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

Mark Olson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Duke University. 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. Olson is the former Director of New Media & Information Technologies for HASTAC (Humanties, Arts, Sciences & Technology Advanced Collaboratory)

Education:

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

Office Hours:

Tuesdays, 8:30 - 11:30 AMTeaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

• Visualst 183.01, Cultural history of tv Synopsis

  East duke 108, MW 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• Visualst 270s.01, New media, memory and archive Synopsis

  East duke 204a, M 11:40 AM-02:10 PM

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 .