Virginia Kuhn

An expert in digital books, online education and feminist theory
  • Associate Professor of Cinema
  • Director, Honors in Multimedia Scholarship
  • Director, Digital Media and Culture Graduate Cerfiticate
Office: (213) 924-7315

Expertise

  • E-books
  • Video analytics
  • Supercomputing
  • Critical race theory
  • Feminist Theory
  • Digital Literacy and Multimedia Literacy
  • Critical Thinking
  • Visual Literacy
  • Digital Pedagogy
  • Video Essays
  • Digital Humanities
  • Critical Making and Theory-Practice

Languages

  • French

Additional Information

  • Recipient of National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment supercomputing allocation for Large Scale Video Analytics project, 2011-12
  • Co-Chair, Media Literacy and Pedagogical Outreach Scholarly Interest Group of Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2010-2013
  • Editorial Board Member: Kairos, Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Pre/Text Journal of Rhetorical Theory; Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
  • Author of one of the first digital, media-rich dissertations (received a Chancellor’s award for pursuing digital scholarship for University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
  • Author of first article published in Scalar, a USC-developed multimedia authoring platform (International Journal of Learning and Media)