Shane Denson is Professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History and, by Courtesy, of German Studies and Communication at Stanford University. Since Fall 2022, he is also Director of the PhD Program in Modern Thought & Literature.

He is co-editor, with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, of the book series Sensing Media for Stanford University Press. He serves as Member-at-Large on the Executive Board of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), and from 2021-2024 he was Co-Chair of the Philosophy and Theory SIG in the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).

Prior to coming to Stanford, he held appointments at a number of institutions in the US and Germany. From 2014-2016, he was a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University, where he was a visiting scholar in the Program in Literature, associate in research in the S-1 Speculative Sensation Lab (housed in Computational Media, Arts, & Cultures / Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies), and teaching fellow in Information Science + Information Studies. From 2013-2016, he co-directed the project "Digital Seriality: The Serial Aesthetics and Practice of Digital Games" — part of a research collective on Popular Seriality funded by the German Research Foundation and based at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 2010 to 2016, he was also assistant professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in American Studies at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

He has been awarded a number of research fellowships, including a DFG Mercator Fellowship in the Configurations of Film Graduiertenkolleg at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt (2020), a Faculty Research Fellowship at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University (2020-2021), and a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2019). He serves on the Committee in Charge for the Program in Modern Thought & Literature (MTL), is a Focal Group Member in Philosophy + Literature, and is affiliated with the American Studies Program, the Center for Affective Science, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). He is a core faculty member of the Stanford–Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media, and he serves as the Faculty Coordinator for the Stanford Humanities Center's Research Workshop on Digital Aesthetics: Critical Approaches to Computational Culture, directs the "Intermediations" workshop and lecture series, and co-directs the interdisciplinary theory/arts group "Critical Making Collaborative."

He is the author of three books: Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (Transcript-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2014), Discorrelated Images (Duke University Press, 2020), and Post-Cinematic Bodies (meson press, 2023). He is also co-editor of several collections: Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2013), Digital Seriality (special issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 2014), and Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (REFRAME Books, 2016).

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