Since the closing 1990s and the publication of Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge MA, 1999; co-authored with Jay David Bolter) Richard Grusin has continued to develop the research fields of media studies and new media studies in particular. Among Grusin’s more recent publications are Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11 (Palgrave Macmillian, 2010) and “Radical Mediation” (in Critical Inquiry 42, 2015). Both are key texts on the concept of mediation that elaborate its extension well beyond its traditional bonds to communication and representation. Grusin’s engagement with 21st century studies is manifested in works such as Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks (Cambridge UP, 2004) and the edited volumes The Nonhuman Turn (University of Minnestota Press, 2015) and Anthropocene Feminism (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). 

Organizers

Christer Johansson, Literature, Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Sonya Petersson, Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics