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Dienst, Richard

  • Richard Dienst
  • Richard Dienst
  • Professor of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1999
  • Retired Since: 2022
  • rdnst@rutgers.edu
  • Office: 43 Mine Street, Room 102, College Ave Campus
  • Office Hours:

    Please contact me to schedule a meeting.

  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
  • Field of Interest: Theory
  • About:

    Professor Dienst is the author of:

    — Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television (Duke University Press, 1994), an account of television from the perspectives of cultural studies, Marxist political economy, Heidegger's philosophy, Derrida's deconstruction, and Deleuze's cinema theory.

    — The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good (Verso Books, 2011), an analysis of indebtedness as a fundamental condition of contemporary social, political, and economic life.

    — Seeing from Scratch: 15 Lessons with Godard (Caboose Books, 2020), an exploration of visual pedagogy based on the work of Jean-Luc Godard.

    He is also the co-editor (with Henry Schwarz) of Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (Westview Press, 1996), a collection of essays on cultural politics in an era of globalization.

    He has published a series of essays on contemporary theory, visual media, and political discourse in a variety of journal and anthologies.

    Occasional pieces can found on two blogs: 

    http://bondsofdebt.wordpress.com/ 

    http://thinkingthroughimages.wordpress.com/

     

  • Book(s):

    Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies

    Seeing from Scratch

    Still Life in Real Time: Theory after Television

    The Bonds of Debt
  • Undergraduate Courses Taught:
    • History of Literary Theory (Parts 1 and 2)
    • Literary and Scientific Writings
    • Theories of Text and Image
    • Utopia
    • Thinking as a Way of Life
    • Science Fiction
    • Introduction to Crime Fiction
  • Awards:

    2020: Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching

    2015: SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education

  • Other Publications:
      • "Debt and Utopia"
      • https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3401-debt-and-utopia
  • Education: PhD, Duke UniversityBA, University of California, Berkeley

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