JASON NEBERGALL
neb@u.northwestern.edu
EDUCATION
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): Currently attending
- Screen Cultures
- Advisor: Lynn Spigel
- Committee: Lynn Spigel, Jeffrey Sconce, Domietta Torlasco
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): MA Humanities June 2015
- Emphasis in Cinema & Media Studies
- Thesis Title: Ernie Kovacs’ Silent Show: Performative Identities in Othered Masculinity
- Advisor: Professor Jacqueline Stewart
The University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA): BA Cinema May 2005
- Minor in Art History (emphasis in Gothic Architecture)
- Honors Program, Dean’s List
PAPERS
- An Unresolved Progression: The Young People’s Concerts and Postwar Taste Cultures
- The Uncanny Films of Marjorie Keller
- “When the anthropologist arrives, the gods depart”: Maya Deren in Haiti
- Segments of Eternity: The Rhythms of Hollis Frampton’s Critical Mass
- The Aesthetique du Cool: Miles Davis, France, and Performances of Black Masculinity
- Resistant Knowledges: Pseudoscience, Fake News, and Ancient Aliens
- Tender Souls: Political Correctness, Nostalgia and the Delegitimization of Critique
- Dick Gregory and Activist Comedy
CONFERENCES
- Expanded Minds, Expanded Television: Psychedelic Broadcasts of the 1970s Counterculture, SCMS Conference, Seattle, Washington, 3/14/2019
- Videospace: Abstract Video on American Public Television, Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, UK, 6/30/2018
- Descartes in Videospace: Joanne Kyger and Abstract Video, Console-Ing Passions Conference, Bournemouth University, UK, 7/11/2018
- Against ‘Iconic’: The American Cinematic Avant-Garde and the Kennedy Assassination Backward Glances: Mediating Resistance, Northwestern University 9/29/17
- Ernie Kovacs’ Journey to the American Middlebrow MAPH Works in Progress Conference, University of Chicago 2/27/15
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
- Cultural History of New Media (Spring 2018)
- Independent Study: Irrational Ontology (Spring 2018)
- Independent Study: Alternative Media (Winter 2018)
- Race and Media Studies (Winter 2018)
- Textual Analysis (Winter 2018)
- Cultural History of Television (Autumn 2017)
- Film Theory & Criticism (Autumn 2017)
- Media and the Environment (Autumn 2017)
- Modes of Cultural Analysis (Spring 2017)
- Feminism and Media Culture (Spring 2017)
- Media & Theories of Everyday Life (Spring 2017)
- Visual Culture and Media (Winter 2017)
- TV and Media Theory (Winter 2017)
- Ethnographic Documentary (Winter 2017)
- Race and Stardom (Autumn 2016)
- Irrational Media (Autumn 2016)
- Media Historiography (Autumn 2016)
- Ernst Lubitsch: An International Style (Spring 2015)
- Special Effects (Spring 2015)
- Postwar American Avant-Garde Cinema (Winter 2015)
- African-American Humor (Winter 2015)
- Methods and Issues in Film Criticism (Autumn 2014)
- The History and Theory of the Avant-Garde (Winter 2014)
- Orson Welles (Autumn 2014)
- Styles and Genres: Contemporary European Cinema (Spring 2004)
- Styles and Genres: Film Noir (Autumn 2003)
- Styles and Genres: Comedy (Autumn 2003)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
The University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities (Chicago, IL) October 2015 to June 2016
- Department Assistant (Classics, Linguistics, and South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
- Updated and maintained departmental websites
- Processed faculty expense reports
- Designed and produced departmental signage
The University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities (Chicago, IL) July 2015 to October 2015
Media and Content Intern
- Worked with the Senior Director of Programming to coordinate with Alumni Relations department on videos
- Worked with the Communications Manager on organizing files and web documents