Education and Visiting Fellowships
BA, Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1989
MA, Social and Political Thought, York University, 1993
PhD, Social and Political Thought, York University, 2000
Postdoc, Social & Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2000-2002
Visiting Fellow, Center for Religion & Media, New York University, 2003-2004
Senior Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, 2017-2018
Areas of research
Media History; Material Religion; Religion & Media; History of Photography; Technology and Culture; Print Culture; Spiritualism, Magic, and the Occult; Science and Technology Studies; History of the Body.
Courses
COMS 800: Doctoral Integrative Seminar (Fall 2022)
Books and Edited Collections
"Enlightening Religion." Special issue of Critical Research on Religion, co-edited by Jeremy Stolow and Birgit Meyer, Vol. 9, No.2 (August 2021).
Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies, co-edited with Ulrike Bergermann, Monika Dommann, and Erhard Schütpelz. Berlin and Chicago: Diaphanes & University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Dec 2020. Details here.
"Light Mediations." Special Issue journal issue co-edited by Jeremy Stolow and Birgit Meyer. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, Vol.16, No.1 (2020). Available here.
“Visible/Invisible: Religion, Media and the Public Sphere,” special journal issue co-edited by Jeremy Stolow and Alexandra Boutros, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol.40, No.1 (January 2015). Details here.
“Animer/Animating,” special journal issue co-edited by Jeremy Stolow and Sébastien Denis, Intermédialités: histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques, no.22 (automne 2013). Details here.
Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between, edited book, New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. Preview the book here.
Orthodox By Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution, University of California Press, 2010. Finalist for the 2010 Nahum Sarna Award of the National Jewish Book Council. Details here.
Articles and Book Chapters
"Some Notes on the Visualization of the Pandemic Body." Religious Matters in an Entangled World: Dossier Corona, May 2020. Available here.
“O Sistema Nervoso Espiritual: Reflexões Sobre um Possível Cabo Magnético Projetado para Comunicação Espiritual.” Debates do NER, Vol. 19, no. 35 (2019): 293–346. Available here.
"Mediumnic Lights, Xx-Rays,and the Spirit Who Photographed Herself". Critical Inquiry, Vol.42, no.4 (July 2016): 923-951. Details here
“Le synthétique sacré. Réflexions sur les aspects matériels des textes juifs orthodoxes.” Terrain, n° 59: L’objet livre, (September 2012): 120-137. Details here.
“Salvation By Electricity”. In Hent de Vries (ed). Religion: Beyond a Concept . New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. Preview the book here.
“Holy Pleather: Materializing Authority in Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Publishing”. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, Vol.3, No.3 (autumn 2007): 314-335. Details here.
“Communicating Authority, Consuming Tradition: Jewish Orthodox Outreach Literature and its Reading Public.” In Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors (eds). Religion, Media and the Public Sphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, pp.73-91. Preview the book here.
“Religion and/as Media”. Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.22, No.4 (August 2005), pp.119-145. Details here.
“Transnationalism and the New Religio-Politics: Reflections on a Jewish Orthodox Case”, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 21, No.2 (April 2004), pp.109-137. Details here.
