Martin Roberts: Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
Email: dokoissho@pm.me
Twitter: mroberts333
GitHub: mroberts1
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Research & Teaching Interests
Global Media and Cultural Studies
Subcultural Communities and Identites
World Cinema
Documentary Film
Popular Music Studies
Videogame Cultures
Platformless Media
Cryptoculture
Education
1981-1989 Trinity College, Cambridge (U.K)
Ph. D. in French Studies (1989)
1977-1981 University of Birmingham (U.K.)
Bachelor of Arts in French (First Class Honours)
Minor: Spanish
Professional Experience
2019-2020 Jeonbuk National University (Jeonju, South Korea)
Visiting Professor Writing Center for Graduate Studies
2016-2019 Dartmouth College (Hanover, U.S.)
Visiting Lecturer
Department of Film & Media Studies
2016-2019 Emerson College (Boston, U.S.)
Affiliated Faculty
Department of Visual & Media Arts
2013-2015 University of Derby (U.K.)
Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies
School of Humanities
2012-2013 Hallym University (South Korea)
Visiting Professor
School of Communication
2012 Yonsei University (South Korea)
Visiting Lecturer
East Asia International College
1997-2011 The New School (New York, U.S.)
2006-2011 B.A. Program in Liberal Arts / Eugene Lang College
Assistant Professor of Media Studies
2002-2006 B.A. Program in Liberal Arts
Core Faculty
1997-2000 M.A. Program in Media Studies
Acting Online Program Coordinator
Acting Director of Graduate Studies / Faculty Member
2000-2010 New York University (New York, U.S.)
Adjuct Faculty
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
1992-1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of French Studies
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Film & Media Studies Program
1991-1992 Wesleyan University (Middletown, U.S.)
Assistant Professor of French
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
1998-1991 Harvard University (Cambridge, U.S.)
Lecturer in History and Literature
Concentration in History & Literature
Books
Cornelius’s ‘Fantasma.’ New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 33 1/3 series.
Michel Tournier: Bricolage and Cultural Mythology. Stanford: Stanford French & Italian Studies, 1995.
Book Chapters
“Baraka: World Cinema and the Global Culture Industry.” In Denilson Lopes and Andrea França, eds., Cinema, Globalizacão e Interculturalidade [Cinema, Globalization, and Interculturality] (Chapecó, Brazil: Argos Editora Universitária, 2010).
“The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not To Wear.” In Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker, eds., Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2007).
“Notes on the Global Underground: Subcultures and Globalization.” In Ken Gelder, ed., The Subcultures Reader, second edition (New York: Routledge, 2005).
“Film Culture.” In Adam Muller, ed., Concepts of Culture: Art, Politics, and Society (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005).
“Decoding D-Day: Multi-Channel Television at the Millennium.” In Mette Hjort and Scott Mackenzie, eds., Purity and Provocation: Dogma ’95 (London: BFI, 2003).
“Indonesia: The Movie.” In Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie, eds., Cinema and Nation (New York: Routledge, 2000).
“Transnational Geographic: Perspectives on Baraka.” In Isabel Santaolalla, ed., New Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000).
“World Music: The Relocation of Culture.” World Culture Report 1998: Culture, Creativity and Markets (Paris: UNESCO, 1998).
Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
“‘A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular’: Shibuya-kei as Transnational Soundscape.” Popular Music 32, no. 1 (January 2013) 111-123.
Baraka: World Cinema and the Global Culture Industry.” Cinema Journal 37, no. 3 (Spring, 1998), 62-82.
“The Self in the Other: Ethnographic Film, Surrealism, Politics.” Visual Anthropology 8(1) (1996): 79-94.
“World Music and the Global Cultural Economy.” Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Studies 2(2) (1992): 229-242.
“Mutations of the Spectacle: Vitrines, Arcades, Mannequins.” French Cultural Studies (October 1991), 211-49.
Magazines & Newsletters
“Indonesia’s Gamelan: Not Just World Music.” UNESCO Sources 103 (July-August 1998).
Web/Internet
“‘I’m Riding a Panda!’ Japanese Cult Media and Hipster Cosmopolitanism.” Flow 9, no. 10 (April 2009). Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin.
“This Was England: British Television And/As Cultural Heritage.” Flow 9, no. 5 (January 2009). Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin.
“Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn.” Flow 9, no. 1 (October 2008). Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin.
