Rebekah Rutkoff
Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences
973-596-3334
412 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
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.
Education
Ph.D. ; The Graduate Center of the City University ; English ; 2013

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

Teaching Interests
film and media studies, media production, poetics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, creative writing, visual studies
Past Courses
COM 303: VIDEO NARATIVE

COM 318: COMMUNICATION THEORY

COM 318: COMMUNICATION THEORY AND PRACTICE

COM 325: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION

COM 325: ST: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND MEDIA

COM 325: ST: MEDIA AND THE BODY

COM 325: ST: MEDIA AND TRAUMA

COM 325: ST: WOMEN, WRITING, CINEMA

COM 325: ST: WRITING AND THE MOVING IMAGE

COM 341: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND MEDIA

COM 351: DOCUMENTARY STUDIES

ENG 302: COMMUNICATION THEORY

ENG 353: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR PRINT

HSS 403: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - LITERATURE

HSS 403: LIT SEM:

HSS 403: LIT SEM: MEDIA, TRAUMA AND CURE - HONORS

HSS 403: LIT SEM: WOMEN, WRITING, CINEMA

HSS 403: LIT SEM:MEDIA, TRAUMA, CURE

Research Interests
experimental film and media, psychoanalysis, creative writing
Essay
"Ruskin, A Reading"
ArtForum, September, 2024.