Luka Arsenjuk

Luka Arsenjuk completed his PhD in Literature at Duke University (2010) and works as associate professor of cinema and media studies and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Movement, Action, Image, Montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and has written essays on cinema, philosophy, political theory, and the relationship between politics and art. In 2018, he won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Award for Best Essay in an Edited Collection for his essay “to speak, to hold, to live by the image: Notes in the Margins of the New Videographic Tendency” (in The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia). His next book is entitled The Heist Project and will be published by Northwestern University Press. He serves as one of the editors for Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

Recent Publications

“Between History and the Discord of Time: The Figure of the Migrant in A Seventh Man and Transit,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Migration, eds. Corina Stan and Charlotte Sussman (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), 61–75.

“The Problem of Political Art: Notes on Red Aesthetics” NONSITE Issue #41 (Fall 2022).

“The Audio-Visual Nonrelation and the Digital Break” in The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, ed. Kyle Stevens (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 359–375.

“Zametki ko vseobshchei istorii kino i dialektika eizenshteinovskogo obraza [The Notes for a General History of Cinema and the Dialectic of the Eisensteinian Image],” in Eizenshtein dlia XXIogo veka [Eisenstein for the 21st Century], ed. Naum Kleiman (Moscow: Garage, 2020), 44–55.

Teaching (a selection of frequently taught courses)

CINE302 Cinema History II: The Sound Era
CINE319C Images of Revolt: Strike, Riot, Uprising (co-taught with Dr. Mauro Resmini)
CINE342 Film Comedy
CINE369P Paranoia and Conspiracy Narrative in Contemporary Cinema
CINE419A The Essay Form Across Media
CINE419V Videographic Essay in Theory and Practice
CINE459A The Heist Film
CINE469G Cinema in the History of Media
CINE469W Cinema and Work