“Keyword: Cosmopolitanism.” Critical World: Thinking Globalization Through Music website 2008, Université de Montréal.
Keynotes & Invited Lectures
Panel discussant, screening of the documentary film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. Envisioning the World screening series, Closeup Film Theatre, London, 2019.
“Reboot, Reset, React: Television in the Age of Social Media.” Hallym University, Media School. Chuncheon, South Korea, 18 June 2018.
“‘A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular’: Shibuya-kei as Transnational Soundscape,” 2013. Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS, University of London, 13 November 2013.
“Transnational Documentary: Creative Labour and Cultural Politics.” Hallym University, School of Communication. Chuncheon, South Korea, 20 October 2012.
“Cinema and/as Development.” Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Master’s Program, Yonsei University. Wonju, South Korea, 21 November 2012.
“Subcultural Studies and the Future of Nostalgia.” Panelist (with Tony Jefferson), panel on the re-publication of Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson’s Resistance Through Rituals, at “On the Edge: Transgression and the Dangerous Other. An Interdisciplinary Conference,” John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, 2007.
“Translation as a Martial Art: Kung Faux, from Détournement to Dubtitling.” Panelist, “Martial Arts/Global Flows” conference, Asian-Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, 2005.
Discussant (with Jiwon Ahn), Hong Kong Cinema screening series of Stephen Chao’s film Shaolin Soccer. Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, 2005.
“‘El Download es Cultura’: Electronic Music in Latin America,” Panelist, “Critical Worlds I: From Slave Music to World Music” conference, Université de Montréal, 2004.
Keynote respondent, Global Hollywood conference, University of Victoria, Canada, 2001.
“Notes on the Global Underground: Subcultural Elites, Conspicuous Cosmopolitanism.” Keynote panelist, conference on Globalization and Popular Culture, University of Manitoba, 2001.
Discussant, panel on “Portable Cultures, Global Identities,” The Public Theater, New York, on Jessica Hagedorn’s play Dogeaters, 2001.
“World Music: The Relocation of Culture.” Roundtable presenter and participant, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, “Globalization and Creativity,” Chicago, 1996.
“World Music and the Global Cultural Economy.” Panelist, “Producão Cultural: Centro/Periferia?” conference, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil, 1992.
Papers & Presentations
“Three-Dimensional Music: Cornelius’s Animated Soundworlds.” Japan. Society for Popular Music (JASPM) conference, Osaka, Japan, December 2019.
“Tropical Dandies: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Exoticism, and Bamboo Music.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Seattle, 13-17 March 2019.
“Gathering Storm: Post-Rock Scenes in Asia.” Interasiapop conference, Beijing, China, 9-10 June 2018.
“From Cookbook to Comic Book: Graphic Media, Hip Hop, and Asian-American Food Culture.” Journal of Intercultural Studies conference, “Migrating Concepts: Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism, and Conviviality Across the Asia Pacific,” Singapore, 23-25 February 2018.
”“‘Imagine’: Performance and Ritual in an Age of Global Insecurity.” Cultural Typhoon conference, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan, July 2016.
“The Other Food Network: Asian Americans and Oppositional Identity in U.S. Food Media.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Atlanta, 2 April, 2016.
“Street Food, Asian American Style: Oppositional Taste in Post-Millennial U.S. Food Culture.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, 7-9 August 2015.
“Platformers and Sequencers: Playing With MIDI.” Ludomusicology 2015 conference, University of Utrecht, 9-10 April, 2015.
“Hypermobile Subjects: Chipmusic, Resistance, and Mobility.” Ludomusicology 2014 conference, University of Chichester, 2014.
“The Rake’s Progress: Steve Coogan and Celebrity Culture.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Seattle, 2014.
‘By Pressing Down This Special Key, It Plays A Little Melody’: Videogame Subcultures and Nostalgia for the Future.” Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music (JASPM). Tokyo, Japan, 24 May 2012.
“The Shibuya Effect: Transnational Soundscapes, Transcultural Capital.” Inter-Asia Popular Music conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.
“Strangers to Ourselves? Identification and Estrangement in Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2010.
“Productivity Is Fun.” The Internet As Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor, Eugene Lang College / The New School, 2009.
“Among Strangers: Cinema Across Borders.” Keene State College, New Hampshire, Sixth Biennial Symposium, 2009.
“Another Green World: Lifestyle Television and Environmental Citizenship.” Roundtable on Electronic Waste: FlowTV Conference, Austin, Texas, 2008.
