Justin Horton

Curriculum Vitae
Georgia State University Department of Communication The Program in Moving Image Studies Education Ph.D. Georgia State University: Atlanta, Georgia (Anticipated Defense: April 2015) Moving Image Studies Committee: Jennifer M. Barker (chair), Angelo Restivo, Greg M. Smith Research areas: Film-Philosophy, Embodiment, Sound Studies, Film Realism Georgia State University: Atlanta, Georgia (August 2010) Moving Image Studies Thesis: The Flow of the Water: Contemporary American Realisms Committee: Angelo Restivo (chair), Jennifer M. Barker, Ted Friedman University of Georgia: Athens, Georgia (May 2002) Major: Journalism (video production emphasis) Certificate: Film Studies Email: justinbhorton@gmail.com Web: justinhorton.net Phone: (770) 366-5808

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Peer-reviewed Publications The Unheard Voice in the Sound Film, Cinema Journal 52, no. 4 (2013): 324. *Winner of the 2012 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Student Writing Award* Mental Landscapes: Bazin, Deleuze, and Neorealism (Then and Now), Cinema Journal 52, no. 2 (2013): 2345. The Sound of Uncertain Voices: Mumblecore and the Interrogation of Realism, Cinephile 7, no. 2 (2011): 2329. Web Publications Spells of Speech and Silence: Sound and Voice(-out) in Hush. Cinema Journals Afterthoughts and Postscripts (2013). http://www.cmstudies.org/?CJ_after524_horton Conference Presentations Vibration, Resonance, Deformation: Deleuzes Soundful Aesthetics. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, March 2014. (accepted) Respondent to panel on Resonance. Rendering (the) Visible II, Georgia State University, February 2014.

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Disembodiment and Ecstatic Perception in The Tree of Life. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, March 2013. Ekstasis: Autoscopy and Malicks The Tree of Life. Film and Philosophy Conference, University of Florida, February 2013. Pasolini, Deleuze and The Cinema of Poetry. South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, November 2011. The Unheard Voice in the Sound Film. Music & the Moving Image VI Conference, New York University, May 2011. The Limits of Vision: Sound and Subjectivity in Gus Van Sants Paranoid Park. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, March 2011. What Do You See?: Bazin, Deleuze, and David Gordon Greens George Washington. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2010. Southern (and Other) Accents: Rahmin Bahranis Goodbye Solo. South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, November 2009. Diamonds on a Jewelers Felt: Irony, Sincerity, and Mumblecore. National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, April 2009. Teaching Experience 2008-present Georgia State University As Course Designer/Instructor of Record FILM 4780: Puzzle Films and Complex Narratives (x1) Upper-level course on narrative and genre theory in contemporary puzzle films Fall 2012 (41 students) As Instructor of Record FILM 1010: Film Aesthetics and Analysis (x4) Introductory course in formal, textual analysis with heavy writing emphasis Spring 2010 (2 sections of 36 students); Summer 2011 (26 students); Fall 2011 (40 students) FILM 2700: History of Motion Pictures (x8) General elective survey of film history from late 19th century to the present Fall 2009 (2 sections of 30 students); Spring 2009 (2 sections of 30 students); Fall 2010 (35 students); Spring 2011 (113 students); Fall 2011 (34 students); Fall 2012 (120 students) SPEECH 1000: Introduction to Human Communication (x2) Verbal, non-verbal, interpersonal, organizational, intercultural communication and basic public address Summer 2010 (25 students); Fall 2010 (35 students)
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As Graduate Teaching Assistant FILM 2700: History of Motion Pictures (x4) Break-out section discussion leader Fall 2008 (2 sections of 30 students); Spring 2009 (2 sections of 30 students) 2011 The Academy at Harvard Square Suwanee, Georgia Tutor (Reading, English, SAT) for international students, grades 4-12

Digital Humanities Projects 2013 Collaborator, The ATLmaps Project The ATLmaps project combines archival maps, data visualization, and user contributed multimedia in a novel geospatial platform to promote investigation into any number of issues about Atlanta. As audio editor The Religious Sounds Map Project Interdisciplinary partnership between GSUs New & Emerging Media 2CI Cluster and the Department of Religious Studies to record, archive, and map the sounds of religious eventspersonal and public, formal and informal, planned and spontaneousthat arise in Atlanta's religious diverse communities, often in unexpected places (schools, shopping malls, public spaces) in order to document geographic distributions and migrations of distinct religious communities. As audio editor and researcher The LGBTQ History Project A collaboration between GSUs New & Emerging Media 2CI Cluster and GSUs Special Collections and Archives that combs a significant collection of oral histories on the rise of Atlanta LGBTQ community from the 1960s to the present. Testimonies are cross-referenced with archival materials in order to map the varied public and private spaces, many of which no longer exist, that were instrumental in turning conservative Atlanta into one of Americas gayest cities.

Awards & Recognition 2012

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Student Writing Award, 1st Place ($500) GSU Department of Communication Outstanding Academic Achievement in Graduate Studies

Scholarships & Grants 20132014 20122013 GSU Second Century Initiative New & Emerging Media Fellowship ($22,000) GSU Second Century Initiative New & Emerging Media Fellowship ($22,000)
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2011, 2012 20092012 20082009 Media Appearances 2013 Service 2014

GSU Communication Graduate Student Association Travel Grant ($200) GSU Department of Communication Graduate Assistantship ($15,000) GSU Department of Communication Graduate Assistantship ($9,000)

Horton, Justin. Interviewed by Michael Kackman. Cinema Journal Presents Aca-Media, audio podcast, March 31, 2013. http://www.aca-media.org/ep-3-longer-than-some-marriages Conference reporter (invited) for Cinema Journal, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, March 2014 Invited panelist, Advice from Seasoned Graduate Students, GSU Communication Graduate Student Association (CGSA) Professional Development Seminar, February 2014 Judge, Georgia Independent School Association Region 1AAA Spring Literary Competition, Holy Springs Preparatory School, February 2014

2013 20112012 2011

Presenter, GSU Recruitment Event: Writing and Mentoring Secretary, GSU Communication Graduate Student Association Co-organizer, Rendering the Visible Conference A two-day international conference on the digital turn organized by Georgia State Universitys Program in Moving Image Studies and featuring keynotes by Vivian Sobchack and Akira Lippit; and a film screening and Q&A with experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon. Mentor to incoming graduate students teaching their first courses

2010

Book Manuscript Colloquium with Dudley Andrew & Natasa Durovicov A two-day workshop on Andrews in-progress book on transnational cinema.

Research 20092012 Spring 2008 Research Assistant Dr. Jennifer M. Barker Research Assistant Dr. Jaye Atkinson

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Academic Affiliations 2008present Society for Cinema & Media Studies Member, Sound Studies Special Interest Group Member, Contemporary Theory Special Interest Group Member, Graduate Student Organization South Atlantic Modern Language Association

2009present Technical Skills

16mm and digital video production; Final Cut Pro; Wordpress

Updated February 2014

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