Rita Leistner is an interdisciplinary practitioner-theorist, an award-winning war photographer and documentarian with an MA in comparative literature from the University of Toronto, where she teaches the history of photojournalism and documentary photography. Her latest book, Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan (Intellect, December 2013), applies the pioneering Canadian media theorist’s ideas on language and technology to contemporary warfare and smartphones.
Articles by Rita Leistner
- Television Wars (March 2014)
A review of Guerrilla Nation: My Wars In and Out of Vietnam, by Michael Maclear - Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan (June 2012)
A 12-part LRC series, featuring text and iPhone Hipstamatic photography