Hanna Rose Shell

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
and Art & Art History Department, CU Boulder


List of selected publications

See also my list of films.

Books

2020
SHODDY: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

2019
DigitalSTS: A Handbook and Fieldguide, co-edited with J. Vertesi , D. Ribes, Y. Loukissas, L. Forlano, C. DiSalvo, D. Rosner and S. Jackson. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

2014
Ni vu ni connu (French translation of Hide and Seek). Brussels: Zones Sensibles.

2012
Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography and the Media of Reconnaissance. New York: Zone Books.

2002
Editor, with a new introduction, William Temple Hornaday's The Extermination of the American Bison. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, [1889].

Articles in Journals

2020
“High Altitude Observatory: Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds” Technology and Culture 61:1 January 2020: 239-259.

2016
“Devil's Dust” Cabinet: A Quarterly Journal of Art and Culture 60 (Fall 2016): 1-8. Translated into Czech and published by the Agosto Foundation as “D?a´blu°v prach” (Spring 2017).

2016
"Digital Histories of Disaster" (co-authored with Lisa Onaga) Technology and Culture 56 (January 2016).

2015
"Shoddy Heap: A Material History Between Waste and Manufacture" in History and Technology 30:4 (Spring): 374-394.

2015
"Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive" in Technology and Culture 55 (January): 204-208. Co-authored with Alex Wellerstein.

2014
"Films in the Archive: The Prelinger Collection and Hollywood in Detroit" in Technology and Culture 55 (July): 711-715.

2014
"Beyond Words: Audio-Visual Media in the History of Technology" in Technology and Culture 55 (April): 477-478.

2013
"Ciné-History and Experiments on Film" in Journal of Visual Culture 11 (Winter): 288-306.

2012
"Blind: The Phenomenology of Camouflage" in Sensate: A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice (December): peer-reviewed online publication.

2012
"Locomotion in Water" Journal of Short Film (Spring): peer-reviewed DVD publication.

2009
"The Crucial Moment of Photographic Deception: Abbott Handerson Thayer's Law of Protective Coloration," Cabinet 33 (Spring 2009): 17-30.

2006
"Textile Skin: Lives and Afterlives of the Social Fabric," Transition 96 (Fall 2006): 151-163. (Featured in Wilson Quarterly and Chronicle of Higher Education.)

2005
"Casting Life, Recasting Experience: Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature." Configurations 12 (Winter 2004): 1-40.

Chapters in Books

2013
"A Global History of Secondhand Clothing" in Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, ed. (New York: NYU Press, 2013), peer-reviewed online publication.

2010
"Earthworks: The Ceramic Display of Natural Knowledge in Clay," in Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, Ursula Klein and Emma Spary, ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 50-70.

2005
"Things Under Water: Etienne-Jules Marey's Aquarium Laboratory and Cinema's Assembly," in Dingpolitik: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, ed. (Cambridge: MIT Press), pp. 326-332.

2004
"Skin Deep: Taxidermy, Embodiment and Extinction" in The Past, Present and Future of Natural History: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, A. Leviton, ed. (San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 2004), pp. 88-112.