 2008)
Office of Sustainability Research
Princeton University
COMS 120: Social Issue Media Production: Climate Change (Summer, 2007)
Communication Department
Sonoma State University
COMT 120: Documentary Film Production (Fall, 2005)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
ENG 112: Composition (Summer, 2004; Summer, 2005)
Department of General Studies
DeVry University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
COLL149/152: Critical Thinking (Summer, 2005)
Department of General Studies
DeVry University, Fort Washington, PA
ENG 139: Advanced Composition and Research (Summer, 2004)
Department of General Studies
DeVry University, Philadelphia, PA
COLL139: Critical Thinking (Spring, 2003; Summer 2004)
Department of General Studies
DeVry University, Fort Washington, PA
ENG 139: Advanced Composition and Research (Spring, 2003)
Department of General Studies
DeVry University, Fort Washington, PA
ENG 099: Developmental English (Fall, 2002; Spring 2003)
Department of General Studies
DeVry University, Fort Washington, PA
ENG 110: Composition (Fall, 2002; Spring 2003)
Department of General Studies
DeVry University, Fort Washington, PA
TEACHING ASSISTANT & READERSHIP WORK
COCU 124: Documentary Theory and History (Winter 2010)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COCU 108: Visual Culture (Winter 2008)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COSF 100: Communication as a Social Force (Fall, 2004, 2006)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COSF 175: Culture Wars: Creationism vs. Evolutionism (Spring, 2006)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COGN 21: Media Practice: Digital Media Production (2005/2006 (4 quarters))
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COCU 150: Gender and Media (Fall 2006)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COCU 139: Cultural Politics of Sport (Fall 2005)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COHI 100: Communication and the Individual (Spring 2005)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
COCU 135: Television, Culture, and the Public (Winter 2004)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
RESEARCH WORK
Research Assistant to Professor David Serlin (Academic Year 2006)
Project: The Cultural Logic of Architecture
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
Research Assistant to Professor Lisa Cartwright (Fall 2004)
Project: Visual Culture, Disability, and Technology
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
AWARDS and HONORS
Dissertation Fellowship (2010)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
Teaching Assistant Excellence Award (2006)
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
Adjunct Professor of the Year Award (2002-2003)
DeVry University Fort Washington, PA
Full Tuition Scholarship (1999-2000)
New York University, New York, NY
Presidential Scholar (1998)
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
OTHER MEDIA WORK
cineBlast! Productions (1999-2000)
New York, New York
Director of Development – oversaw development wing and participated in production work (assistant camera, second camera, key grip, production coordinator) for Sundance Award-winning independent production company. (Individual production credits are available upon request).
The Hub Youth Media Arts Center (2000-2001)
Bristol, Vermont
Director of Development – coordinated curriculum and activities, including fund-raising, and taught digital video production at non –profit teen center for “at-risk” youth.
Methodist Services for Children (2001-2002)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Director of Curriculum – designed curriculum for multi-sited, after-school art education programs for “at-risk” youth.
Freelance Individual Media Production Credits available upon request.
REFERENCES
Lisa Cartwright
Professor
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, 0503
La Jolla, CA 92093-0503
Ph. 858-532-2695
e-mail lisacucsd.edu
Shana Weber
Director
Office of Sustainability Research
Princeton University
Ph. 609-647-0056
e-mail shanawprinceton.edu
Brian Goldfarb
Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, 0503
La Jolla, CA 92093-0503
Ph. 858-822-2239
e-mail bgoldfarbucsd.edu
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