Scott Selberg
Scott Selberg Assistant Professor
Renshaw Hall 203
Scott Selberg teaches courses in media studies, with a focus on history, theory and criticism. He is particularly invested in interdisciplinary thinking, exploring how the tools of media studies can enrich study across the sciences and the humanities. Selberg's current research explores the history of media technologies used by birders and ornithologists to depict and identify birds. Selberg joined °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ in 2023 after serving on the faculties of Portland State University and the University of Arizona. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan.
Courses he teaches at Linfield include:
- JAMS 150: Living in a Media World
- JAMS 230: Media Theory and Research
- JAMS 324: Podcasting and Audio Production
- JAMS 327: Intro to Film
- JAMS 330: Media History
- JAMS 339: Media, Communication and Health
- JAMS 362: Ads, Brands, and Culture
- JAMS 365: Film Genres
- JAMS 485: Senior Capstone
- INQS 125: Selfies and Social Media
Education
- B.A., Art History, Williams College
- M.A., Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Ph.D., Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
Academic interests
- Media studies
- Science technology and society
- Health and medicine
- Cultural studies
- Film and television
- Disability
- Artificial intelligence
- Media literacy
Publications
Mediating Alzheimer’s: Cognition and Personhood in America. University of Minnesota Press. 2022.
Rhinestone Cowboy: Alzheimer’s, Celebrity, and the Collusions of Self. American Quarterly 69, 4 (2017): 883-901.
Modern Art as Public Care: Alzheimer’s and the Aesthetics of Universal Personhood. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29, 4 (2015): 473-491.
Dementia on the Canvas: Art and the Biopolitics of Creativity. In Popularizing Dementia: Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness. Edited by Mark Schweda & Aagje Swinnen, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.