Nico Baumbach holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University. His research and teaching focus on critical theory, film theory, documentary, and the intersection of aesthetic and political philosophy. His first book, Cinema/Politics/Philosophy, was released by Columbia University Press in 2019. He is currently finishing a book titled The Anonymous Image and working on another project on conspiracy theory and critical theory.

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2016
Shareable Cinema: The Politics of Abbas Kiarostami /?The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema, ed. Seung-Hoon Jeong and Jeremi Szaniawski, Bloomsbury, 2016.??
2016
Revisiting Postmodernism: An Interview with Fredric Jameson?(with Damon Young and Genevieve Yue) /?Social Text?127, Vol 34, No. 2, June 2016.?
2016
Introduction: For a Political Critique of Culture?(with Damon Young and?Genevieve Yue) /?Social Text?127, Vol 34, No. 2, June 2016.?
2014
On Likeness?/?booklet essay,?Like Someone in Love?(Japan, d. Abbas Kiarostami), DVD and Bluray, Criterion Collection.??
2014
False Movements: Or, What Counts as Cinema for Deleuze??/?Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture?36.1.? ?
2013
Philosophy’s Film: On Alain Badiou’s Cinema?/?Los Angeles Review of Books
2013
What Does It Mean To Call Film an Art??/ in?Rancière?and?Film, ed. Paul Bowman, Edinburgh University?Press
2013
Act?Now! Or, For an Untimely Eisenstein?/ in?Sergei?M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema, ed.?Antonio Somaini and Naum Kleiman, Amsterdam University?Press.?
2012
Rancière and the Persistence of Film Theory?/ in?Critical Cinema:?Beyond the Theory of Practice, ed. Clive Myer, Wallflower Press.??
2012
All That Heaven Allows: What is, or was, Cinephilia?/?Film Comment. ??
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2010
Rancière and the Fictional Capacity of Documentary?/ in?New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol. 8.1.
2009
Nature Caught In The Act?/?Comparative Critical Studies, Vol. 6.3.










Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies