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I received my BA in English and general literature from Binghamton University, a DEA in the Texte, Imaginaire, Société program at the Université de Paris VIII, and my PhD in French at Emory University.
I was a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, before coming to Laurier in 2003.
My research examines the ways that cultural artifacts of various sorts, especially narrative films, reflect or refract socio-political issues.
I am willing to supervise graduate students working in the areas of arts and culture, social theory, and political economy. I am particularly keen on supervising projects that work at the intersection of these research areas.
Books
- Sweedler, Milo. Allegories of the End of Capitalism: Six Films on the Revolutions of Our Times. Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2020.
- Sweedler, Milo. Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film. Horizons of Cinema. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019.
- Sweedler, Milo. The Dialectic of Truth and Fiction in Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing.” CMTS Dialogues. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.
- Sweedler, Milo. The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009.
Recent articles and book chapters
- Sweedler, Milo. "Circuses without the Bread: The Hunger Games Films as an Allegory of the Alt-Right." ConctactZone: Rivista dell'Associazone per lo Studio della Fantascienza e del Fantastico (2024): 82-95.
- Sweedler, Milo. "Spectres of Capitalism: Globalization in the Craig-era Bond Films." Resisting James Bond: Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era. Edited by Lisa Funnell and Christoph Lindner (New York: Bloomsbury, 2023): 115-30.
- Sweedler, Milo. "Class Polarization, Gendered Violence, and Climate Insecurity in Neoliberal Korea: Burning and Parasite." Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2023): 1-22.
- Sweedler, Milo. "Two Faces of Neoliberalism: American Psycho and Joker." Film International vol. 20, no. 3 (summer 2022): 13-24.
- Sweedler, Milo. "Art, Activism, Sales Calls, and Slave Labor: Dialectics in Sorry to Bother You." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media vol. 61 (fall 2022).
- Sweedler, Milo. "A Pure Mathematical Tragedy: Denis Villeneuve's Incendies." Film International vol. 19, no. 4 (winter 2021): 32–44.
- Sweedler, Milo. "Trouble in the Heartland: Class and Culture in American Honey." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media vol. 60 (spring 2021).
- FR225: Le français chanté [Music in French]
- FR234: Un siècle de révolutions [A Century of Revolutions]
- FR334: Soi et autrui [Self and Other]
- FR385: Les innovations du cinéma français [Innovations in French Cinema]
- LL200: Cultural Perspectives I
- LL201: Cultural Perspectives II
- CQ601: Cultural Analysis and Social Theory
- CQ635: Social Theory and Contemporary Film
Contact Info:
Office location: P301, Frank C. Peters Building
Office hours: On sabbatical
Languages spoken: English, French