Justus Nieland is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of English at Michigan State University, and he teaches in the Film Studies Program. He specializes in modernism and film and media history, and his research interests include modern design and architectural history, industrial film and corporate media, materialist and infrastructural approaches to the media, and the environmental humanities. 

His most recent book, Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) was shortlisted for the 2021 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. He is also the author of David Lynch (University of Illinois Press, 2012), Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernities and the Cultures of Globalization, with Jen Fay (Routledge, 2009), and Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life (University of Illinois Press, 2008).