Graduate Students
2020
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
Genter, Elisabeth Rose
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; Interactivity; Exhibitions and Public Engagement; Arts Equity
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 in East Asia; new media art; post-colonialism; philosophy of technology
Fleming, Bridget
Interests: Post-war & contemporary art; performance; spectatorship; philosophy of art; critical theory; gender; post-war aesthetics & politics in Southern Italy
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 and media; film theory; critical theory; disability studies; histories of psychology
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
Prince, Alisa
Interests: History of Photography; Black Feminism; Domestic Archives (familial and personal photographic collections); Critical Race Theory; Studio Art (photography & printmaking); Afrofuturism; Black Cultural Capital & Representation; Constructions of Identity
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
Cheng, Mimi
Interests: Global architectural history; European imperialism; orientalism; spatial politics; architectural theory; pattern and ornament
Tulke, Julia
Interests: Street art and graffiti as political practice; Urban space, Right to the City, Politics of everyday life in the city; Social movements and protest; Performative and visual activism; Economic crisis and austerity; Affect theory ; Visual ethnography; 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