Faculty Profile- Joseph DeLeon
Joseph DeLeon
he/him/his
Areas of Interest
- Media history
- Digital media studies
- Queer media studies
- Documentary studies
- American studies
Education
University of Michigan, PhD in Film, Television and Media, 2021
New York University, MA in Media, Culture, and Communication, 2014
Michigan State University, BA in French and Comparative Cultures and Politics, 2011
Notable Acheivements
Publications:
Joseph DeLeon, Nelson Sullivan's Video Memories: YouTube Nostalgia and the Queer Archive Effect,Velvet Light Trap 86 (Fall 2020): 16-26.
Joseph DeLeon, A Vital Human Place for All of Us: Fifth Estate and 1960s Alternative Cinema in Detroit, in Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories, eds. Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutierrez, Indiana University Press (2021).
Awards:
2023-2025 - Catalyst Grant, Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence,Grand Valley State University
2023 - LGBTQ+ Collections Fellowship, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
Bio
I am an Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies and Digital Studies at Grand Valley State University. I teach courses in the Digital Studies and Integrative Studies programs. My current book project, Public Attachments: Social Circuits of Queer Media in the 1980s-1990s, analyzes community-built media platforms for activism and memorialization across public access television, zines, home videos, and performance art in the 1980s and 1990s.