Erica Levin
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Associate Professor of History of Art
She/Her
Areas of Expertise
- Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema
- Post-War and Contemporary Art
- Performance
- Media Studies
- Film Theory
- Visual Culture
Education
- Ph.D., Film and Media Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., Rhetoric/Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., Film Studies, Wesleyan University
Erica Levin’s research focuses on the intersection between avant-garde cinema, post-war art, documentary, performance, and visual culture. Her writing has been published in Media-N, World Picture, Camera Obscura, Docalogue, Discourse, and Millennium Film Journal, and in the collections Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s; Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable; Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975; and A Companion to Experimental Cinema. Her recent essay, “To assemble is to think through this world: Narrative Desire in the Films of Ana Vaz,” appears in Afterimage.
Her recent book is entitled The Channeled Image: Art and Media Politics After Television.
