Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
Marina Hassapopoulou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, and has served as Associate Co-Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program during AY2018-19, at Tisch School of the Arts. She has published articles and book chapters on topics including interactive cinema, digital spectatorship, border cinemas and migration, experimental and Hollywood production, fandom, representations of Hellenism in U.S. media, hybrid pedagogy, expanded television, and digital humanities. She teaches film studies, theory/philosophy, digital media, European cinema, digital humanities, cultural studies and theory-practice courses. Working on a range of media besides print, her projects include cultural videos for the University of Oregon’s folklore archives, multimedia scholarship, as well as online open-access collaborative initiatives. She is currently working on her book, Interactive Cinema: The Ethics of Participation and Collectivity in the Era of (Dis)Connection, which focuses on cross-cultural participatory multimedia experiments in the history of cinema and develops new sociopolitical frameworks for spectatorship in the digital age. She is also working on a number of digital humanities and mixed media projects on topics including local activism, collaborative remix, border cinemas, and experimental pedagogy.