Film Media Program

Keith Wagner, MPhil

Email: keith_wagner@mail.uri.edu
Office hours: by appt.

Keith B. Wagner joined the faculty in 2007 and teaches courses on world cinema, introduction to film and cinematic auteurs. His research interests lie in the political economy of world cinemas from China, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Balkans; deployment of historical materialism and postcolonial theory in film studies; British and American film and photography. He also specializes in the intersection of cinema with the processes of contemporary cosmopolitanism in First and Third World cultures. Currently he is preparing for publication an essay on Sixth Generation Chinese cinema titled “Wu Wenguang and the New Documentary Movement in China: Cosmopolitanism, World Cinema, and Peripheral Identity from 1990s Beijing.” He has organized symposiums on photography and film at Durham and Cambridge and is co-organizing a two-day conference on Cosmopolitanism and World Cinema at the University of Manchester this June. Before coming to URI, he worked as an Adjunct Instructor of art history at Albertus Magnus College in 2001-02. He earned his M.Phil in Screen Media and Cultures from the University of Cambridge, England in 2007. He also holds an M.A. in the Photographic Image/Visual Culture from the University of Durham, England (2006). Before moving to the UK, he received his undergraduate education at Fairfield and Yale.