Damon R. Young
Associate Professor
damonyoung@berkeley.eduCV
On leave 2021-2022
Research Areas
Film and media theory; global art cinema (with a focus on French and francophone); gender and sexuality studies; cultural studies; contemporary media; critical theory;?digital media studies.Professor Young’s first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies?(Duke, 2018), explores how fears and fantasies about women’s and queer sexualities shaped film aesthetics in France and the US from the late 1950s through to the present.?
His current book project,?“After the Private Self,” studies the way?different media?— from the written diary to Instagram?— structure different forms of subjectivity. From?the interiority accessed--or produced--through writing in?Rousseau’s?Confessions?to the simultaneous hypertrophy and disappearance of the "self" in digital media culture,?the project investigates?the technological/media grounds of the?modern and postmodern self.
Professor Young is a member of the Bully Bloggers collective.?
Read an interview in Film Quarterly here:
The Liberal Sexual Subject: A Conversation with Damon R.?Young.