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 Recent Faculty Publications

Visual Studies, New Media, Medicine and Visual Culture;
Science, Technology and Embodiment; Cultural Studies, Performance Studies

Mark Olson is Visiting Lecturer in Visual Studies and Director of New Media & Information Technologies for HASTAC (Humanties, Arts, Sciences & Technology Advanced Collaboratory) at Duke University. He recently completed his dissertation on “Robotic Surgery, Human Fallibility, and the Politics of Care” in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on media (new & old - theory, practice, & history) and medicine & visual culture. As a compliment to his work with the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning Initiative, he is also collaborating on the development of a new interdisciplinary course that connects the study of the material culture of art history, architecture and archaeology with new media modes of representation and visualization.

Education:

• PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2009
• MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1998
• BA Drake University 1993

Recent Publications

1. Erin Ennis, Zoe Marie Jones, Paolo Mangiafico, Jennifer Rhee, Mitali Routh, Jonathan E. Tarr and Brett Walters. Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface. (2008). (Proceedings of the First International HASTAC Conference, Duke University, North Carolina, April 19-21, 2007) [available here]
2. Olson, M, ’Everybody Loves Our Town’: Scenes, Spatiality, Migrancy, in Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory, edited by T. Swiss, J. Sloop & A. Herman (1998), pp. 269 – 289, Malden, MA: Blackwell .
3. Olson, M & Sloop, J, A Politics of Meaning in Rhetorical Studies, in At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies, edited by T. Rosteck (1998), pp. 248 – 265, New York: Guilford Press .