Mark J. Williams

Mark J. Williams is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College. He holds academic appointments in the Department of Film and Media Studies and has taught at institutions including USC, Loyola Marymount, and UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on film, television, and new media history and theory, with specialties in world cinema, digital humanities, and media archives.

Williams earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.

His research interests include inter-media studies, media crisis and catastrophe, and visual culture. He has directed projects such as the Leslie Center’s Cyber-Disciplinarity initiative and the Media Ecology Project, which enhance scholarly access to historical media. He co-edits the book series Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture and founded the e-journal Journal of e-Media Studies.

Williams has received grants from the NEH and Knight Foundation for digital media tools like the ACTION toolset and the Semantic Annotation Tool (SAT). His forthcoming book Remote Possibilities: A History of Early Television in Los Angeles is under contract with Duke University Press.