Dale Hudson
Associate Professor of Film and New Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA, Bucknell University; MA, New York University; PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Areas: postcolonial and transnational film and digital media; art, environmentalism, and globalization; film and visual culture in Middle East [Southwest Asia], North Africa, South Asia (MENASA [SWANASA]), especially the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula
Dale Hudson’s research focuses on film, digital, and visual media as sites to understand structural inequality that manifests in involuntary migration, free trade, and climate crisis through frameworks of postcolonial, decolonial, critical race, globalization, environmental, and animal studies.
His publications and programming focus on three interdisciplinary areas of inquiry: (1) locating environmentalist modes of contestation to privatization and financialization of resource and knowledge extraction, particularly through documentary, experimental and interactive modes, (2) understanding film, visual, and digital media within and against the Western-defined areas or regions of Middle East [Southwest Asia], North Africa, South Asia (MENASA [SWANASA]), especially the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula, by focusing on historical interconnections and interdependencies, and (3) considering possibilities for social and environmental justice against the capitalist/imperialist nexus of racism, sexism, and speciesism in film, television, and web media.
He is author of Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, co-author with Patricia R. Zimmermann of Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places, and co-editor with Alia Yunis of a special double issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication titled “Film and Visual Media in the Gulf: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” and Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet. His essays and other writings appear in Afterimage, American Quarterly, Arabian Humanities, Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Jadaliyya, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jump Cut, Media + Environment, Screen, Social Research Studies in Documentary Film, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, and other journals and anthologies. His work has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian.
He has curated and co-curated annual online exhibitions of digital media for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) since 2007. He has served as a member of the board of directors for the Association of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) since 2017 and has coordinated Film from the Gulf at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Film Festival since 2016. He also programs art exhibitions and film series, mostly related to the Gulf, with the NYUAD Art Gallery and NYUAD Institute.