David Joshua Benin

Vitae David Joshua Benin Vitae 69 Brosnan St., San Francisco, CA 94103 ~ ph 415.609.2162 ~ djbeningmail.com

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: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~ccalabro/hors_categorie/index.html

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

COCU 125: How to Read a Film (Summer II, 2008) Department of Communication University of California, San Diego

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