Bio

Photo by Dallas Curow
Photo by Dallas Curow

Dr. Andrew deWaard is an Assistant Professor of Media and Popular Culture in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the co-author of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: indie sex, corporate lies and digital videotape (Columbia University Press/Wallflower, 2013). His work has appeared in Fight the Power: The Spike Lee Reader and Habitus of the ’Hood, as well as JCMS: Journal of Cinema of Media Studies, Journal of American Studies, Oxford Bibliographies, Cinephile and IASPM@JournalAndrew is the co-founder of cultcap.org, a research project that studies stewardship models for independent music, and project manager of clipnotes.org, a video annotation app for teaching film. You can follow his work at andrewdewaard.com and @dewaard.