“The Baraka Effect: Cinema, Modernity, and the Metaphysical Imaginary.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Philadelphia 2008.
“Miniaturizing the World: Internationalism, Nationalism and the Japanese Character Industry.” “Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations,” Theory, Culture, & Society conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
“Cashing in on the Attic: Auctions in Contemporary Lifestyle Television.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Chicago, 2008.
“Subcultural Studies and the Future of Nostalgia.” Cultural Studies Now conference, University of East London, 2007.
“‘Cool Japan’: Globalization and the Subculture Industry.” Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads conference, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, 2006.
“24: Macrotelevision and Mobile Media.”Console-ing Passions conference, Milwaukee, 2006.
“‘Asian Cult Cinema’: Transcultural Politics and the Aesthetics of Transgression.” Kinema Club conference, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2005.
“Translation as a Martial Art: Kung Faux from Détournement to Dubtitling.” Console-ing Passions conference, New Orleans, 2004.
“The Fashion Police: Self and Governance in What Not To Wear.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Atlanta, 2003.
“‘Chappie’: Software Characters and the Digital Culture Industry.” Paper and panel co-organiser, “The Character Industry: Consuming Objects and Images in the Global Cultural Economy.” Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, 2003.
“D-Day in Denmark: Multi-Channel Television at the Millennium.” MIT3: Television. MIT, Cambridge, 2003.
“Subcultural Cinema: Knowledge, Mediation, Cultural Capital.” Society for Cinema Studies (SCS) conference, Minneapolis, 2003.
“Street Tribes: Global Mediascapes, Subcultural Strategies.” Paper and panel organizer, “Contact Zones: Transnational Spaces, Transcultural Imaginaries.” Midwest Popular Culture Association, conference, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2002.
“Variable Cinema: Portable Movies and the Pleasures of Re-Invention.” Society for Cinema Studies conference, Denver, 2002.
“D-Day in Denmark: Multi-Channel Television at the Millennium.” Society for Cinema Studies conference, Washington, D.C., 2001.
“Trance: From Ethnomusicology to Techno-Primitivism.” New Jersey Communication Association conference, Rider University, panel on Music and Media, 1999.
“Window on the World: Global Theme Parks.” MIT Media Lab, Narrative Intelligence group, 1997.
“Teaching French on the World Wide Web.” MIT, Colloquium for American Association of Teachers of French, 1997.
“News, Actualités, Nachrichten: Using Radio on the Web.” Presentation to MIT Pedagogy & Technology Workshop, 1997.
“Entangled Observers: Ethnography and the Global Cultural Economy.” MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., panel on “Ethnographies and Markets, 1996.
| “Global Mythologies: World Cinema and the Transnational Imaginary.” Conference on “Film | Culture | History,” University of Aberdeen, 1996. |
“Transnational Geographic: Perspectives on Baraka.” “New Exoticisms in Literature, Film, and Other Media,” conference at Universidad de Zaragoza, 1996.
“The Self in the Other: Ethnography and the Politics of Surrealism.” Society for Cinema Studies conference, New York, 1996.
“Democracy in Cyberspace: Society, Politics, and the Virtual Republic.” MIT Communications Forum. Panel organiser, presenter, moderator, 1994.
“ZONE: Heterotopian Space from Apollinaire to Virtual Reality.” MIT History and Literature Workshop, 1994.
“Chris Marker’s La Jetée.” MIT Media Lab, Narrative Intelligence group, 1993.
“Tournier/Faucon: On Vitrines, Mannequins, and Photographs.” MLA conference, San Francisco,1991.
“From Rousseau to Lévi-Strauss: Michel Tournier’s Noble Savages.” NEMLA conference, Wilmington, panel on colonialism, 1989.
