Luka Arsenjuk
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
arsenjuk@umd.edu
4124 Jiménez Hall
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Education
Ph.D., Program in Literature, Duke University (2010)
B.A., Cultural Studies, University of Ljubljana (2002)
Research Expertise
Critical Theory
Film studies
Media Studies
Luka Arsenjuk is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies 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). He is currently working on a book about the heist film genre, tentatively titled The Heist Project. He serves as one of the editors for Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.
Courses
CINE302
Cinema History II: The Sound Era
CINE342
Film Comedy
CINE369C
Images of Revolt: Strike, Riot, Uprising (co-taught with Dr. Mauro Resmini)
CINE369P
Paranoia and Conspiracy Narrative in Contemporary Cinema
CINE459A
The Heist Film
CINE469G
Cinema in the History of Media