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Education
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 B.A. English and Film Studies, Univeristy of California, Berkeley, 1986
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M.A. English, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
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Ph.D. Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, 1993
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Tenure Track Appointments
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Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 07/15/2005-
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Professor and Chair, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, 09/01/2004-05/31/2005
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Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, 09/01/2000-08/31/2004
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Associate Professor, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University, 09/01/1999-08/31/2000
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Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University, 09/01/1995-08/31/1999
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Assistant Professor, Program in Film Studies, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 09/01/1993-08/31/1995
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Non-Tenure Track Appointments
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Acting Director, Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine, 2004-2005
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Akira Mizuta Lippit's teaching and research focus on four primary areas: the history and theory of cinema, world literature and critical theory, Japanese film and culture, and visual cultural studies. Lippit's published work reflects these areas and includes two books, Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005) and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000). In addition to his two completed books, Lippit is presently finishing a book-length study on contemporary experimental film and video, and has begun research for a book on contemporary Japanese cinema, which looks at the relationship of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century Japanese culture to the concept of the world.
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Research Specialties
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History and theory of cinema, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, critical and literary theory, visual culture
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Funded Research
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Contracts and Grants Awarded
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At The Center Of The Outside: Contemporary Japanese Cinema In The World (Department of Education), Speer, Kathleen, Lippit, Akira Mizuta, $88,560, 06/01/2007-11/01/2008
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At The Center Of The Outside: Contemporary Japanese Cinema In The World (Award declined) (The Japan Foundation), Akira Mizuta Lippit, $65,000, 2006-2007
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The Atomic Phenomenon in Postwar Japanese Cinema, 1945-1995 (The Japan Foundation), Akira Mizuta Lippit, $65,000, 1997-1998
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Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
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Department of Literature and Theater, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Visiting Researcher, 1997-08
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The Department of Culture and Representation, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Japan, Visiting Researcher, 2007-08
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Conferences and Other Presentations
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Conference Presentations
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"At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere", Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Paper, Chicago, IL, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Refereed, 2006-2007
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"Introduction and discussion of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Nobody Knows (2004)", NA, Introduction and discussion , Los Angeles, CA, Directors Guild of America, Invited, 2006-2007
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Other Presentations
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"Becoming-Japanese, Becoming-Imperceptible: Cinema and Identification in a Time of War", Invited lecture, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2007-2008
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"In Japanese: "Gaikoku kara mita nihoneiga" (Japanese cinema seen from abroad)", Invited lecture, Josai International University, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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"In Japanese: Symposium, "Kyôchô suru humanity, yudô suru hyôshô" (An expanding humanity, swaying representation)", Invited symposium presentation, Department of Culture and Representation, Tokyo University, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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"The Other Materialities of Film, with Tom Cohen", Public seminar, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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"At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere", Invited lecture, Mama: Multimedia Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, 2006-2007
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"At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere", Invited lecture, Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2006-2007
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"Spectral Life and the Image of Biography", Invited lecture, "‘Who?’ or ‘What’—Jacques Derrida" , University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2006-2007
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"The Extraordinary Cinema of Matthias Müller", Invited lecture, "Matthias Müller: Multimedia Poet" , Boston University, Boston, MA, 2006-2007
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"The Parable of Animals: Animated Language", Keynote lecture, "Tiere im Film - eine Menschheitsgeschichte" (Animals in Film: A History of Humankind), The University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 2006-2007
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"The Returns of Hiroshima: Between Languages, Literatures, and Incommensurate Phenomena", Invited lecture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2006-2007
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"The World Archive and Universal Research", Invited lecture, "What Is Research in the Visual Arts?: Obsession, Archive, Encounter", The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2006-2007
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"Universality and Ultra-Universality in Forty Years of Ultraman", Invited presentation, "Fortieth Anniversary of the Ultraman Series" , The University of Tokyo, Komaba and The University of Southern California, Tokyo, Japan and Los Angeles, CA, 2006-2007
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Publications
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Book
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Lippit, A. M.
(2005).
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics). Minneapolis, MN: Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)/University of Minnesota Press.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2000).
Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife. Minneapolis, MN: Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife/University of Minnesota Press.
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Book Chapter
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Lippit, A. M.
(2007).
"Ultra-Universality". pp. 55-63. Berlin: Glamour.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2007).
"The Only Other Apparatus of Film (A Few Fantasies About Différance, Démontage, and Revision in Experimental Film and Video)". pp. 171-91. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2006).
"One Two Three: The Psychic Economy of Multiplicity". pp. 174-188. New York, NY: Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood/Columbia University Press.
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Journal Article
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Lippit, A. M.
(2008).
In Japanese, Roundtable: "Posutohumanizumu no yohaku ni: ridandanshî, habitosu, gûhatsusei" (On the Margins of Posthumanism: Redundancy, Habitus, Contingency). Hyosho: Journal of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation. (2), pp. 53-79.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2007).
In Japanese: "Heisoku suru jinbungaku wo koete—ima geijitsu wo tou" (Overcoming an obstructive humanities—questioning art now). Hyosho/University of Tokyo.
Vol. 1 (2007), pp. 34-69.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2005).
"Oectopus". Octopus.
Vol. One, pp. 9-13.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2005).
"The Derrida that I Love". Grey Room.
Vol. 20, pp. 84-9.
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Service to the Profession
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Editorships and Editorial Boards
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General Editor (since 2005); Editorial Board (since 1999), Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 2007-2008
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Editorial Board (since 2000), Film Quarterly, 2007-2008
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Advisory Board (since 2005), Journal of Visual Culture, 2007-2008
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Editorial Board (since 2005), Postmodern Culture, 2007-2008
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Professional Offices
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Board of Directors (2005-08), Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2007-2008
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Professional Memberships
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2007-2008
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Reviewer for Publication
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Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Duke University Press, Article review, 2007-2008
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Film and literature, Columbia University Press, Book manuscript, 2007-2008
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Postmodern Culture, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Article review, 2007-2008
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Translation, German philosophy, University of Minnesota Press, Book manuscript, 2007-2008
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Translation, Japanese critcism, University of Minnesota Press, Book manuscript, 2007-2008
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ECHO, Article review, 2006-2007
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Journal of Visual Culture, Sage, Article review 1, 2006-2007
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Journal of Visual Culture, Sage, Article review 2, 2006-2007
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New book series, University of Minnesota Press, Proposal for new series, 2006-2007
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Postmodern Culture, Article review, 2006-2007
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Media, Alumni, and Community Relations
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Interviewed for an article on film schools in the United States, Japan Economic Times (Nihon Keizai Shimbun), 2007-2008
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Radio Interview, "Electric Animal: Interview with Akira Lippit" on "Animal Voices," CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto, Canada, 12 February 2008, 2007-2008
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Interviewed for an article on Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima," USA Today, 2006-2007
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Interviewed for an article on representations of Godzilla, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust, The Jewish Journal, 2006-2007
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Juror and commentator, "Picture Battle," Japanese-language TV program, United Television Broadcasting Systems (Channel 18, Los Angeles), 2006-2007
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Other Service to the Profession
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Fulbright Commission, Interviewer, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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Programming committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, annual conference, 2007-2008
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Programming committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, annual conference, 2005-2006
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