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Homay King

Professor of History of Art and the Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Humanities
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Department/Subdepartment: 
Visual Culture
Film Studies
History of Art
Email: 
hking [at] brynmawr.edu
Phone: 
610-526-5397
Building: 
Old Library
Room: 
249
On leave: 
semester II
Office Hours: 
remote by appointment

Degrees/Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Focus:

Film, contemporary art, digital media, and theory

Detailed Biography:

Homay King is Professor and Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is a co-founder of Bryn Mawr’s Program in Film Studies. She is the author of two books: Virtual Memory: Time-based Art and the Dream of Digitality (Duke UP, 2015), which won the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award of Distinction from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier (Duke UP, 2010), which provided inspiration for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. Her work on film, digital media, contemporary art, and theory has appeared in Afterall, Discourse, Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, October, and collections including the exhibition catalogs for China: Through the Looking Glass and Myths of the Marble (Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art). She was featured in a video essay for the Criterion Collection’s edition of Shanghai Express. She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective.

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