Graduate Students
2022

Broad, Emily
Interests: Documentary photography; Depression-era photography; archival theory; image-text relations; Marxist/Socialist art


Fincher, Bethany
Interests: Noise and sound studies; art and experimental music; performance art; body art; critical theory; post-structuralism

Galban, Michael
Interests: 17th & 18th century Eastern Woodland art and material culture; Indigenous gender roles in art; Indigenous Semiotics of the Colonial era; Contemporary Native American Art; Folklore; Eastern Woodland Body Modification; Colonial North American History; Public history and interpretation

Kim, Kangmin
Interests: Modern and contemporary art; Cold War; Migration; Ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union and the United States; Home and unhomeliness

Yu Jin, Renee
Interests: Contemporary art; Anthropology of art; Asian studies; Material culture in media ages; National identity and transnationalism; Visual analogy; Feminism, gender, and race studies; Critical pedagogy
2021
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Arnett, Daly
Interests: 20th century Visual Culture; American Studies; Self-taught art; Folk art; Modernism(s); Historiography; Post-structuralism; Formalism

Barski, Justin
Interests: Critical Theory; Modern and Contemporary Art; Aesthetics; History of Science and Technology; History of Philosophy; Marxism; Surveillance; New Media

Carter, Jacob
Interests: Film and media studies; film phenomenology; horror; cinematic realism

Genter Montevecchio, Elisabeth R.
Interests: Early Modern Art; Dutch and German Art; Monstrosity and the Grotesque in Art; Horror Theory; Gender Studies ; Film Studies and Popular Culture

Hamilton, Tierney
Interests: Art and Technology; Expanded Cinema; Video; Information Art; Interactivity; Culture Jamming; San Francisco Bay Area 1979-2009

Palmer, Dylan
Interests: Post 1960s cinema, Marxism, continental philosophy, urban studies, geography, spatiality, temporality

Zhu, Siheng
Interests: Animation; Game Studies; Popular Culture; Asian Studies; Media Studies; Globalization
2019

Cheng, Hsin-Yun
Interests: Contemporary art; Performance studies; Asian American art; Migration and diaspora; Globalization; Socially engaged art; Labor and capitalism

Fleming, Bridget
Interests: Postwar and contemporary art; artist collectives and collectivity; socially engaged art; media studies and video; gender and sexuality

Genevro, Danielle
Interests: Film theory and history; classical Hollywood; psychoanalysis

Keeton, Jamey
Interests: animation; comics studies; critical theory; digital humanities; film and television; popular culture; media studies

Segu Jensen, Catalina
Interests: digital media studies; critical theory and technology ; space and spatiality; globalization; capitalism; contemporary art
2018

Amadou, Ouma
Interests: film and media studies; (post)colonialism; critical race theory; psychoanalysis; water and landscapes

Karakaya, Elif
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art; Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art; 20th century French Theory; Word-image Studies; Art Historiography; Museum Studies; Ethics of curation

Keye, Wade
Interests: Critical Study of New Media; Surveillance Studies; Online Memorial Culture; Memes

Sancto, Christian
Interests: Modern and contemporary art; Sound and moving images; Performance studies; Gender and sexuality; Aesthetics and critical theory

Taormina, Victoria
Interests: Gender and sexuality; Performance art; Latinx studies; Critical race theory
2017

DeBoer, Kendall
Interests: Surrealisms; Self-taught art; Folk art; Outliers; Artifice; Ornamentation; Decoration; Craft studies; Fiber art; Unconventional materials; Excess; Adornment; Theatricality; Gender

Ely, Taryn
Interests: Experimental film; disability studies; film and media studies; spectatorship; histories of psychology and psychiatry

Nasirov, Yasin
Interests: Film and Philosophy; Russian Cinema; Adaptation Studies; Experimental Film; Kubrick

Ullrich, Madeline
Interests: gender and sexuality; queer theory; feminism(s); film and media studies; television studies; sound studies
2016


2015

Auclair, Clara
Interests: Early cinema/Early French cinema; Film archiving; Film history, theory, and aesthetics; Film and anthropology; Heritage, identity, and memory; Historiography; Museum and archival movements

Tulke, Julia
Interests: Crisis Urbanism and Aesthetics; Space and Place; Performative and Visual Protest; Political Street Art and Graffiti; Photography as Research Method; Critical Cartography and Mapping
2014
Escobar Lopez, Almudena
Interests: Experimental film, video and time-based media production; Cooperativism and collectivism; Community media; Film and media archival studies; Politics of image making ; Curatorial studies; Gender studies and feminism
2013

Chester, Alicia
Interests: Photography history and theory; history of psychiatric portraiture and brain imaging; trauma and memory studies; media archaeology; vernacular photographic practices and technologies; atomic-age culture; modern and contemporary art