Andrew deWaard is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at UC San Diego. He is the author of Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture (UC Press, 2024) and the co-author of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: indie sex, corporate lies, and digital videotape (Columbia University Press, 2013). Dr. deWaard is also the co-director of The Cultural Capital Project, a SSHRC-funded research project that studies independent music in the streaming age, as well as the Media And Consolidation Research Organization (MACRO) Lab, which analyzes the effects of monopoly ownership on media.

For more information, see http://andrewdewaard.com

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Associate Professor, University of California San Diego
  • 2019–2025
    Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego

Education

  • 2017 
    University of California, Los Angeles, PhD in Cinema and Media Studies

Publications

  • 2024
    Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture, UC Press
  • 2013
    The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: indie sex, corporate lies and digital videotape, Columbia University Press

Contact Andrew for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision