Tim Seiber Ph.D.
Professor
Johnston Center for Integrative Studies
About
Tim Seiber works primarily in the areas of digital media, medical humanities, popular culture, and critical theory. Courses in internet cultures, electronic music, politics and media, science and technology, feminist and queer theory, and aesthetics form the basis of their teaching. Publications on science media, alternative advising and teaching pedagogies, and free speech on college campuses form the basis of their scholarship.
Education
- Ph.D., visual studies, University of California, Irvine
- B.A., Reading the Social, University of Redlands
Professional Background
Tim Seiber has worked as a faculty member in the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies since coming to the University of Redlands in 2010 and currently serves as the center’s director.
Publications
- Seiber, Tim. “Power and Pictures on the Threshold of Life: Brain Death and Visual Culture.” In Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, edited by Lester D. Friedman and Therese Jones, 92–102. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Seiber, Tim, and Julie Townsend. “A Place to Practice: Incivility, Curriculum, and Institutional Intelligence.” Journal of School & Society 5 (1) (2018): 54–66. ISSN 2575-9922.
- Seiber, Tim. “Ideal Positions: 3D Sonography, Medical Visuality, Popular Culture.” Journal of Medical Humanities 37 (1) (July 2015).
- Seiber, Tim. “Is Charles Trippy Famous? Vlog Culture and Twenty-First-Century Gossip in Internet Killed Television.” In When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in U.S. History, edited by Kathleen Feeley and Jennifer Frost. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Seiber, Tim. “Playable Virus: HIV Molecular Aesthetics in Science and Popular Culture.” Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, edited by Suzanne Buchan (July 2014).
Awards and service
- Outstanding Faculty Award for Innovative Teaching, University of Redlands, 2017
- Phi Beta Kappa