Anthony Stagliano, Ph.D

Anthony Stagliano, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

English

Boca Raton Campus

Anthony Stagliano is a scholar of rhetoric and a film and media artist, whose academic and creative research concerns the relationships between technology and our lived being. His films and videos have been shown in festivals and galleries around the world. His feature narrative film, Fade, was released theatrically, on DVD, and on streaming platforms. His scholarship has appeared in聽Computers and Composition聽as well as the edited collections聽Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life聽and聽Rhetorical Machines.

His current research project includes a monograph and related artistic interventions. The monograph, titled聽Disobedient Mediations, examines creative acts of civil disobedience that emerge in response to new, digital tools of control鈥攆or instance, ubiquitous security cameras, consumer and police use of DNA testing kits, biometric scanning鈥攁ctivities that disobey, by hacking, subverting, or otherwise thwarting governmental and commercial efforts to exploit the interface of our bodies and networked technologies.

More about his work can be found at:聽.

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