Benjamin Lazar

English - Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, PhD

Achieved Degrees

  • MA in Cinema Studies, San Francisco State University
  • BA in Media Studies, Film Studies and Philosophy, University of San Francisco

Interests

  • Traumatic experiences and media
  • Media history
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Digital cultures

Conference Presentations

  • "Sitting in the Waiting Room: On the Experiences of Boredom and Waiting with Media” presented at Backward Glances Graduate Conference, Northwestern University, 2024
  • “On Loss of Location: Notes from Three Cinemas” presented at the San Francisco State Graduate Conference: “Relocating Cinema”, San Francisco State University, 2022
  • “‘this time there’s no going back. something big is coming.’ An Examination of the Mourning of Jeffrey Epstein” presented at Creative Activity and Research Day, University of San Francisco, 2020

Academic Awards

  • UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, 2024-25

Teaching Experience

  • English 101: Introduction to College Writing (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
  • Cinema 341: Critical Studies Discussion (San Francisco State University)