Brooke Belisle researches and teaches the comparative history and theory of media aesthetics at Stony Brook. Her work focuses on the recurrent disruptions and possibilities of “new media”, exploring emergent formats and experimental practices that echo across different periods of technological and social transformation. She directs the Stony Brook working group in Media, Art, Culture, and Technology , is an editor of the Journal of Visual Culture , and has co-chaired the CinemArts group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.