Hi—I teach in English and American Culture Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, and I’m the TV editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
email / pjmaciak@wustl.edu
Twitter / Dear Television / Netflix and Phil
About
I am Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Program in Film and Media Arts at Louisiana State University. My book, The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era, is under contract with Columbia University Press. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Adaptation, PMLA, J19: The Journal of 19th Century Americanists, Film Quarterly, and the Cambridge…
Research
The Disappearing Christ (Columbia University Press / under contract) explores the simultaneous evolution of secularism and modern spectatorship in the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. To do this, I look to a series of visualizations of the life of Jesus Christ that showcase the intertwined relationship of spirituality and visual media. Indeed, I…
TV
In addition to my academic work, I am a freelance television and film critic and co-founder of the TV criticism blog Dear Television which has been syndicated at The New Republic and The Slice, and now provides regular, broad-ranging television coverage for The Los Angeles Review of Books. I am also LARB‘s TV editor, and I write a semi-regular email newsletter called Netflix…
