Mark J. Olson, Visiting 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
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • 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
Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • VISUALST 184S.01, VISUAL CULTURES OF MEDICINE Synopsis
    East Duke 204A, Th 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
  • VISUALST 200S.01, THEORIES OF VISUAL STUDIES Synopsis
    Smith 101, Th 01:15 PM-03:45 PM
Education:

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

Visual Studies, New Media, Medicine and Visual Culture;
Franklin Center
Science, Technology and Embodiment; Cultural Studies, Performance Studies
Research Interests:

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)

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 .