Fellowships and Awards
2008: Fellow, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Winter Term
1994: Old Dominion Fellowship, MIT (one semester research in Paris and Dakar, Senegal)
1984-1985: French Government Scholarship (for dissertation research in Paris)
1981-1984: Major State Studentship, Department of Education and Science, UK (3-year, for dissertation research)
Courses: Undergraduate
Dartmouth College
TV Without Borders
Television & New Media
Lifestyle Media
Global Documentary & Transnational Cinema
Digital Arts & Culture
Emerson College
Soundtracks: Music and Audiovisual Media
Movements in World Cinema
History of Documentary
Studies in Digital Media & Culture
History of Media Arts II
University of Derby
Digital Gaming: Technology and Social Practice
Television Outside The Box
Media, Culture, Power: European Cultural Studies
Independent Research Project in Media Studies
East Asia International College, Yonsei University
English Writing Tutorial 2
Hallym University
Global Television
British Cultural Studies
The New School
Beatlemedia: Popular Music and Cultural Heritage
Cinemas of Liberation: Third Cinema and Beyond
Introduction to Cultural Analysis
Culture and Globalization
Theories of Modernity
Transnational Documentary and the Global Imaginary
Movements in World Cinema II
Critical Essay Writing in Film & Media Studies
Music As Communication
Introduction to Media Studies
Global Television
Worlds Fairs, Theme Parks, and the Global Imaginary
History of Broadcasting
Global Subcultures
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Monsters and The Monstrous: Figuring the Other in the Cultural Imagination
Piracy: A Brief History
Television and New Media
Senior Seminar: Lifestyle
Satellite Television: A Cultural History
Media, Globalization, and Culture
Senior Seminar: Border Cultures
New York University
Mass Media, Global Communication, and the Future
Media and Identity
Introduction to Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction to Media Studes
Global Culture
Counter-Cultures
African Cinemas
Intensive French Language & Culture
Introduction to French Culture
Introduction to French Literature
The French Short Story
The French Novel in the Twentieth Century
Everyday Life & Popular Culture in Contemporary France
Wesleyan University
French Surrealism and The Avant-Garde
Reinventing Everyday Life: French Popular Culture
Introduction to French Literature & Culture
Composition & Conversation: Intermediate French Language
Harvard University
Junior and Senior Tutorial in History and Literature
Courses: Graduate
M.A. Program in Media Studies, The New School
Global Television
Foundations of Media Theory
Interactive Media Studies
Interactive Documentary Digital Futures
Chaotic Media Systems
Professional Service
Board Membership
2008: Editorial Committee, Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Society and Culture, Zayed University, Dubai (2008-present).
2004: Advisory Board, Critical World: Thinking Globalization Through Music,website, Université de Montréal, 2008.
External Examinations
2013-2014: M.A. in Japanese Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College, London.
Peer Review (books, journals)
2013: Book proposal, K-Pop: The Art of Cultural Capital, for Ashgate Publishing.
2009: “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Patriarchy: Gender, Fashion, and Heteronormativity,” Journal of Communication Inquiry.
2009: “Transculturated Sites and the Asia Within: Notes from a Field Observation in Singapore,” Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Society and Culture.
2008: Anne McKnight and Sharon Hayashi, “Goodbye Kitty, Hello War.” Critical Worlds website.
2007: “Being Real in the Mobile Reel: A Case Study on the Rise of Convergent Mobile Media, Modes of Realism and a Sense of Place,” Convergence journal.
2007: “Images and Sounds in Hypermedia: From Correspondence to Fusion,” for Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.
2003: Book proposal on national cinema by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen, for British Film Institute.
Academic Service
The New School
Search Committees
Food Studies, New School for General Studies
Cultural and Media Studies, Eugene Lang College
Ethnomusicology, Eugene Lang College / New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
Humanities, Eugene Lang College / Graduate Faculty
Other
Design & Social Science Curricular Task Force
Academic Technology Policy, Procedure, and Planning Committee
Reviewer, Provost’s Office Multi-Year Appointment Committee
Bachelor’s Program in Liberal Arts, Media Studies & Film Committee
Bachelor’s Program in Liberal Arts, Democracy & Cultural Pluralism (DCP) Committee
Eugene Lang College: Academic Curriculum Committee
Media and Cultural Studies Major Committee
Faculty Advisory Committee Academic Affairs Committee
Committee on Degree Programs Diversity Task Force
Committee on Research (assesssing ethical issues of social-sciences research project proposals)
MIT
Film & Media Studies Program
Film & Media Studies Curriculum Committee
Co-design and co-instructor (with Henry Jenkins) of new Introduction to Media Studies lecture course
Co-author (with Henry Jenkins) of report to Dean of Humanities, “Film and Media Studies at MIT: Goals and Future Directions”
Communications Forum: “Democracy in Cyberspace: Society, Politics, and the Virtual Republic.” Panel convenor, presenter, and moderator
Cultural Studies Project: Cultural Studies Project Steering Committee
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Academic advisor, Minor in French
Search Committee, Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
Teaching Evaluation Committee
Last updated: 22 June 2020