ricky d'andrea crano

My teaching, writing, and research focus on data culture, algorithmic epistemologies, affective infrastructures, and the environmental and political implications of screen media in an age of near-compulsory digitality. I have a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University. I have previously taught at Tufts, MIT, Ohio State, George Mason, and the Columbus College of Art and Design; served on the Governing Board and then as Treasurer of the Cultural Studies Association; and collaborated over two decades with artists, performers, academics, and activists in myriad capacities.

Since 2021, at UC Irvine, I have taught in Film and Media Studies, English, and Anthropology; as co-director of the Digital Humanities Exchange from 2023 – 2025, I piloted a Critical Data Studies initiative and organized conferences on The AI Paradigm and Network Ecologies.

My work has appeared in the interdisciplinary journals Critical AI, Open Cultural Studies, Convergence, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Film-Philosophy, and many others; as well as in the anthologies Sampling Media (Oxford UP), “You’re Muted”: Performance, Precarity, and the Logic of Zoom (Bloomsbury Academic), and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (Oxford UP). My forthcoming book, Network Fascist USA: Algorithmic Mass Media and The Collapse of the Liberal Subject, examines the reorganizations of sense, subjectivity, and social power through twenty-first-century media industries, rituals, forms, and trends.