New In Media Res

Theme: Digital Media and the Auto-biographical Impulse

•  Monday, April 30, 2012 - Dara Persis Murray (Rutgers University) presents: Am I Ugly?: Female Beauty, Digital Media, and the True Me
• Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - Zara Dinnen (Birkbeck, University of London) presents: Pictures of Self-Portraits: Eva and Franco Mattes’ Avatar Portraits 
•  Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - Eric LeMay (Ohio University) presents: Taking Up Montaigne: The Essayist in the Digital Age
•  Thursday, May 3, 2012 - Lyndsey Beutin (University of Pennsylvania) presents: “I’m so angry that I made a sign”: Selfhood and Media Reflexivity in Occupy Protest Signs 
•  Friday, May 4, 2012 - Daniel C. Faltesek (University of Iowa) presents: An Autobiography of an Autobiographic Medium