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2026 PhD Cohort Announced: Media Archaeologies

Media Ecologies Poster

CU Boulder English is embarking on a new kind of PhD that is collaborative, experimental, and that affords students a chance to work closely with each other and with faculty.We are introducing a 鈥淢edia Ecology鈥 lab and team-taught courses where PhD students work with faculty and one another to map, theorize, and develop dissertation specialties via intensive mentoring, reading, and co-writing and -publishing in the lab. We offer competitive funding packages, along with excellent teaching and networking opportunities. Students will work with established academics and professionals in the fields of their interest.

What are 鈥渕edia ecologies鈥? If 鈥渆cology鈥 refers to the relationships between humans and the more-than-human,mediaecology takes its cue from manuscripts, archives, as well as printed and digital environments to consider how text technologies and material infrastructures shape readers and their worlds. Conversely, readers perceive the material world through the lens of media. In addition to asking traditional questions in literary scholarship like 鈥淲hat does the text mean?鈥 we theorize texts as occupying an ecological niche, suggesting that both medial form and its content occupy a symbiotic and competitive relationship with other texts. Like capital itself, text is always in motion and always innovating. The field of cultural production shifts, morphs, combines, and mutates. We are seeking students interested in both environmental and media studies. We encourage those working in any literary period, with interests anywhere from medieval manuscripts to AI.

For more information, click Prospective Students above.