Damon Ross Young is associate professor of French and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches in the Program in Critical Theory. He is author of Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies (Duke, 2018, shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize), as well as numerous essays on film theory, psychoanalysis, queer theory, pornography and digital media. He is co-editor, most recently of Meme Aesthetics, a special issue of Representations, and his current book project, Century of the Selfie, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.