Liam Rogers

Thesis title:

Screening posthumanism: humanness, embodiment and artificial people in 21st century science-fiction film and television

Research Area

Media

Publications

Rogers, L. (2017). Anicom Seriality: BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) and the Post-Broadcast Era. Animation Studies 2.0, Animation and Seriality.

Conferences

Does the ArchAndroid Dream of Electric Sheep? Janelle Monáe, Posthumanism and the Post-Racial “Other” in “Autofac” (2018). Department of Film and Television Studies Research Day [Digital], The University of Warwick. May 2021.

“I am everywhere:” Disembodied Knowledge and Contradictory Posthumanism in Lucy (2014). BAFTSS New Connections Event: Posthumanism(s) Roundtable [Digital], The University of Warwick. June 2021.

Co-organised Posthuman Bodies and Embodied Posthumanisms: An Interdisciplinary Conference [Hybrid], The University of Warwick, October 2022.

Screening Holography: Materialised Transparency, Intangible Love and Posthumanism. Electricdreams (Sogni Elettrici) - Between Fiction and Society II: The (Post)human Condition in Times of Crisis: The Interplay between Artificial Intelligence, Otherness, and Environmentalism [In-person], IULM, Milan, Italy, October 2023 (upcoming).

Public Engagement & Impact

Ich bin dein Mensch/I'm Your Man (2021) and the Perfect Man. Introductory talk followed by screening of Ich bin dein Mensch. The Apocalypse is Now Film Festival, Resonate Festival, The University of Warwick. October 2021.

Other Research Interests

Gender, performativity and the work of Judith Butler
Television studies, including the "post-broadcast era"
Narratology
The ontology of film and television's medium specificity
Aesthetics, intention and authorship ideology
Digital cinema and CGI
The animated sitcom
"New Queer Cinema"

Memberships

BAFTSS - Science-fiction and Fantasy Special Interest Group, Founding Member.

Teaching

Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant, FI336: Science Fiction: Theory as Film (2022)
Weekly seminars with 3rd year & Master's students
Guest lecture on Donna Haraway and the Cyborg (week 8)
Marking and moderation of summative and formative assessments

Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant, FI113: Theories for Film Studies (2022)
Weekly seminars with 1st year students
Marking and moderation of summative assessments

Guest Lecturer, IL907: Habitability in the Universe (2023)
Delivery of lecture/seminar hybrid on Habitability in Film (week 7)

Guest Lecturer, FI336: Science Fiction: Theory as Film (2023)
Guest lecture on Donna Haraway and the Cyborg (week 8)
Marking and moderation of summative assessments