Bio

David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the Eugene Lang College of the Liberal Arts at The New School. Areas of research include film and media studies, digital culture, the intersections of Black Studies and AI, and media cultures at the nexus of race, economy, and technology. For his work in pedagogy and the digital humanities, David was the recipient of the Lilly Teaching Fellowship in 2015 and he is a founding member of the Digital Theory Lab at NYU. His forthcoming book project, Undead Labor: Capitalism’s Zombie Worker (Minnesota University Press, November 2026) is a study of undead labor and the ways that race, labor, and value come together in the mediated body of the zombie and his articles have appeared in the journals Critical Inquiry, Culture Machine, MIRAJ, Post 45, Flow, Calibano, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.