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Michael Litwack is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Film Studies at the University of Alberta (Treaty 6 and Métis Nation Region 4 Territory). He holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University (2018), an MA from Brown, and a BA from Wesleyan. His research bridges race studies, media theory, and technology, focusing on intersections of racial capitalism, media history, and Black intellectual production.
His current projects include the SSHRC-funded 'Mediations of Racial Capitalism' and a forthcoming book, Racial Technics, examining media technologies' roles in Black freedom struggles. Teaching specialties span media theory, critical race studies, and posthumanism, with courses like ENGL 217 (Literary Theory), ENGL 430 (Studies in Theory), and graduate seminars in media theory.
Collaborative research emphasizes Marxist frameworks and settler colonialism, as seen in co-edited volumes such as Jump Cut's 2023 Marxist media studies dossier and PUBLIC's 2019 'Smoke' issue. His work critiques racial humanism and posthumanism through archives of Black cultural production and media-technological histories.
