Dr. Andrew Ventimiglia
Assistant Professor
Office
FEL Fell Hall 428
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday, 1-2
Office Phone
Email
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
I am a media and cultural studies scholar whose research focuses on the history and cultural effects of intellectual property law in the United States.
Current Courses
COM 287.016 Independent Study
COM 400.016 Independent Study
COM 160.001 Introduction To Mass Media
Teaching Interests & Areas
Media law and policy, mass media ethics
Ph D Cultural Studies
University of California - Davis
Davis, CA
MA Cinema Studies
New York University
New York, NY
BA Cinema Studies
New York University
New York, NY
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
2013
Grants and Contracts
A Spiritual Genealogy of Consumer Neuroscience: A Case Study in Communicating Innovation Across Boundaries
Andrew Ventimiglia.
School of Communication. July 2020 - June 2021
"Film Festival Management and Curation: A Hands-On Course for Creating a Local Film Festival in Bloomington-Normal"
Andrew Ventimiglia, Brent Simonds, Nathania Kurtz Rubin, Liv Stone.
College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant Program. January 2020
"Media Filtering as Religious Worldview: VidAngel and the Emergence of Religious Content Moderation"
Andrew Ventimiglia, Gavin Feller.
Lived Religion in the Digital Age Project, St. Louis University. February 2020 - May 2021
Book Review
Review of "Platforms and Cultural Production"
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2023), 67, 615-617, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Review of 'American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems'
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2017), Reading Religion
The Interface is the Message
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2016), 6, 75-80, Reviews in Cultural Theory
Book, Authored
Copyrighting God: Ownership of the Sacred in American Religion
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2019), 254, Cambridge University Press
Book, Chapter
Introduction to Global Perspectives on Animism and Autonomous Technologies
Ralph M. Becker, Antônio Luz Costa, Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2025), 1-12, 10.1007/978-3-031-88209-8_1, Global Perspectives on Animism and Autonomous Technologies, Springer Nature Switzerland
Inventing Agency: Autonomous Technologies and Legal Animism
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2025), 203-221, 10.1007/978-3-031-88209-8_9, Global Perspectives on Animism and Autonomous Technologies, Springer Nature Switzerland
Outlaw Artists and Esoteric Media: International Copyright and Alejandro Jodorowsky's Illicit Media Practice
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2023), 123-139, ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Edinburgh University Press
Papal Copyright: Textual Authority and Media Distribution in Pope Francis' Pontificate
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2021), 177-194, Understanding Pope Francis: Message, Medium, and Audience, Lexington Books
The Angel in the Machine. Divining Legal Authorship in Channelled and Computer-Generated Works
Andrew Ventimiglia.
(2020), 236-260, 10.1515/9783110416411-009, Mediality on Trial: Testing and Contesting Trance and other Media Techniques, De Gruyter
Journal Article
A Name Which to Them is Sacred: Quakers and Religious Trademarks in American Enterprise
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Polemos, 17 (2), 317-332, (2023)
Cross and Crown TM: Trademarks and the Legal Naming of American Religions
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Religion and American Culture, 33 (2), 183-219, (2023)
Introduction to the "Spectral Nature of Intellectual Property"
Andrew Ventimiglia, Allison Fish, David Jefferson.
Polemos, 17 (2), 213-216, (2023)
Open Source Religion: Spiritual Software and the Production and Ownership of Religious Data (1955-2010)
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Information & Culture, 56 (3), 279-302, (2021)
VidAngel: Content filtering technologies, religion, and American copyright law
Gavin Feller, Andrew Ventimiglia.
Internet Histories, 5 (1), 8-29, (2021), 10.1080/24701475.2020.1831198
‘Deceptions Have Been Practiced’: Food Standards as Intellectual Property in the Missouri and Ohio Wine Industries (1906-1920)
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Enterprise & Society, (2020)
The Sermon's Copy: Pulpit Plagiarism and the Ownership of Divine Knowledge
Andrew Ventimiglia.
KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, (2020)
Demanding the Angels' Share: Intellectual Property, Emerging Religions, and the Spirit of the Work
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Cultural Critique, 101, 37-83, (2018)
A Market in Prophecy: Secularism, Law, and the Economy of American Religious Publishing
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 85 (3), 629-652, (2017), 10.1093/jaarel/lfw084
Presentations
Figures of Mind: Spiritual Innovation and Military Influence in the Patenting of Neurofeedback Devices
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Patents as Scientific Information (PASSIM) Workshop, Norrkoping, Sweden, May 16, 2022
Media Filtering as Religious Worldview: VidAngel and the Emergence of Religious Content Moderation
Andrew Ventimiglia, Gavin Feller.
International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture Conference, Online, August 4, 2021
Critical Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Intellectual Property
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Law and Society Association Conference, Online, May 28, 2021
The Cross and the Crown: Faith Branding in Christian Science
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Online, July 29, 2020
Text Mining and the Production and Ownership of Religious Data (1955-2010)
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Data Then and Now Seminar Series, Seattle, WA, May 20, 2020
Faith Brands and the Legal Naming of American Religions
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Brand Biographies Workshop, London, UK, January 24, 2020
Open Source Religion: The Ownership of Religious Data and its Effects on Communication
Andrew Ventimiglia.
National Communication Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 17, 2019
'Deceptions Have Been Practiced’: Food Standards as Geographical Indications in the Missouri and Ohio Wine Industries (1906-1920)
Andrew Ventimiglia.
Australian IP Scholars Workshop, Hobart, Tasmania, February 12, 2019