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Scott Selberg

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Scott Selberg
Assistant Professor


Renshaw Hall 205

503-883-2478

sselberg@linfield.edu

Scott Selberg teaches courses in media studies, with a focus on history, theory and critique. He is particularly invested in interdisciplinary thinking, exploring how the tools of media studies can enrich study across the sciences and the humanities. Courses he teaches at Linfield include:

  • JAMS 150: Living in a Media World
  • JAMS 230: Media, Theory and Criticism
  • JAMS 327: Intro to Film 
  • JAMS 339: Media, Communication and Health
  • JAMS 360: Advertising and Society
  • JAMS 360: Film Genres
  • INQS 125: Selfies and Social Media

Dr. Selberg's research interests lie at the intersection of media, technology, heath, and science. He is the author of "Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood," published in 2022 by the University of Minnesota Press. He has also has published articles in journals such as American Quarterly and Medical Anthropology Quarterly, as well as in an edited collection titled Popularizing Dementia.

He joined Linfield University after serving on the faculties of Portland State University and the University of Arizona. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan.

Education

  • B.A., Art History, Williams College
  • M.A., Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Ph.D., Media, Culture and Communication, New York University

Academic interests

  • Media studies
  • Science technology and society
  • Health and medicine
  • Cultural studies
  • Film and television
  • Disability
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Media literacy

Publications

Mediating Alzheimer’s: Cognition and Personhood in America. University of Minnesota Press. 2022.

Rhinestone Cowboy: Alzheimer’s, Celebrity, and the Collusions of Self. American Quarterly 69, 4 (2017): 883-901.

Modern Art as Public Care: Alzheimer’s and the Aesthetics of Universal Personhood. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29, 4 (2015): 473-491.

Dementia on the Canvas: Art and the Biopolitics of Creativity. In Popularizing Dementia: Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness. Edited by Mark Schweda & Aagje Swinnen, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.