Jules Odendahl-James
Contact Info:Office Location: Art Building, East Campus, Room 200F
Office Phone: +1 919 660 4378, 919-660-4368
E-mail Address:
Typical Courses Taught:
- Writing 20, Writing performance
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- Writing 20, Crime scene imagination
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- Writing 20, Academic writing
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- Office Hours:
- Variable by semester.
- PhD, Univeristy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2003
- M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1999
- M.F.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1996
Performance Studies and Visual Culture
Current projects:
Anatomies of Forensic Media (edited collection), Evidence Doesn't Lie: Documentary Performance and the Forensic Imagination
Dissertation explores the performative nature of photography in relationship to non-normative women subjects and their representation in visual culture.
Current research on the "forensic imagination," a resurgence of belief in the infallibility of science and scientific testing to determine criminal culpability. This imagination is dramatized in prime-time shows like CSI, Bones, and even House, M.D. Its impact can be seen in the very technological apparatuses--forensic media--used to capture, analyze, and report data. Although philosophically antithetical to narrative, in practice the forensic imagination imbues the scientific method with the power of story, dramatizing the ways in which fictions and facts are social constructions.
Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- J. Odendahl. "Longinotto, Kim." Encyclopedia of Documentary Film. Routledge, 2006. (Encyclopedia Entry.)
- J. Odendahl. "The Thin Blue Line." Encyclopedia of Documentary Film. Routledge, 2006. (Encyclopedia Entry.)
- J. Odendahl. "Arts Funding and Censorship." Social Issues: An Encyclopedia of Controversies, Histories, and Debates. Ed. James Ciment East River Books, 2006: 169-77. (Article-length encyclopedia entry.)
- J. Odendahl, "Embodied Views to the Visual Through Interdisciplinary and Reflexive Methodologies". Text and Performance Quarterly (January, 2003). [abs]
- J. Odendahl. "Giving, Loving, and Writing."
M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 5:6
(November, 2002).
November, 2002