Robert A. Rushing

Robert A. Rushing is professor of Italian and Cinema Studies in the departments of European Languages & Transcultural Studies and Film, Television & Digital Media at UCLA. His research interests include film and television, gender and genre, biopolitics, sound studies and transmediality. He is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (2007), Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (2016, AAIS Best Film/Media Book Prize) and Transmedial Resonance: The Acoustic Afterlives of Italo Calvino (Fordham University Press, 2026). He is co-editor of two volumes on North American television: Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s (2011) and Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics (2018).

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