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Invited lectures in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, and across the US

Fellowships from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the DFG (German National Science Foundation), and from the University of California, Santa Barbara

Dec 2023 Senior Visiting Researcher, Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)

Fall 2022 Senior Fellow, Zukunftskolleg Institute of Advanced Studies, Konstanz University (Germany)

Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS) funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), fall 2019 and again fall 2021

Visiting Professorships at UNISINOS (São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), and at the Tainan National University of Art (Taiwan), as well as at SciArc (Los Angeles) and at LCAD (Laguna Beach); Research Fellow at Konstanz University, Germany; Visiting Media Theorist at Otis College of Art, LA; Lecturer at Eastern Maximum Security Prison, New York

Appointments

Taught at the University of Minnesota, and at Bard College, before coming to Irvine

Courtesy appointments in the Department of Informatics (Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences), Department of English (School of Humanities), Department of Music (Claire Trevor School of the Arts)

Research Abstract

secret communications and cryptologic history, history of computing and cultural memory, aesthetic communication

Seminars, lectures, and publications (in English and in German) on archives, secrecy, computer games, digital culture, machinima, film title design, media theory, media arts; on W. Benjamin, J. Derrida, S. Freud, A. Warhol, etc

Author of "Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory" (University of Minnesota Press 2004), "Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture" (University of Minnesota Press 2011), and "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (Cambridge: MIT Press 2024); editor of Medium Cool (Duke University Press 2002: special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly) and the Handbook Language-Culture-Communication (Berlin: DeGruyter 2013)

Awards and Honors

Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service, UCI (2011-12)

Short Biography

Born in Switzerland to Austrian parents and raised in Germany - three countries divided by the same language

Publications

Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation. Cambridge: MIT Press 2024

Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (University of Minnesota Press 2011)

Déjà Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

Ed., with L Jäger, W Holly, S Weber, S Heekeren: Handbuch Sprache Kultur Kommunikation De Gruyter 2016 (HSK Handbook Language Culture Communication), 977 pages (print and eBook: see http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/43032)

Co-editor, Medium Cool (Duke University Press, 2002: SAQ 101:3)

Grants

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Leopoldina (Young Academy)

California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

UCI Humanities Center / Vice Chancellor for Research / Critical Theory Institute / International Center for Writing and Translation

University of California Humanities Research Institute

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

German Science Foundation (DFG) Federal Research Fellowship, Theory of Literature and Communication, University of Konstanz

German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD)

Konrad Adenauer Fellowship

International Human Rights Exchange, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS) funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), fall 2019 and again fall 2021

Professional Societies

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

National Communications Association (NCA)

Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften (GfM)

Other Experience

Director, Visual Studies
UC Irvine 2006—2008

Information Technology Committee
SCMS 2006—2008

Chair, Computing Advisory Committee
UCI School of Humanities 2005—2008

Council on Planning and Budget (chair, 08-09)
UC Irvine 2006—2009

Dean's Advisory Group
Humanities, UC Irvine 2005—2007

Space Planning Team
UC Irvine 2006—2009

Humanities Executive Committee (chair, 07-08)
UC Irvine 2006—2009

Academic Planning Group
UC Irvine, 2006-2009, 2012—2015

University Committee on Planning and Budget (chair, 2009-10)
UC Academic Senate, Oakland 2008—2010

Steering Committee
IUCRP (Berkeley) 2008—2009

Budget Work Group
UC Irvine, 2008-2011, 2012—2015

Curatorial Review Board
Beall Center for Art and Technology 2006—2013

Academic Council
UCOP, 2009-2010, 2013—2014

Academic Council Special Committee on Lab Issues
UC National Laboratories 2009—2010

Strategic Planning Design Team - Financial Foundation and Infrastructure
UCI School of Medicine and Medical Center 2010

Task Force on Curricular and Programmatic Alternatives
UC Irvine 2009—2010

Task Force on Extramural Revenue Initiatives
UC Irvine 2009—2010

Gould Commission on the Future of the UC
Funding Strategies Work Group 2009—2010

Chair-Elect & Chair
Academic Senate, UC Irvine Division 2012—2014

Budget Model Review Committee
UCI 2013—2014

Trustee
UCI Foundation 2013—2014

Member
California Open Educational Resources Council 2013—2018

Chair
Film & Media Studies 2012—2019

Professor Visitante, Cièncias da Comunicaçao
UNISINOS, Sâo Leopoldo (Brazil) Mar—2020

Committee on Scholarly Honors & Awards (SHA)
UC Irvine 2020—2023

Research Centers

UC MRG "Transliteracies" (http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu)

Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games (https://ivecg.uci.edu)

Link to this profile
https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5102

Last updated
03/29/2024

Peter O Krapp