Anne Friedberg

Anne Friedberg is Chair of the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. An author, historian and theorist of modern media culture, Professor Friedberg received her PhD. in Cinema Studies from NYU. She was on the faculty of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine, where she was the principal architect for a new interdisciplinary PhD program in Visual Studies and the founding director and programmer of UCI's Film and Video Center. In 2003, she joined the USC faculty, where she has been instrumental in the creation of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate.

Professor Friedberg has lectured widely in this country and abroad, including invited talks in Berlin , Frankfurt, Bonn, Vienna, Tokyo, Montreal, Bern, Lausanne, Stockholm, Prague, and at the Guggenheim Museum/NY, Art Institute/Chicago, and Getty Museum/LA. In 2001-2002, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. During 2005-2006, she was a fellow at USC’s Annenberg Center as a member of the themed research group, "Networked Publics".

Professor Friedberg's current research and teaching interests include: film and media histories and theories, old media/new media historiographies, critical theory/ feminist theory, nineteenth century visual culture and early cinema, theories of vision and visuality, architecture and film, global media culture.

Professor Friedberg was a key participant at the Televisuality Symposium at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on April 11, 2008.

Publications

*"The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft", by Anne Friedberg (The MIT Press, 2006)

*“Televisual Space”: Special Issue of "Journal of Visual Culture", coedited by Anne Friedberg and Raiford Guins (2004)

*"Close-Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism", coedited by Anne Friedberg, James Donald and Laura Marcus (Princeton University Press, 1998)

*"Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern", by Anne Friedberg (University of California Press, 1993)

*"Les Flaneurs de Mal(1)": Cinema and the Postmodern Condition," by Anne Friedberg ("PMLA", Journal of the Modern Language Association, 1991)

Honors

*Faculty Fellow, Annenberg Center, USC 2005-2006
*Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute, 2001-2002 [http://getty.edu/research/scholarly_activities/annual_themes/2001-2002.html]
*UCI Humanities Center Faculty Research Grant, 2000, 1998, 1995
*UCI Celebration of Teaching Award in the Humanities, 1997
*UCI Humanities Associates Teaching Award 1992
*NEH Travel Award, 1991
*ARTSPACE New Writing in Arts Criticism Award, 1988
*NEH Fellow, Summer Institute, Harvard, 1987

References

*http://www.uscenglish.com/faculty.cfm?action=detail&faculty_id=51
*http://www-cntv.usc.edu/academic_programs/critical_studies/academic-critical-professors.cfm

External links

* http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/2808.html
* http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10780
* http://netpublics.annenberg.edu/afriedberg/blog
* http://www.thevirtualwindow.net/