Biography
Jordan Schonig is Assistant Teaching Professor of Film and Media Studies. He is the author of The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement (Oxford University Press, 2021), and his work has been published in Screen, Discourse, New Review of Film and Television Studies, New Media & Society, and Animation, among other journals and edited volumes.
Schonig’s research examines theoretical problems of film and media studies by pairing the close analysis of films and other media with concepts from phenomenology and philosophical aesthetics. Across a range of media objects—from early cinema to computer-generated animation, social media platforms to internet memes—his work shows how various assumptions and oversights within film and media theory can be made visible through the philosophies of aesthetic and perceptual experience.
Schonig has taught a wide range of courses on topics such as film theory, history, and analysis; digital cinema aesthetics; genre and cinema; and gender, sexuality, and cinema.