Contact Information

•Position: University Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures; T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts and Vice Dean of Faculty, School of Cinematic Arts

•Affiliation: University of Southern California

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Education

•Ph.D., John Hopkins University - [Field of Study]

Professional Experience

Current Positions

•University Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California (USC)

◦Teaching courses related to world film and literature, critical theory, Japanese cinema and culture, experimental film, and visual studies.

◦Advising graduate and undergraduate students on research projects and theses.

•T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts and Vice Dean of Faculty, School of Cinematic Arts, USC

◦Overseeing faculty development, recruitment, and evaluation.

◦Contributing to the strategic planning and academic vision of the school.

Past Positions

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Research Interests

•World Film and Literature

•Critical Theory

•Japanese Cinema and Culture

•Experimental Film

•Visual Studies

Publications

•Books:

◦Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000)

◦Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005)

◦Ex - Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (2012)

◦Cinema Without Reflection: Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift (2016)

•Articles and Chapters: Lippit's work has been widely published in numerous academic journals and anthologies, with translations into Croatian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Spanish.

Awards and Honors

•Fulbright - Hays Award

•Japan Foundation Award

•Academy of Korean Studies Research Award

•USC Mentoring Award (Faculty) in 2016

•USC Dornsife College Albert S. Raubenheimer Award for Distinguished Research and Teaching in 2019

•Named University Professor in 2023

Professional Activities

•Editorial Roles:

◦General Editor of the journal Discourse

◦Founding Editor of the visual culture journal ecce in Japan

•Film Community Involvement:

◦Programming events, serving on festival juries, and interviewing filmmakers in the independent film community.

◦Actively involved in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Visual History Project.