William Uricchio
| William Uricchio | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
| Education | MA and Ph.D., Cinema Studies |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Occupation | University Professor |
| Years active | 1982-present |
| Employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Utrecht University |
| Title | Professor of Comparative Media Studies (MIT), Professor of Comparative Media History (Utrecht University) |
| Awards | The Berlin Prize; Guggenheim, Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Awards |
William Charles Uricchio is an American media scholar and Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Together with Henry Jenkins, he helped to build and direct MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. Uricchio was Principal Investigator of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and continues in that role with its successor, the MIT Game Lab. He is founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab. He is also (co-)author or (co-)editor of several books including We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identity; Media Cultures; Die Anfänge des deutschen Fernsehens: Kritische Annäherungen an die Entwicklung bis 1945; Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films; The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media; and Many More Lives of the Batman. Uricchio is series editor (along with Jesper Juul and Geoff Long) of the MIT Press Playful Thinking Series on game related topics.
Uricchio earned his MA and Ph.D. degrees in cinema studies from New York University. His subsequent work was supported by Guggenheim, Alexander von Humboldt, and Fulbright fellowships, The Berlin Prize, and a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
He was Bonnier Visiting Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication at Stockholm University; DREAM Visiting Professor in Denmark; and visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (American Studies); The University of Science and Technology of China (Communications); Philipps-Universität Marburg (Medienwissenschaft); and Stockholm University (Television Studies).
Uricchio researches and develops histories of "old" media when they were new. His work explores how media technologies and cultural behaviors interact and how they are used for purposes of representation, indication, the formation of publics, and power. He uses historical precedent to anticipate the behaviors of the new, and draws upon the new to reveal long overlooked patterns in the historical past.
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