William Uricchio

Who is William Uricchio?

William Charles Uricchio is an American media scholar and Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Together with Henry Jenkins, he helped to build and direct MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. Uricchio was Principal Investigator of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and continues in that role with its successor, the MIT Game Lab. He is founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab. He is also author or editor of several books including We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identity; Media Cultures; Die Anfänge des deutschen Fernsehens: Kritische Annäherungen an die Entwicklung bis 1945; Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films; and The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media. Uricchio is series editor of the MIT Press Playful Thinking Series on game related topics.