Erik Marshall

Curriculum Vitae

Erik Marshall

Education

Ph.D. Wayne State University (projected defense date: Fall 2009). Dissertation: Digital Media,
Spectatorship, and Film Studies. Advisor: Robert Burgoyne.
B.A. Wayne State University, 1995. Majors: French, Education. Minor: English.

Teaching Experience

Wayne State University. Adjunct Instructor, 2004-Present
Introduction to Film, Intro to College Writing, Intermediate Composition, American
Studies.
Wayne State University. Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1998-2003.
Introduction to Film, Great Works of World Cinema, Introduction to College Writing,
Basic Writing.
Lawrence Technological University. Adjunct Instructor, Fall-Winter 2007
World Masterpieces of Literature I and II
College for Creative Studies. Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2004
Class Taught: History of Animation.

Other

2001 Instructor, 14-week course for city youths on black film. Funded by Ford Foundation, sponsored
by the Humanities Center, Wayne State University.
1997-8 Teacher. French and English. Imlay City High School, Imlay City, MI.

Teaching Interests

Introduction to Film, History of Film, World Cinema, Animation Studies, Digital Media Studies,
Documentary Film, Film and Literature, World Literature, Visual Culture, Media History, Media
Studies, Cultural Studies.

Publications

“Indexicality And Spectatorship In Digital Media: Waking Life As Hybrid Digital Artifact.”
Revista Ilha do Desterro. No. 51, Jul/Dec 2006.
“The Disappearing Other: The Portrayal of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s
Dracula.” The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination. McFarland
Press, 2004.
Review of Fatal Strategies, Baudrillard. Film Philosophy web journal, vol. 6 no. 44
(http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol6-2002/n44marshall).

Conference Presentations

“The Interactive Networked Spectator: Video Games, Cinema, Machinima.” Society for Cinema
and Media Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 7, 2008.
“Just Kidding: Digital Media and the Rise of Subjective Narration.” Society for Cinema and Media
Studies, Chicago, IL, April 2007.
“Digital Realism and Database Narrative in Waking Life.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies,
London, England, April 2005.
“Moving Words: The Use of Film in Literature.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference,
Louisville, KY, March 2003.
Panel Chair. “High Art,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, March 2003.
Panel Chair, “Dogme 95,” Y/X conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, 2002.
“Belief Construction vs. Historical Fact in Morris’s Mr. Death,” Society for Cinema Studies,
Washington, D.C, May, 2001.

“Portryals of Drug Use in Recent Films,” Y/X conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, March

2001.

Research Interests

Digital media, Documentary Film, Literary Adaptations, Film and Philosophy, Network Theory.

Departmental Service

2001-2 Appointments Committee, Wayne State University
1999-2000 Graduate Committee, Wayne State University

Professional Memberships

Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Modern Language Association.
Foreign Languages
French: proficient speaking and fluent reading abilities.