Matt Tierney

Professional Bio

I teach and write digital and media studies with reference to cultural histories of the US Left and critical theories of technology and technologism.

I've published two books—Dismantlings: Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies and What Lies Between: Void Aesthetics and Postwar Post-Politics —and my other writing appears in such journals as diacritics, Configurations, Cultural Critique, Camera Obscura, and Postmodern Culture, for which I co-edited a special issue on the topic of "Medium and Mediation." Considered praise of Dismantlings appears in American Literary History, in boundary 2 , and in The Year's Work in English Studies; and of What Lies Between in American Literature.

I teach graduate seminars like "Cultural Critique and High-Tech Capitalism," "Race, Gender, Medium," "Technoculture and Literary Politics," "Media/Culture," and "Reading Film." My undergraduate teaching ranges more widely, from human rights in digital society to science fiction, community studies, and film poetics. In recent years I've been interviewed on the topic of literature and technology with Public Books and on critical cyberculture with our Digital Culture and Media Initiative, which I now direct.