Jason Mittell

Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. His books include Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015), The Videographic Essay: Practice & Pedagogy (with Christian Keathley & Catherine Grant, videographicessay.org), and How to Watch Television (co-edited with Ethan Thompson; NYU Press, 2013; revised edition 2020). He is project manager for [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, co-director of the workshop series Scholarship in Sound & Image, and series editor of Videographic Books for Lever Press. In 2022, he received an NEH/Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication for his project, “The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad: An Audiovisual Book,” the first NEH fellowship awarded for videographic criticism.