Meet Patrick Ellis
Assistant Professor, Communication
Phone: (813) 257-3520
Email: pellis@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: 100F
Building:
KBB
Room: 215
Education
2005 Concordia University (Montreal), B.A.
2006 University of Toronto, M.A.
2017 University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
American Cinema
Visual Literacy
Career Specialties
Patrick Ellis is a historian of film and media, with a special interest in how these subjects interact with the histories of cartography, medicine, science and technology.
Professional and Community Activities
Ellis has work published in The British Journal for the History of Science, Early Popular Visual Culture, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Imago Mundi. His book, Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird’s-Eye View, provides a history of aerial vision in the era prior to commonplace flight. It is forthcoming from University of California Press in 2021.
Honors and Awards
Award for Multimodal Innovation in Teaching, Georgia Institute of Technology (2019)
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2016–2017)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley (2015)
Russell Merritt Award for Silent Film Research, University of California, Berkeley (2014)
Parker Tyler Award in Film Studies, Concordia University, Montreal (2005)