CURRICULUM VITAE
Selected. Updated September 2021.
 
Kyle Stine, PhD
Faculty in Film and Media Studies
​Johns Hopkins University
 
EDUCATION
PhD   Film Studies, University of Iowa
MA    Media Arts, University of Arizona
BA     English, Michigan State University
 
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
  • Faculty in Film and Media, Johns Hopkins University
  • Adjunct Professor in Art History, Maryland Institute College of Art
  • Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, McGill University
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa
 
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
  • Teaching Innovation Grant, Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University
  • External Project Fellow, Media of Cooperation Collaborative Research Center, University of Siegen, Germany
  • Scholar in Residence, MFA in Filmmaking Program, Maryland Institute College of Art
  • Smithsonian Fellowship, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
  • SSHRC Connection Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada, Hardwired Temporalities Symposium, McGill University
  • Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship, McGill University
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • Residency, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa
 
RESEARCH
​Publications
Books Articles Book Chapters
  • “Film as the First Universal Data Medium,” in Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data. Eds. Marcus Burckhardt, Daniela van Geenen, Carolin Gerlitz, Sam Hind, Timo Kaerlein, Danny Lämmerhirt, and Axel Volmar. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. (forthcoming).
  • Kyle Stine and Axel Volmar, “Infrastructures of Time: An Introduction to Hardwired Temporalities,” in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time: Essays on Hardwired Temporalities. Eds. Axel Volmar and Kyle Stine. Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Conference Presentations
  • “Cinema as an Environmental Technology,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March 2021.
  • “A Cinema Without Us: On Logistics (2012),” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Toronto, ON, March 2018
  • “Ambient Drones and Data Centers: On the Cultural Techniques of Sound Processing,” SCMS, Chicago, IL, March 2017.
  • “Cinema as a Geological Force, or: There Is No Carbon-Neutral Production,” SCMS, Montreal, QC, March 2015.
  • “CAD/CAM and the History of Computer Animation,” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Dearborn, MI, November 8, 2014.
  • “Auto-Animation: The Regression of the Hand and the Folding of Machine Vision and CGI,” SCMS, Seattle, WA, March 2013.
  • “Orders of Finitude: Thinking Cinema on the Geological Scale,” Visions of Scale, University of Chicago Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2013
  • “Cybernetic Movie Machines: Norbert Wiener’s Cinema Integraph and Richard S. Morse’s ‘Data Soundtracks,’” SCMS, Chicago, IL, March 2013.
  • “‘A Sense of Scale’: Crises of Information, Picturing, and Speed,” 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): Nonhuman, Milwaukee, WI, September 2012.
  • “Cinematic Testing Grounds: The Environment as Laboratory and the Case of Ghost Bird (2009),” SCMS, Boston, MA, March 2012.
  • “Re-Sorting to Violence: Technologies of Montage and the Take-Off of Acronyms,” SCMS, New Orleans, LA, March 2011.
  • “Beyond Influence and Adaptation: Film Noir and Radio Mysteries of the 1940s,” Conference of the PCA/ACA, SW/TX, Albuquerque, NM, February 2007.
  • “The Verbal-Visual ‘Touch’: Reconsidering Ernst Lubitsch’s Transition to Sound.” PCA/ACA, SW/TX. Albuquerque, NM, February 2006.
Smithsonian Lecture
  • “Cinema in the Integrated Circuit,” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, August 2016.
Presentations in Montreal
  • “Circuits of Reproduction: Toward an Archaeology of Machine Perception,” Department of Art History and Communication Studies Speaker Series, Montreal, Quebec, February 2014
  • “An Archaeology of Machine Perception,” Montreal Postdoctoral Research Exchange, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, February 2014
Presentations at the University of Iowa
  • “Cinema, Environment, Catastrophe: Is a European Green Politics a Contradiction?” Green Politics II: European Studies Conference, University of Iowa, December 2011.
  • “Synthetic Cinema Before the Digital,” Craft Critique Culture, University of Iowa, April 2011.
  • “Calculative Cinema: The Intersecting Histories of Sound, Image, and Computation,” Cinema and Comparative Literature Department Seminar, University of Iowa. February 2011.
  • “Auto-Archive, or the Violence of Autonomous Vision in Harun Farocki's Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1987),” Avant-Doc, University of Iowa, March 2009.
  • “Film, Literature, and Hard-Boiled Poetry: Double Indemnity (1944).” Invited course lecture, The Interpretation of Literature, University of Iowa, April, 2010.
  • “Sound Technology and Its Life in the Image,” Sound Research Seminar, University of Iowa, September 2007.
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cinema studies, media theory, history and theory of technology, deconstruction, phenomenology, new media, sound studies, documentary, media literacy, environmental studies, animation

Manuscript Review
  • Reader, New Review of Film and Television Studies
  • Reader, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture
  • Reader, Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image
  • ​Reader, Radical History Review
Professional Memberships
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
  • Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Proofreading and Copyediting