Oliver Gaycken

Visiting Scholar

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Maryland University

Residence: June 1–June 30, 2013

Profile

Oliver Gaycken is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Temple University. He received his BA in English from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His teaching interests include silent-era cinema history, the history of popular science, and the links between scientific and experimental cinema. He has published on the discovery of the ophthalmoscope, the flourishing of the popular science film in France at the turn of the 1910s, the figure of the supercriminal in Louis Feuillade's serial films, and the surrealist fascination with popular scientific images. He has recently written articles about arguments for an educative cinema at the turn of the twentieth century. His book project is entitled Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and Popular Science.