Media and Modernity
Overview
The Program in Media and Modernity promotes the interdisciplinary study of the unique cultural formations that came to prominence during the last two centuries, with special attention paid to the interplay between culture and technology. The program centers on architecture, art, film, photography, literature, philosophy, music, history, and all forms of electronic media from radio to video and information technologies. The program draws on the rich human and material resources that exist at Princeton and provides a focus and forum for research and teaching in the spaces, texts, and media of modernity. The program offers a graduate certificate and collaborative teaching, learning, and research opportunities centered on team-taught seminars and cross-disciplinary colloquia.
Students may not gain admission to the University through the Program in Media and Modernity. They may affiliate with the program and earn a certificate from it after having been admitted through a degree-granting department. The certificate does not appear on the official transcript.
Certificate
Ph.D. students may obtain the certificate by fulfilling the following requirements:
1. enrollment in at least two seminars cross-listed with MOD (Media and Modernity);
2. regular attendance at M+M program events held during the semester; and
3. participation in a dissertation colloquium led by the program's directors.
Students qualifying for the certificate should send the following information (in a single document) to mandm@princeton.edu no later than May 1 for awarding of the certificate in that academic year:
a) Full name, department, program, year, expected date of graduation, contact email;
b) Name and contact email of primary advisor;
c) A list of courses fulfilling the qualifications for the Certificate, as listed above. Each of these should include all course numbers under which the class was listed, course titles, instructor names, descriptions (as listed on the Course Offerings website of the University) and the grade option for which each class was taken;
d) Any further information that might be useful and is not covered by the points above.
Faculty
Director
- Beatriz Colomina (co-director)
- Devin A. Fore (co-director)
Executive Committee
- Basile C. Baudez, Art and Archaeology
- Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies
- Beatriz Colomina, Architecture
- Brigid Doherty, German
- Devin A. Fore, German
- Hal Foster, Art and Archaeology
- Rubén Gallo, Spanish & Portuguese
- Sylvia Lavin, Architecture
- Thomas Y. Levin, German
- V. Mitch McEwen, Architecture
- Spyros Papapetros, Architecture
- Rachel L. Price, Spanish & Portuguese
- Gavin Steingo, Music
Associated Faculty
- M. Christine Boyer, Architecture
- Zahid R. Chaudhary, English
- Steven Chung, East Asian Studies
- Angela N. Creager, History
- Rachael Z. DeLue, Art and Archaeology
- Elizabeth Diller, Architecture
- Diana J. Fuss, English
- Mario I. Gandelsonas, Architecture
- Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature
- Brooke A. Holmes, Classics
- Anne McCauley, Art and Archaeology
- Michael Meredith, Architecture
- Mónica Ponce de León, Architecture
- Jesse A. Reiser, Architecture
- Efthymia Rentzou, French & Italian
- Paul E. Starr, Sociology
- Gavin Steingo, Music
- Jeffrey Whetstone, Lewis Center for the Arts
- Carolyn Yerkes, Art and Archaeology
Courses
Permanent Courses
Courses listed below are graduate-level courses that have been approved by the program’s faculty as well as the Curriculum Subcommittee of the Faculty Committee on the Graduate School as permanent course offerings. Permanent courses may be offered by the department or program on an ongoing basis, depending on curricular needs, scheduling requirements, and student interest. Not listed below are undergraduate courses and one-time-only graduate courses, which may be found for a specific term through the Registrar’s website. Also not listed are graduate-level independent reading and research courses, which may be approved by the Graduate School for individual students.