This event aimed to foster a community of colleagues engaged in effective teaching and learning on our campus and present model cases of educators experimenting with a diverse range of teaching and learning strategies in UC Berkeley classrooms. This year's theme was “Inclusive Teaching is Effective Teaching: Sharing Inclusive Teaching Strategies to Advance Equity.”
Keynote Speaker
Abigail De Kosnik has been named this year's Teaching & Learning Conference Keynote Speaker. Dr. De Kosnik is an Associate Professor in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), and an affiliated faculty member of Gender & Women’s Studies, Film & Media, and Folklore. She researches histories and theories of new media, film and television, social media, fan studies, piracy studies, cultural memory, and archive studies. She is particularly interested in how issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and transnationalism intersect with new media studies and performance studies.
De Kosnik’s book Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom(link is external) was published by MIT Press in 2016. She is the co-editor (with Keith Feldman) of the essay collection #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation(link is external) (University of Michigan Press, 2019), and the co-editor, with Sam Ford and C. Lee Harrington, of the edited essay collection “The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era” (University Press of Mississippi, 2011). She has published articles on media fandom, popular digital culture, and performance studies in Third Text, JCMS (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies), The International Journal of Communication, Modern Drama, Transformative Works and Cultures, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Performance Research, and elsewhere. She is the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media. She has won four awards for teaching, advising, and mentoring at UC Berkeley, including the campus’s highest honor for instruction, the Distinguished Teaching Award. She is the Principal Investigator of the Media Education Research Lab (MERL), which evaluates and reviews diverse representatio
n in films and television series, and measures and maps online media piracy.
Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies (home department: Radio/Television/Film), Northwestern University; B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature and M.A. in Humanities/English Literature, Stanford University
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