John Hunter is Professor and Director of the Comparative & Digital Humanities Program at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. His teaching focuses on the cultural effects of digital networks, computing, robotics, and artificial intelligence, with an especial interest in how these processes are represented in cinema and television.
He began his career as a literature scholar edited the Blackwell anthology Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose(2009) and Flirtation and Courtship in 18th Century Literature (with Ghislaine McDayter) (2022). His current scholarly work investigates the effects of cellphones on cinematic and televisual narrative and builds on the Film Search Engine, a searchable database of feature films that allows both verbal and visual prompts.