Biography
Patrick Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tampa. 

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. He takes a hands-on approach to teaching media history, a topic he explored in a recent co-authored article, “Object Lessons, Now and Then: Experimental Media Archaeology in the Classroom.” He earned teaching awards at both UC Berkeley and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ellis also does curatorial work and has programmed screenings or exhibits for the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta), the Media Archaeology Lab (Boulder), the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), and the Wolfsonian Museum (Miami), among others.