Justin Horton

Curriculum Vitae
Georgia State University | Department of Communication | P. O. Box 5060 | Atlanta, GA 30302
(770) 366-5808 | justinbhorton@gmail.com
EDUCATION
In progress

Ph.D., Georgia State University - Atlanta, Georgia

Department of Communication | Moving Image Studies
Anticipated completion: April 2016

2010

M.A., Georgia State University - Atlanta, Georgia

Department of Communication | Moving Image Studies

2002

A.B.J., University of Georgia - Athens, Georgia

Major: Journalism (video production emphasis) | Certificate: Film Studies

DISSERTATION
In progress

Bodies That Scatter: Sound, Cinema, Figure, and Form

Committee: Jennifer M. Barker (chair), Angelo Restivo, Greg M. Smith,
Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam)
Defense: April 2016

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
2013

The Unheard Voice in the Sound Film, Cinema Journal 52, no. 4 (2013): 324.
(1st Place, 2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Student Writing Competition)

2013

Mental Landscapes: Bazin, Deleuze, and Neorealism (Then and Now), Cinema
Journal 52, no. 2 (2013): 2345.

2011

The Sound of Uncertain Voices: Mumblecore and the Interrogation of Realism,

Cinephile 7, no. 2 (2011): 2329.

BOOK CHAPTERS
2016

The Building and Blurring of Worlds in Complex Narrative Film and Television.
Invited contribution to Transmedia Storyworlds, eds. Marta Boni and Martin Lefebvre.
Amsterdam University Press. (in press)

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
2013

Spells of Speech and Silence: The Voice(-out) in Hush. Cinema Journals

Afterthoughts and Postscripts, 52, no. 4 (2013).

CREATIVE WORK
2012

The Line: A Dirge (found footage, digital video, 4:24) [link]

Director, Editor, Sound

MEDIA APPEARANCES
2013

Cinema Journal Presents, Interviewed by Michael Kackman, Aca-Media

podcast. Episode 3, March 2013.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2012

1st Place, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Student Writing Award - $500
(competitive, 1 awarded)

2012

GSU Department of Communication Outstanding Academic Achievement in

Graduate Studies (competitive, 1 awarded)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2013

Northwestern Universitys Summer Institute on Rhetoric and Public Culture: Film

and Media in the Tracks of Deleuze (competitive, 12 awarded, $250 travel stipend
plus room and board)

2012

Investigator, GSU CITIES Internal Grant Program, ATLmaps ($43,700)as part of

Second Century Initiative New and Emerging Media Cluster

2012

GSU Second Century Initiatives New and Emerging Media Fellowship ($22,500)

2011

GSU Communication Graduate Student Association Travel Grant ($200)

2009-2012

GSU Department of Communication Graduate Assistantship ($15,800)

20082009

GSU Department of Communication Graduate Assistantship ($9,000)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2016

Figural Echoes: On Some Motifs in Lynne Ramsay. Annual Meeting of the

Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2016. (accepted)

2015

Feeling the Body That Is Not There, or, Her as Tuning Fork. Annual Meeting of
the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, Quebec, March 2015.

2015

Graduate Student Teaching: Politics and Practical Advice. (Workshop) Annual

Meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, Quebec, March
2015.

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2014

Reconsidering Formal Analysis. (Roundtable) FLOW Conference, Austin, TX,

September 2014.

2014

Vibration, Resonance, Deformation: Deleuzes Soundfulness. Annual Meeting of

the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2014.

2014

Resonance. (Invited Response) Rendering (the) Visible II, Georgia

State University, Atlanta, GA, February 2014.

2013

Bodies That Scatter. The Northwestern University Summer Institute on Rhetoric

and Public Culture, Evanston, IL, July 2013.

2013

Disembodiment and Ecstatic Perception in The Tree of Life. Annual Meeting of the
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 2013.

2013

Ekstasis: Autoscopy and Malicks The Tree of Life. Film and

Philosophy Conference, University of Florida, February 2013.

2011

Pasolini, Deleuze, and The Cinema of Poetry. Paper presented at the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2011.

2011

The Unheard Voice in the Sound Film. Music and the Moving Image VI
Conference, New York University, May 2011.

2011

The Limits of Vision: Sound and Subjectivity in Gus Van Sants Paranoid Park.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New
Orleans, LA, March 2011.

2010

What Do You See?: Bazin, Deleuze, and David Gordon Greens George
Washington. Annual Meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los
Angeles, CA, March 2010.

2009

Southern (and Other) Accents: Rahmin Bahranis Goodbye Solo. The South Atlantic
Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2009.

2009

Diamonds on a Jewelers Felt: Irony, Sincerity, and Mumblecore. The National

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, New
Orleans, LA, April 2009.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
As Instructor of Record:
FILM 1010: Film Aesthetics and Analysis
FILM 2700: History of Motion Pictures

Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2010 x2

Summer 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2011,
Spring 2010, Fall 2010

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FILM 4780: Puzzle Films and Complex Narratives

SPEECH 1000: Intro to Human Communication

Spring 2012
Fall 2010, Summer 2010

SERVICE
20142015

Judge, Georgia Independent School Association Literary Competition

2014

Article reviewer, Cinema Journal

2014

Contributor, GradHacker, an online collaborative blog for graduate student advice

2014

Cinema Journal online reporter for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies
Conference, March 2014, Seattle, WA (invited)

2013

Presenter, GSU Recruitment Event: Writing and Mentoring

20112012

Secretary, GSU Communication Graduate Student Association

2011

Co-organizer, Rendering (the) Visible Conference

2011

Mentor to incoming graduate students teaching their first courses

2010

Co-organizer, Book Manuscript Colloquium with Dudley Andrew and Natasa

Durovicov

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
2008present Society for Cinema and Media Studies
PRODUCTION SKILLS
16mm and digital video production; sound recording; nonlinear editing; WordPress
REFERENCES
Jennifer M. Barker (Dissertation Chair)
Associate Professor of Moving Image Studies and Graduate Director
Georgia State University
jmbarker@gsu.edu | (404) 413-5793
Donald Crafton
Joseph and Elizabeth Robbe Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre
University of Notre Dame
dcrafton@nd.edu | (574) 631-7054

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Angelo Restivo
Associate Professor of Moving Image Studies
Georgia State University
arestivo@gsu.edu | (404) 413-5626
Greg M. Smith
Professor of Moving Image Studies
Georgia State University
gsmith@gsu.edu | (404) 413-5605
James Roberts (Teaching Reference)
Senior Lecturer
Georgia State University
jhroberts@gsu.edu | (404) 413-5616

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