Rebekah Rutkoff

Rebekah Rutkoff’s interdisciplinary research explores the crossroads of experimental film and media, poetics, and ancient and contemporary discourses about dreaming and cure. She the author of The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions (Semiotext(e), 2015), a collection of critical and performative texts on contemporary visual media, and the editor of a book of essays by and about the American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers (Austrian Film Museum/Columbia University Press, 2017). She has been the recipient of fellowships from Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Onassis Foundation. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her work on the pioneering computer artist Lillian Schwartz.

Ph.D.; The Graduate Center of the City University; English; 2013

B.A.; Oberlin College; Visual Art, English; 1995

COM 341 - DOCUMENTARY FILM AND MEDIA

COM 325 - ST: WRITING AND THE MOVING IMAGE

film and media studies, media production, poetics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, creative writing, visual studies

experimental film and media, psychoanalysis, creative writing