People
Graduate Students
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; medical anthropology; histories of psychology; disability studies; critical theories of the self
Nasirov, Yasin
Interests: Film philosophy; essay film; Russo-Soviet cinema; Apparatus Theory; Kubrick
Ullrich, Madeline
Interests: Media theory; Cultural techniques; Dress and identity; Representations of war and violence; Gender studies; Film theory
2016
Prince, Alisa
Interests: History of Photography; Identity Politics; Studio (Photography, Printmaking); Race and Representation; Critical Race Theory
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: Spatial politics; Architecture and urbanism; Extraterritoriality; Institutional histories; Creative industries; Curatorial practice
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
Dent, Jerome
Interests: Critical Theory; Critical Race Theory; Gender Studies and Queer Theory; Afrofuturism; Black Feminism; Film Studies; Pop Culture and Fan Culture
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
DiGiulio, Lauren
Interests: Modern and Contemporary art; performance; phenomenology of language; concrete poetry; symbolism; interiority
Gu, Jiangtao (Harry)
Interests: Chinese visual culture; Transnational history of photography; European imperialism, colonial modernity; Historiography, temporal and spatial politics; Identity-formation, state-formation; Liberal arts pedagogy, digital humanities
Sullivan, Patrick
Interests: Film philosophy; globalization; cinematic representation of space and time; Thai cinema; early cinema; film sound
2012
Ahmadi, Tara Najd
Interests: Modern and contemporary art with emphasis on Iran and Middle East; Independent and avant-garde cinema, film production; Art market, consumption, labor; Gender studies, feminism; Puppets
Anderson, Joel Neville
Interests: Experimental film and video; personal documentary; community media; film festival studies; Japanese cinema and visual culture
Freedenberg, Eitan
Interests: critical geography; vernacular architecture; heritage production; postmodern tourisms; open-air museums; precursors to virtual reality
Gao, Victoria
Interests: Twentieth century American and French street photography; naturalism and realism in narrative film; issues of privacy and candidness; urban spectatorship; intersections between film and photography
Stuber, Tracy
Interests: modern and contemporary art; critical theory; media theory; historiography; photography between the artistic and the vernacular; haptics and phenomenology; rocks
Wolf, S. Alana
Interests: Modern and Contemporary art; Data auralization, sonification, and sound studies; Architecture and urbanization; Representations of space and sound; Public art; Memory and materiality; Media theory and digital humanities
2011
Alawadhi, Hend
Interests: Critical race theory; (Documentary) film studies; Disability studies; Transnational feminism; Women’s health; Representations of illness and disability in Arab media; Archival memory; Popular culture and social activism
Long, Kelly
Interests: Contemporary art and critical theory; identity politics; space and memory; dialectical utopianism; artist books
Patrello, Christopher
Interests: Native American art history; material culture and materiality; consumption; museum studies