Roger Beebe
Associate Professor
Roger Beebe received a BA from Amherst College in 1993 and a PhD from the Literature Program at Duke University in 2000. He has also studied at the University of Grenoble, the University of California at Berkeley, and the École Normale Superieure.
His essay “After Arnold: Narratives of the Posthuman Cinema” appears in the collection Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). He is also a contributor to and one of the editors of the collections Rock over the Edge: Transformations of Popular Music Culture (Duke University Press, 2002) and Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cell Phones (Duke University Press, 2007).
In addition to his scholarship, Beebe is also an award-winning experimental filmmaker and film programmer. From 1998–2000 he ran Flicker, a bi-monthly festival of short films based in Chapel Hill, and is currently the artistic director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival. His films and videos have screened on 5 continents (including Antarctica). They have also played on the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, at the Museum of Modern Art, and at Anthology Film Archives as well as at hundreds of festivals including Rotterdam, Sundance, the European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), New York Underground, and Ann Arbor.
He is currently working on a series of biographical films based loosely on Pierre Abélard’s Historia Calamitatum as well as a trilogy of sequels to his “Strip Mall Trilogy” and scholarly projects on the Hollywood blockbuster and on race and postmodernism.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4410
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 245
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <rogerbb@english.ufl.edu>