William Uricchio | |
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| Education | MA and Ph.D., Cinema Studies |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Occupation | University Professor |
| Years active | 1982-present |
| Employer(s) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Utrecht University |
| Title | Professor of Comparative Media Studies (MIT), Professor of Comparative Media History (Utrecht University) |
| Awards | The Berlin Prize; Guggenheim, Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Awards |
William Charles Uricchio is an American media scholar and Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Together with Henry Jenkins, he helped to build and direct MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. Uricchio was Principal Investigator of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.[1] He is founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab.[2] He is also (co-)author or (co-)editor of several books including We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identity; Media Cultures; Die Anfänge des deutschen Fernsehens: Kritische Annäherungen an die Entwicklung bis 1945; Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films; The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media; and Many More Lives of the Batman. Uricchio is series editor (along with Jesper Juul and Geoff Long) of the MIT Press Playful Thinking Series on game related topics.
- ^ "GAMBIT: Credits: Faculty and Staff". Gambit.mit.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
- ^ "William Uricchio | Principal Investigator | Open Documentary Lab at MIT". Opendoclab.mit.edu. 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2013-09-21.