Paul Ardoin

Director of the Film/Media Program, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary School for Engagement

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Paul Ardoin is a scholar of post-1900 culture and theory. His scholarship on film has been cited by Vulture.com and Slate.com, and it has been published in journals like Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and Critique, as well as in his monograph, Not a Big Deal: Narrating to Unsettle, which includes new readings of the horror films Get Out and It Follows. He played key roles in major digital humanities projects about the film work of William S. Burroughs and Samuel Beckett. Lately he's been teaching: Film History and Film Theory. Lately he's been watching: The African Desperate, Wendy and Lucy, and Le Bonheur.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. University of Antwerp
  • Ph.D. Florida State University
  • MA Florida Atlantic University

Publications

  • Not a Big Deal: Narrating to Unsettle. U of Nebraska P, 2021.
  • Understanding Deleuze Understanding Modernism. Bloomsbury, 2014.
  • Understanding Bergson Understanding Modernism. Bloomsbury, 2013.