Mark J. Olson, Assistant Professor

Mark J. Olson
Contact Info:
Office Location:  A242 Smith Warehouse
Office Phone:  (919) 812-0159, (919) 613-6726
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:  

Teaching (Spring 2012):

  • HOUSECS 79.06, INTERFACE OF BIOL, MED, & ART Synopsis
    SEE INSTRU, Sun 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • VMS 200S.01, VISUAL MEDIA STUDIES CAPSTONE Synopsis
    East Duke 204A, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
  • VMS 201SL.001, WIRED! NEW REPRESENT TECH Synopsis
    Smith 12S228, Th 10:05 AM-11:35 AM
  • VMS 201SL.01L, WIRED! NEW REPRESENT TECH Synopsis
    Smith 12S228, Th 11:40 AM-01:05 PM
Education:

PhDUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2009
MAUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1998
BADrake University1993
Specialties:

Franklin Center
Visual Studies/Visual Culture
Medicine and Visual Culture
Media Studies
Media History
Performance Studies
Theory & Criticism
Digital Media
New Media
New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials
Research Interests:

Mark Olson is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Duke University. He teaches courses on media (new & old - theory, practice, & history) and medicine & visual culture. As a extension of his past work with the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning Initiative, he collaborates on the development of a new interdisciplinary project 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) and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies.

Recent Publications

  1. with 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 .