Vartan Messier

Vartan Messier is an Assistant Professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY) and specializes in contemporary fiction, film and media studies, postcolonial studies, and continental philosophy.  His work examines interdisciplinary discourses pertaining to the formation of cultural and gender subjectivities across transnational networks of global interconnectivity. Engaging with theories of intertextuality and intermediality, his publications have focused on investigating the aesthetics and politics of media interaction and consumption across texts and contexts. His current book project is a transnational study of the interconnections between desire, gendered subjectivity, and notions of cultural specificity in 20th and 21st century works of film and literature from the U.S., Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. At CUNY, Professor Messier has taught freshman composition, introductory courses in literature and media studies, as well as upper-division courses on contemporary and postcolonial fiction, media criticism, literary theory, and film.