Faculty

Director

Shane Denson

Professor of Art and Art History and, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Communication

Department:

Art & Art History

Shane Denson is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. His research and teaching interests span a variety of media and historical periods, including phenomenological and media-philosophical approaches to film, digital media, comics, games, and serialized popular forms. He is the author of three books: Post-Cinematic Bodies (2023), Discorrelated Images (2020) and Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (2014). He is also co-editor of several collections: Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives...

denson@stanford.edu

Director of Graduate Studies

Lea Pao

Assistant Professor of German Studies, Chair of Undergraduate Studies, German Studies

2017: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
2013: Mag. Phil., University of Vienna, Austria
2010: Bakk. Phil., University of Vienna, Austria

Lea Pao's research interests include German and Austrian poetry, the history of information and its theories, and graphic narrative theory. Her current book project explores the ways in which ideas about information—and the history of twentieth-century information theory—can shape our thinking about poetry’s social, cultural, and linguistic work, and vice versa.

She is the translator of Q. G. Li’s Tian Shu into German, as Buch des Himmels (Letter P Verlag...

lpao@stanford.edu

Fields of interest

German Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Literary and Cultural Theory, Literary Criticism (history of criticism, theory of literature), Narratology, Poetry and Poetics

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