Jeff Scheible received a PhD and MA in Film and Media Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara and a BA in Film and Media Studies from Swarthmore College. He previously taught at SUNY Purchase (New York) and before that was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University (Montreal).

Much of his research is located on cinema’s boundaries, considering its relationship to other media, forms of textuality, and cultural practices. His first book, Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation (2015), examines how punctuation and typographical marks have been redefined and have become increasingly ubiquitous across visual culture and everyday life since the emergence of networked computing. It received the Media Ecology Association’s Susanne K. Langer Award. His co-edited collection with Karen Redrobe, Deep Mediations, explores concepts of “depth” and deepness in cinema and media studies. In 2022, it received the Best Edited Collected Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

His writing has appeared in Feminist Media Histories, World Records, Film Quarterly, American Literature, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, and many other journals and books.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Contemporary cinema and visual culture
• Film theory
• Media history and aesthetics
• Documentary and experimental film
• Race, sexuality, and US popular culture