Bio

Virginia Kuhn serves as associate director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML), and assistant professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Kuhn joined the IML in 2005 after successfully defending one of the first born-digital dissertations in the United States, challenging archiving and copyright conventions and she recently published the first article created in the authoring platform, Scalar, titled “Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate.” Kuhn co-chairs the Special Interest Group on Media Literacy, Outreach, and Activism for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is an assistant editor for the Praxis section of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and serves on the editorial board of PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory. Her work can also be found in Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture, ebr (electronic book review), and Academic Commons.