Kristopher L. Cannon

I am a PhD candidate in Moving Image Studies in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. I am currently working on my dissertation prospectus, titled "Oblique Optics: Visions of Otherness and the Image's Queer Children." My research examines new media, film, and other visual artifacts that lend to various visions, versions and manifestations of bodies. My inquiries about bodies employ various methodologies and theoretical frameworks, but with emphasis on queer theory, critical/cultural theory, visual culture studies and phenomenology.

I am originally from Utah, where I graduated from the University of Utah in Gender Studies. I then studied at Northern Illinois University, where I finished my MA in Communication. Now I find myself living in Georgia, going to school, yet again; but, I love school, I love learning, I love teaching, and my journey thus far merely points to the fact that I'm a masochist. On any given day you might find me sitting and writing at a coffee shop, playing video games, cooking (or watching the Food Network), playing with my dog Gigabyte, or sitting at home playing with a random technological object.

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Education

Ph.D.	Georgia State University, Atlanta, ABD, in progress. Moving Image Studies, Communication. Committee: Alessandra Raengo (Chair), Jennifer Barker, Ted Friedman, Angelo Restivo, and Steven Shaviro.
M.A.	Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, May 2007 Communication; LGBT Studies Certificate. Committee: Robert Alan Brookey (Chair), Kelly Happe, and Betty LaFrance.
B.S.	University of Utah, Salt Lake City, May 2005 Gender Studies. Advisor: Kathryn Bond Stockton.

Recent Publications

• Kristopher L. Cannon. (2010). "Chrysanthi Nigianni and Merl Storr (2009) Deleuze and Queer Theory" [Book Review], Deleuze Studies, 4, pp. 432-436.
• Kristopher L. Cannon. (2010, Fall). "Cutting Race Otherwise: Imagining Michael Jackson." Spectator, 30.2, pp. 28-36.
• Robert Alan Brookey & Kristopher L. Cannon (2009, June). "Sex Lives in Second Life." Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26.2, pp. 145-164.
  • Reprinted (December 2010) in Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez (Eds.), Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader, Third Edition, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp. 571-582.

Recent Conference Papers

• Kristopher L. Cannon (2011, Mar). "How the Digital Imag(in)es Itself: an Inter-face to Unfold Subjects within Stashed Cache." A paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, LA.
• Kristopher L. Cannon (2011, Feb). "Tracing Palpable, Plastic Seams: Surface Layer (Object) Orientations in Hirokazu’s Air Doll (2009)." A paper presented at the Rendering the Visible Conference, Atlanta, GA.
• Kristopher L. Cannon (2010, Oct). "From Picture to Image through Si(gh)tes Un-seen: An Oblique Optic to Illuminate Queer Fetal Photographs." A paper presented at the World Picture Conference, Stillwater, OK.
• Kristopher L. Cannon (2009, Mar). “Cutting Race Otherwise: Michael Jackson and the Fantasy of Trans-Racial Visual Presence.” A paper presented at the National Council of Black Studies, Atlanta, GA.

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Design Work

Rendering the Visible Conference (Georgia State Univ., 02/2011)