Kristopher L. Cannon

Kristopher L. Cannon serves as a Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, specializing in the intersection of new media technologies, visual culture, and queerness through theoretical frameworks of digitality and phenomenology.

Education:

• PhD in Moving Image Studies, Georgia State University (completed August 2013)

Dr. Cannon's research interrogates how mediated objects refigure bodily and ontological visibility through aesthetics of failure, employing queer theory and object-oriented ontology. His seminal dissertation "Oblique Optics: Seeing the Queerness of Ec-Static Images" pioneered oblique methodologies for analyzing visual culture beyond surface-level representation.

Current work expands into digital bodies, sonic visibility, and non-human ontologies, maintaining consistent focus on failure aesthetics across media studies, queer theory, and technology. His publications span interdisciplinary journals including Spectator, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Deleuze Studies, alongside the edited collection Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media.

Scientific awards: None documented in source materials.

Advising and grants: Source texts indicate active PhD/Master's student mentorship through courses like MSCR3700: Queer Media, though specific advisee names and grant details remain unreported. Recent public engagement includes August 2024 commentary on Netflix release cycles for Communication Studies.

Labs and teams: No dedicated research laboratories or collaborative teams specified in available documentation.