Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D.

Professor

213.740.8508
lippit@usc.edu
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Akira Mizuta Lippit’s teaching and research focus on four primary areas: the history and theory of cinema; world literature and critical theory; Japanese film and culture; and visual cultural studies. His published work reflects these areas and includes two books, Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife.

He has published widely in international venues, and his work has been translated in French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean and his articles have appeared in scholarly journals of film, literature, and culture, as well as in national and international exhibition and museum catalogues and scholarly anthologies.

Lippit serves regularly on juries at film festivals and for media organizations, and has been active in the film community as an interviewer of independent filmmakers and video artists. He remains deeply involved in the intellectual community of Japan, where he regularly teaches, lectures, and publishes.