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Bryan Sebok

Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies

JRH 369, MSC: 35
Office Hours:

Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00am - 4:00pm / And by appointment

Bryan Sebok is a media scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on narrative and documentary cinema as well as educational gaming. Professor Sebok’s published works explore shifts in the media industry centered around technological change, authorship, and genre. He is co-principal investigator on an NSF funded research grant, “Rehearsing Disaster: Understanding Earthquake Preparation Behavior in an Interactive Environment” and is co-designer of three educational video games. Sebok is also the creator of “Phish Tales: An Oral History Project”, the first oral history project centered around rock and roll music fandom. He enjoys live concerts at The Gorge and MSG, and is always looking for spare NYE tickets.

The first earthquake video game, Cascadia 9.0, can be accessed here: cascadia9game.org

News Stories

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Graves Award in the Humanities to Bryan Sebok

Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies Dr. Bryan Sebok has been awarded a 2017-19 Graves Award.
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Truck Tales

Associate Professor Bryan Sebok and his students serve up a new film about Portland’s lively food truck culture.

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Collaborative Research: Bryan Sebok and the Making of Cartlandia

What is the economic and cultural significance of the mobile food movement? Bryan Sebok, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies, collaborated with three students to study the food carts of Portland, OR.
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Students explore mobile food culture in Cartlandia

Alia Al-Hatlani ’14 and Sofia Alicastro ’14 are working alongside Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies Bryan Sebok on his documentary, Cartlandia. The feature-length documentary explores the phenomenon of food carts in Portland and the cultural implications therein. In the following Q&A, the team reflects on their experience.
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Professor and Students Working on Documentary

Lewis & Clark media studies professor Bryan Sebok has his students making a documentary called Cartlandia, about diversity in Portland’s food cart scene.