Scott Nygren
Associate Professor
Scott Nygren received
his BA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968 and his PhD
from SUNY-Buffalo in 1982. He joined the Film and Media Studies Program
at UF in 1990, after previously initiating a film education program at the
Museum of Modern Art, heading the film program at the University of Toledo,
co-founding and directing a Media Arts Center in northwest Ohio, and teaching
at Ithaca College. He has lived in Japan and in Paris for extended periods
of research.
Professor Nygren has published numerous articles on cultural theory and film, as well as producing his own video art tapes and installations. He is the author of Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press.
At UF, he has introduced graduate seminars on Lyotard and Deleuze, and undergraduate courses in video production, documentary film, avant-garde film and Asian film, into the Film and Media Studies program, as well as teaching film history and theory. He has designed a new and experimental course called “Post-History and Visual Culture,” to consider the representation of networked histories in a postmodern and postcolonial context through visual media.
Professor Nygren is program coordinator for the Interdisciplinary (IDS) Film and Media Studies major. He is a member of the Faculty Senate, the Senate Policy Council on Academic Infrastructure and Support, and the CLAS International Committee. In recent years, he has taught in UF programs in Florence, Italy and at Aix-en-Provence and the Paris Research Center in France. He continues to research film in an inter-cultural context and the production of digital video in a networked environment.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4309
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 247
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <nygren@ufl.edu>