Benjamin OLINAssistantProfessor
Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, New York University
M.A. in Aural and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
M.A. in Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway, University of London
B.A. (Hons) in American Studies (Literature), University of Sussex

Courses TaughtGraduate Level:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Studies
Undergraduate Level:
American Literature
Technoscience Culture
City Culture and Hong Kong Urbanscape
Interdisciplinary Approaches to English Studies
English Skills
Hong Kong Kung Fu Novels, Films, and Chinese Culture
Research InterestsFilm and Media History and Theory
Visual Culture
Critical Theory
Contemporary Art
Gender Studies
Performance Studies
Experimental Film and Literature

Selected Publications“Sculpting the Teleculture:The Franklin Street Arts Center and the Live Injection Point,”
Art Journal 78, no. 3 (Fall 2019): 76-95.
“Reframing the New York School: Public Access Poetry and the Screening of Poetic Coterie,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, no. 59.1 (Spring 2018): 47-85.
“‘What are we watching?!’: An Interview with Coleen Fitzgibbon about Colab TV,” Millennium Film Journal, no. 65 (Spring 2017): 64-76.
“‘Readers of the Future’: Gary Lenhart on Public Access Poetry,” in Jacket 2, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2016).
“TV Party: A Cocktail Party That Could Also be a Political Party,” inDowntown Film andTV Culture 1975-2001, ed. Joan Hawkins (Bristol: Intellect, 2015), 193-211.
“Researching Artists’ Television,” in Transfer Station Exhibition Catalog, New Museumfor Contemporary Art, New York (New Museum, 2013).
FLOSS (Free/Libré/Open Source Software) co-authored with Aniruddha Shankar and G. Karunakar, ed. Monica Narula (Delhi: Sarai-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2006).
Selected Conference Presentations“Dragging Prime Time.” Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games International Conference, Department of English Studies, University of Murcia, December 2021.
“The Circulation of Artists’ Television and the Production of Imagined Counterpublics.” From Celluloid to Streaming: Conservation and Circulation of Small Cinemas, 12^th Edition of the Small Cinemas Conference, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, October 2021.
The Moving Image as Subject and Practice in American Art Talks Series, Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, June 2021. (Invited Respondent)
“Screened Out/Screened Off: Anton Perich Presents and Televisual Embodiment.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, “On-Screen Identities: Body in Film and Digital Media” Seminar, April 2021.
“Excavating the Franklin Street Arts Center: An Archaeology of a Speculative Media Ecology.” Technically Yours: Technicity, Mediality, and the Stakes of Experience Conference, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, October 2019.
Grants and Awards
Courtauld Institute of Art, Honorarium
Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University, UIC, Research Development Grant
New York University, Graduate School of Arts & Science, Postdoctoral Fellowship
New York University, Graduate School of Arts & Science, Dean’s Dissertation Award
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Corrigan Doctoral Fellowship
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, Sarai New Media Initiative Visiting Scholar Fellowship