James Hay

Associate Professor
Joint appointments in Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Unit for Cinema Studies

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Research Interests: Studies of media, culture, society, and power with special attention to the cinematic, the televisual, and “new media”.

Current Research: Professor Hay's current projects consider the relation of media and social space (e.g., the home, “public/private” spheres, the city, national and international territories) and engage the recent convergence of media studies, cultural studies, social theory, and critical studies of social space (e.g., from architecture, urban studies, and geography). He is currently completing a book-length study about the role of media and other technologies in governing social space in the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century. The book is intended to be a critique of neo-liberalism in the U. S.

Representative Recent Publications:

Hay, J. (2000). Shamrock: Houston’s Green Promise. In M. Sheil & T. Fitzmaurice (Eds.), Cinema and Urban Societies. London: Blackwell.

Hay, J. (2000). Unaided virtues: The (neo-) liberalization of the domestic sphere. Television and New Media, 1.

Hay, J. (2000). Locating the convergence of television and cinema in the U.S. In G. Brunetta (Ed.), Storia del Cinema/History of the Cinema: Vol. 2. Torina: Eindaudi.

Hay, J. (2001). Placing cinema, fascism, and the nation in a diagram of Italian modernity. In J. Reich (Ed.), Re-viewing Fascism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Hay, J. (in press). Locating the televisual, Television and New Media.