Biography

Scott Kushner’s research focuses on cultural infrastructures—the physical, institutional, and conceptual equipment that mediates interactions, culture, and society. He is currently working on a book entitled Enclosing Performance: How Venues Mediate Culture, which shows how theaters, music halls, and stadiums structure the encounter with spectacle and challenges our usual notions of what counts as media. Other projects explore topics including lurking in social media, streaming music, and freelance labor markets.

At URI, Kushner regularly offers courses in media, culture, and theory. Before coming to URI, he worked at McGill University. He has previously taught at Rutgers and Duke, and he spent part of a sabbatical year as Investigador invitado at the Universidad de Puerto Rico—Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez.