Kate Brideau

Biography

Kate Brideau has been teaching at New York University since 2010, and joined the Stern School of Business as an Adjunct Professor. Professor Brideau's research and teaching emphasize critical awareness of the forms communications take—informed not only by rhetorical and linguistic studies, but also by the history of technology, and media design. In addition to Stern, Professor Brideau has taught for the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, for the College of Arts & Science's Expository Writing Program, and currently teaches several courses in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Kate is also a developmental and copy editor, working with academic texts and comic books.

Research Interests

• Media design
• Typography & graphic design
• Communication
• Intellectual property
• Political and economic theory

Courses Taught

• Business and Society
• Commerce and Culture

Academic Background

PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication, 2013
New York University

MA, Humanities, 2005
University of Chicago

BA, English, 2003
Ohio Wesleyan University

Selected Publications

Kate Brideau (2021)
The Typographic Medium
MIT Press

Kate Brideau (2021)
Everything Quantizes
In Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, eds. A. Jaffe, M. F. Miller, and R. Martini