Peter KrappAssociate Professor, Film & Media Studies Associate Professor, English Faculty Affiliate, Informatics |
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Research Interests |
digital culture and media history, secret communications, history & theory of gadgets, games and simulations, representations of north and south pole regions, cultural memory | |
| URLs | www.krapp.org | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Invited lectures in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the US Fellowships from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the DFG (German National Science Foundation), and from the University of California, Santa Barbara Visiting Professorships at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and at the Tainan National University of Art, Taiwan; Research Fellow at Konstanz University, Germany; Visiting Media Theorist at Otis College of Art, LA; Lecturer at Eastern Maximum Security Prison, New York |
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| Appointments |
Taught at the University of Minnesota, and at Bard College, before coming to Irvine Courtesy appointments in the Department of English and the Department of Informatics |
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Research Abstract |
Research interests include digital culture and media history, secret communications and cultural memory, history & theory of gadgets, games and simulations, representations of North and South Pole regions Seminars and lectures on archives, secrecy, computer games and machinima, film title design, media theory, new media art Author of Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press 2004) and editor of Medium Cool (Duke University Press 2002: special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly) |
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| Publications |
Déjà Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) Co-editor, Medium Cool (Duke University Press, 2002: SAQ 101:3) |
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| Grants | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Leopoldina (Young Academy) | |
| California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology | ||
| UCI Humanities Center, Vice Chancellor for Research, Critical Theory Institute, International Center for Writing and Translation | ||
| University of California Humanities Research Institute | ||
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | ||
| Federal Research Fellowship (DFG), Theory of Literature and Communication, University of Konstanz | ||
| German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD) | ||
| Konrad Adenauer Fellowship | ||
| International Human Rights Exchange, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | ||
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Professional Societies |
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Modern Language Association (MLA) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) National Communications Association (NCA) |
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| Other Experience |
Director, Visual Studies UC Irvine 2006—2008 |
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Information Technology Committee SCMS 2006—2008 |
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Chair, Computing Advisory Committee UCI School of Humanities 2005—2008 |
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Council on Planning and Budget (chair, 08-09) UC Irvine 2006—2009 |
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Dean's Advisory Group Humanities, UC Irvine 2005—2007 |
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Space Planning Team UC Irvine 2006—2009 |
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Humanities Executive Committee (chair, 07-08) UC Irvine 2006—2009 |
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Academic Planning Group UC Irvine 2006—2009 |
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University Committee on Planning and Budget (chair, 2009-10) UC Academic Senate, Oakland 2008—2010 |
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Steering Committee IUCRP (Berkeley) 2008—2009 |
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Budget Work Group UC Irvine 2008—2010 |
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Curatorial Review Board Beall Center for Art and Technology 2006—- |
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Academic Council UCOP 2009—2010 |
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| Graduate Programs |
Visual Studies |
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| Research Center | UC MRG "Transliteracies" (http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu) | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5102 | |
| Last updated | 10/01/2009 | |