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    Mark J. Olson

  • Mark J. Olson

  • Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Studies
  • Art, Art History & Visual Studies
  • A242 Smith Warehouse, Bay 11
  • Campus Box 90766
  • Phone: (919) 812-0159, (919) 613-6726
  • Fax: (919) 681-1378
  • Homepage

  • Specialties

    • Visual Studies/Visual Culture
    • Medicine and Visual Culture
    • Media Studies
    • Media History
    • Performance Studies
    • Theory & Criticism
    • Digital Media
    • New Media
    • New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials

  • Research Description

    Mark Olson is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Duke University. He teaches courses on media (new & old - theory, practice, & history) and medicine & visual culture. As a extension of his past work with the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning Initiative, he collaborates on the development of a new interdisciplinary project that connects the study of the material culture of art history, architecture and archaeology with new media modes of representation and visualization. Olson is the former Director of New Media & Information Technologies for HASTAC (Humanties, Arts, Sciences & Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies.

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • Communication Studies,
      • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
      • 2009
      • MA,
      • Communication Studies,
      • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
      • 1998
      • BA,
      • Speech Communication,
      • Drake University,
      • 1993

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Mellon Faculty Book Manuscript Completion Fellow,
      • Franklin Humanities Institute,
      • 2012-2013

  • Recent Publications

      • with
      • Erin Ennis, Zoe Marie Jones, Paolo Mangiafico, Jennifer Rhee, Mitali Routh, Jonathan E. Tarr and Brett Walters.
      • Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface.
      • 2008.
      • (Proceedings of the First International HASTAC Conference, Duke University, North Carolina, April 19-21, 2007).
      • [web]
      • Olson, M.
      • "’Everybody Loves Our Town’: Scenes, Spatiality, Migrancy."
      • Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory.
      • Ed. T. Swiss, J. Sloop & A. Herman.
      • Malden, MA: Blackwell,
      • 1998.
      • 269 – 289.
      • Olson, M & Sloop, J.
      • "A Politics of Meaning in Rhetorical Studies."
      • At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies.
      • Ed. T. Rosteck.
      • New York: Guilford Press,
      • 1998.
      • 248 – 265.
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  • Postdoctoral Students

    • Rebecca Bennett
      • Fall, 2012

  • Teaching

    • VISUALST 270S
      • NEW MEDIA, MEMORY AND ARCHIVE
    • VISUALST 183
      • CULTURAL HISTORY OF TV
    • VISUALST 184S
      • VISUAL CULTURES OF MEDICINE