Charlie MichaelAssistant Professor
Charlie Michael is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media. His research and teaching focus on popular culture and the media industries in a global context.
Dr. Michael’s first book – French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2019) – theorizes and historicizes how new forms of commercialized filmmaking have changed what it means to make (or to see) a “French” film in the 21st century. His second monograph – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Youth, Race, and the Hypertext (Routledge, 2024) – analyzes the groundbreaking animation techniques, citational strategies, and racial politics of a contemporary classic of American youth culture. His work has also appeared in venues like SubStance, The Velvet Light Trap, Transnational Screens, Quebec Studies, and Action Cinema Since 2000. Current projects include a co-edited volume on the neglected films and filmmakers of the French New Wave and an expanded account of the Spider-Verse trilogy as a whole.
Prior to joining the Emory faculty in the Fall of 2024, Dr. Michael taught at the University of Miami, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Georgia Gwinnett College. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Warwick (UK) and at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) in Paris.
Education
- MA, PhD, Communication Arts (Film), University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MA, Comparative Literature, University of Iowa
- BA, English, Carleton College
