Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. She is the author of Unmaking Fascist Aesthetics (Minnesota UP, 2001), Mythopoetic Cinema (Columbia UP, 2017), Digital Uncanny (Oxford UP, 2019), and is currently completing a co-authored book with Martine Beugnet, The Trouble with Ghosts (forthcoming Oxford UP).

She has published extensively on European and Eastern European film, questions of nationalism, representations of violence, sexuality, and trauma, digital technologies, social media and surveillance, artists who work with surveillance technologies such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Bill Viola, and Simon Biggs, dispersed techno-human encounters, theories of affect, dance and ownership, and the technological unconscious.

Her articles have appeared in journals such as, Theory, Culture & Society, Screen, Representations, Third Text, Body & Society, Camera Obscura, Differences, Film-Philosophy, and The International Journal of Cultural Property. She is also the recipient of the Mellon-Sawyer on Surveillance and Democracy (2015-2016), and the Mellon Research Initiative Grant in the Humanities for Digital Culture (2012-2016).

Publications

Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, and Martine Beugnet, The Trouble with Ghosts: Film, Television, and Other Spectral Media (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, Digital Uncanny (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017) )
Ravetto, Kriss, The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) )
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, “Spectral Forensics: The Haunted Spaces of Gina Kim’s VR-Film Trilogy,” Differences, 36.1, May 2025)
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, “Dancing With and Within the Digital Domain,” Body & Society, Vol. 27, no. 2 (2021): 3-31)
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, “Whose Dance is it Anyway?: Property, Copyright and the Commons,” Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 38, no. 1 (2021): 101-126)
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, “Noli Me Tangere: Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma and the Image of the Holocaust” for Wiley Companion to Godard, Tom Conley and Thomas Kline, eds., (2014): 456-487)
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, “Vertigo and the Vertiginous History of Film Theory,” Camera Obscura Vol. 25, no. 3, 75 (2011): 100-140. Reprinted in The Routledge Alfred Hitchcock Reader, ed. by Neil Badmington (Routledge, 2014), chapter 79, vol. 4)
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, “Laughing into the Abyss: Representing Balkanization in Post-Soviet Cinema,” Screen, Vol. 44, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 445-464. Revised and reprinted in A Companion to East European Cinemas, Wiley-Blackwell Press, Aniko Imre, ed. (2012): 77-100. Translated into Serbo-Croatian and published in ìñtèrkùltùràlnòst, časopis za podsticanje i afirmaciju interkulturalne komunikacije / oktobar 2015 / br. 10: 107-127. )

Awards

2024. Collegium Helveticum (sponsored by ETZ, UZH, and ZHdK), Invited Senior Fellow, Zurich, Switzerland
2024-5 “Innovation Award,” TFT Dean’s Research Fund Award
2016-2017.  Faculty Research Fellowship, Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis
• 2016.  Faculty Research Fellowship, Paris 7 Diderot, October-December
• 2015-2016.  Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on “Surveillance Democracies?” (PI).
• 2013-2016.  Senior researcher in the “Interdisciplinary Frontiers in the Humanities and the Arts,” UC Davis.
2012-2016. Co-PI for Mellon Research Initiative Grant in the Humanities for Digital Culture
2012-2018.  Senior researcher in the IMMERSE network project (The Research Network for Video Game, and Immersion), funded by The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2024. Education

PhD, Comparative Literature and Film and Television, UCLA
MA, Comparative Literature, UCLA