Berklee College of Music

Faculty Member, Liberal Arts

Associate Professor

About

Lori Landay, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Liberal Arts Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she teaches interdisciplinary courses such as "Digital Narrative Theory & Practice," "Approaches to Visual Culture," "What Is Being?," "The Jazz Age" and "The Nature of Technology" in the Liberal Arts Department, and "The Language of Film" in the Film Scoring Department.  She is the Coordinator of the Minor is Visual Culture and New Media Studies.
Professor Landay’s exploration of visual media and technology extends far beyond the borders of Berklee. She is the author of two books: I Love Lucy, in the TV Milestones Series by Wayne State University Press (2010), and  Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press), and a new media artist who made the creative documentary The Jazz Age Gaze: Looking at the Flapper Film, and other digital media works.  She has also published on other aspects of film and television comedy, silent film, and new media technologies, and has presented papers at national and international conferences. 

Professor Landay serves as Coordinator of Technology in Learning and Teaching (TiLT) for the Liberal Arts Department. She also drives technology initiatives at the college as co-founder of the ReBoot program of workshops and institutes on teaching with technology for Berklee faculty and a member of the BTOT (Berklee Teachers on Teaching) conference planning committee. She also brings her expertise in technology and other aspects of education to her work on the Curriculum Review Initiative Steering Committee. Professor Landay has quickly established herself as an incredible resource for faculty at the college, sharing imaginative and effective ways for using technology in the classroom.  On a national and international level, she served as the Information Technology Officer for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies from 2002-2005 and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of E-Media Studies. 

Lori earned her Ph.D. in English and American Studies from Indiana University.  She also has an M.A. in English from Indiana University and an M.A. in American Studies from Boston College.  She did her undergraduate work at Colby College, with a year abroad studying Politics and Sociology at the University of York, England. 

For her imaginative and innovative teaching, and dedicated and passionate work, Professor Lori Landay was selected as the Chief Marshal for the Berklee College of Music 2006 Commencement. In 2007, she was awarded the Professional Education Division's prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2008, she was selected as one of the two inaugural recipients of the Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship for her innovative project, "Virtual Worlds." For the academic year 2008-09, she was on sabbatical in the virtual world Second Life, engaged in her project, "Sharpening the Cutting Edge: What's New in New Media?"  She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions Grant for "What Is Being?" (2010-2012).

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