讲座摘要

蒂姆·格吕内瓦尔德致力于美国文化与视觉研究领域教学科研工作，重点关注虚拟现实、电影、电视、图像叙事及博物馆展览等大众文化形态。在加入香港大学前，他曾在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校及西雅图的华盛顿大学执教。自2014年起担任美国研究项目主任。格吕内瓦尔德教授撰写的专著《Curating America’s Painful Past: Museums, Memory, and the National Imagination 》（策展美国伤痛史：博物馆、记忆与民族想象），深入剖析了国家广场历史博物馆如何呈现集体暴力记忆与美国民族想象的碰撞。近期编撰著作包括《Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection》（重审美国往事：金赛非裔美国艺术历史收藏集评述）与《Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture Since 9/11 》（帝国仁慈：9·11 后的美国外交政策与大众文化）。此外，他与乔治·王共同主编了《亚洲电影杂志》特刊《中美电影潮流对话》。其学术论文发表于《文化研究》《美国文化杂志》《传播、文化与批判》等权威期刊。

目前，Gruenewald教授正主持一项关于360 度全景电影与 VR 体验中线性叙事机制的研究项目。该项目获香港大学教育资助委员会（RGC）资助。除了学术研究，Gruenewald 教授还活跃于纪录片领域。其长片纪录片 《圣地》（Sacred Ground） 曾入围多个美国国际电影节竞赛单元，并于 2015 年荣获伊迪尔怀尔德国际电影节独立精神奖。

Tim Gruenewald researches and teaches US cultural and visual studies with a focus on popular culture, including virtual reality, film, television, graphic narrative, and museum exhibitions. His research investigates how narrative construction of contested pasts intersects with the imagination of collective identities in the present. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has served as the Director of the American Studies Programme since 2014.

Professor Gruenewald is the author of Curating America’s Painful Past: Museums, Memory, and the National Imagination (University Press of Kansas, 2021), which examines how memory of collective violence and the US national imagination collide in historical museums of the National Mall. Recent publications include Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection (editor. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 2019) and Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture Since 9/11 (co-editor with Scott Laderman. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2018). He is the co-editor of the Asian Cinema Journal special issue Cinematic Currents between China and the US (with George Wang). His articles have appeared in Cultural Studies, The Journal of American Culture, Communication, Culture, and Critique, and elsewhere.

Currently, Professor Gruenewald is working on a new research project on linear narratives in 360° film and VR experiences. Funded by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, this project develops VR theory and examines contested memories of US history in the emerging narrative medium.

Professor Gruenewald is also a filmmaker. His documentary feature Sacred Ground was selected for the competition at several international festivals in the United States and won the Independent Spirit Award at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in 2015. The film establishes surprising connections between two iconic memory sites in the United States: Mount Rushmore National Memorial and the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre.