Deborah Levitt

Deborah Levitt is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is a media historian and theorist whose teaching and research interests range across moving image forms, including animation and digital cinema, and topics in media and cultural theory, including biopolitics and affect studies. Her publications include an essay on media and biopolitics in The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (Edinburgh University Press 2008), and contributions to The Agamben Dictionary on “Gesture” and “Spectacle” (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). She has also co-authored the film theory chapter in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010, 2011, 2012) and co-edited a volume, Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture: Bodies, Screens, Renderings (Transcript Verlag, 2012). Her first book, The Animatic Apparatus, is forthcoming from Zero Books.