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PhD. Comparative Arts
Ohio University, 1972
Silvio Gaggi is Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Humanities and American Studies. He teaches courses dealing with various aspects of modern and postmodern culture, including courses focusing on film, film and music, technology and culture, and cultural theory. He has published articles dealing with the various arts of the twentieth century (painting, film, literature, and theater) in numerous journals. Modern/Postmodern, A Study in Twentieth Century Arts and Ideas was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1989, and From Text to Hypertext, Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media was published by Penn in 1997.
“Sculpture, Theater and Art Performance: Notes on the Convergence of the Arts,” Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology, 19, 1 (1986), 45-52.
“The Tie that Binds: Arnolfini’s Wedding and Ideology,” Word & Image, A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 8, 3 (October-December 1992), 344-350.
“The Body and Its Limits: Spilling the Paint, Spilling the Guts, and Other Messy Transgressions,” Degrés, Revue de synthPse B orientation sémiologique. 28 no. 101 (spring 2000), c2-c24.
“The Cyborg and the Net: Figures of the Technological Subject,” in Adrift in the Technological Matrix, ed. David Erben, Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2003. A special hardcover edition of Bucknell Review 46 no. 2, 125-139.
“Navigating Chaos.” New Punk Cinema, ed. Nicholas Rombes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
“The Visual, the Verbal, and Beyond: Marcel Duchamp and the Large Glass,” forthcoming, in a special issue of Symbolism, ed. Daniela Carpi.
Modern/Postmodern: A Study in Twentieth Century Arts and Ideas. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989 (hardcover). Reprinted in paperback, 1991 and 1992.
From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, The Visual Arts, and Electronic Media. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 (hardcover). Reprinted in paperback, 1998.
“Coppola’s Lesson From Las Vegas: One from the Heart and the Hyperreal,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 26, 1994.
“The Magus: Hyperspace, Hypertext, and Virtual Reality,” read at A Symposium on the Writings of John Fowles, Lyme Regis England, July 10-12, 1996.
“From Heroic Cyborg to Cybernetic Couch Potato, Speculations on the Possibility of a (Human) Future. Invited speaker. Conference on Media Studies and Literature, Macon State College, April 5-6, 2001.
“From Cyborg to AI, Prospects for a Disembodied Future,” Intermedialities: 26th Annual Conference, International Association For Philosophy and Literature, University of Rotterdam, Netherlands. June 3-8, 2002.
“Bertolucci’s Last Tango: Modernism’s Last Gasp,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference at University of Louisville, February 26-28, 2004.
“Navigating Chaos: Constructive Intervention in Amelie,” Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture Conference at the University of Louisville, February 24-26, 2005.
“Lip-synching Pain: ‘Crying’ with David Lynch, Rebekah del Rio, and Roy Orbison,” Twentieth Century Literature & Culture Conference, University of Louisville, February 23-25, 2006.