The Material and Visual Worlds Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence supports innovative research, scholarship and creative practice across a range of disciplines that engage things and images as gatherings of technologies, materials, histories and interactions extending through space and time. The Material and Visual Worlds Working Group is a central element of this project: a reading group for faculty and graduate students that critically engages scholarship and practice centrally concerned with issues of materiality and/or visuality.
Members of the Working Group
Corinne Black
Comparative Literature
cblack4@binghamton.edu
Research interests: literature, speculative fiction, philosophy, cinema, digital media
Debora Faccion
Art History
dfaccio1@binghamton.edu
Research interests: Latin American modern and contemporary art, critical studies,
semiotics
Gabrielle Hanley-Mott
Anthropology
ghanley1@binghamton.edu
Research interests: medical anthropology, phenomenology, prostheses, injury
Laura Johnsen
Anthropology
ljohnse1@binghamton.edu
Research interests: pornography, teledidlonics, virtual reality
Daniel J. Leja
Anthropology
dleja1@binghamton.edu
Research interests: landscapes, material culture, ideology, archaeological classification
Patricia G. Markert
Anthropology
pmarkert@binghamton.edu
Research interests: historical archaeology, landscape, memory and migration, oral
history, narrative analysis
Mariah Postlewait
Art History
mpostle1@binghamton.edu
Research interests: postwar American photography, power and representation, identity,
class, critical and cultural studies