VAC3: Screen Cultures
About
We focus on the creative and critical cultures that develop around screen media (film, television, video, art installation, the Internet and games).
Open to New People
Active since: 2013
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Hamilton College
- Le Moyne College
Collaborative Goals
Our collaborative goals are threefold:
- to develop innovative programming and curation around screen cultures;
- to foster pedagogic collaboration around film and screen studies amongst faculty and graduate students in the corridor; and
- to build scholarly community by sharing our research and initiating collaborative scholarship.
Group Organizers
Group Members
- Joanne Bernardi, Professor, Japanese and Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
- Matthew Fee, Lecturer and Director, Integral Honors Program, Le Moyne College
- Chris Hanson, Associate Professor, English, Syracuse University
- Aniruddha (Ani) Maitra, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Colgate University
- Jason Middleton, Associate Professor, English and Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
- Kyoko Omori, Associate Professor, Japanese, Hamilton College
- Will Scheibel, Professor, English, Syracuse University
- Leah Shafer, Associate Professor, Media and Society, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Activities
"The Videographic Epigraph” (Beginner’s Workshop)
Sept. 27, 2025, 10 a.m.
“Grant’s Constraint” (Intermediate Workshop)
Sept. 26, 2025, 9 a.m.