Research-in-Progress Workshop
The Research-in-Progress (RIP) Workshop is a student-led forum dedicated to the interdisciplinary research of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies (VCS).
The workshop aims to cultivate a fertile, collaborative space in which VCS students, steering committee members, and affiliated faculty may present their research and engage with the research of others within the program. Research to be presented may include—but is by no means limited to—book or dissertation chapters, articles, conference papers, fellowship applications, and artworks.
RIP welcomes works and ideas at all stages of the research and writing process, especially unpolished works that have reached a seeming impasse. The goal is to further develop thoughtful research through rigorous conversation with others, revision, and daringness, in the spirit of VCS.
The workshop meets three times a semester and, because it serves as an invaluable resource, is held on Fridays when there are no classes to enable robust attendance.
Current workshop coordinators:
- Tristan Bass-Krueger
- Emily Broad
- Bethany Fincher
Past coordinators:
- Helen “Daly” Arnett (co-founder)
- Danielle Genevro (co-founder)
Past Presenters
Spring 2024
January 26, 2024
Renee Jin
Conference Paper
Title: “Voices and Visuals: Navigating Stereotypes, (De)performativity, and Diasporic Identities in the Vlogs of China’s Female PhD Students”
Justin Barski
Journal Article Draft
“The New Aesthetic and the Subsumption of the Line: James Bridle’s Autonomous Trap 001”
February 23, 2024
TBA
April 12, 2024
TBA
Fall 2023
October 6, 2023
Llerena Searle
Book Chapter Draft
“Indianness at a Distance: Nostalgia and Exposure in Indian Interior Design”
Dylan Palmer
Journal Article Draft
“The Question of Camera-Reality: Godard, Kracauer, Bazin”
December 1, 2023
Bridget Fleming
Dissertation Chapter
“The Disregarded Voice: On Naeem Mohaiemen’s Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017)”
Anna Rosensweig
Journal Article
“Whose Resistance Theory?”
Spring 2023
February 24, 2023
Jacob Carter
Seminar Paper
“A Marble, a Tack, and Then: Swallow’s Close-Ups and Collections”
Paul Duro
Reading Discussion
Selected Texts: Critique of the Power of Judgement, Immanuel Kant; “The Origin of the Work of Art,” Martin Heidegger
March 17, 2023
Catalina Segu Jensen
Art Project
“Untitled”
Jamey Keeton
Conference Paper for Comics and Popular Art Conference
Title: “Images of Homeland and Utopia in Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X
Fall 2022
September 30, 2022
Daly Arnett
Seminar Paper
“Forward Looking FLIR: Militarized Subjectivity & the Weaponized Gaze”
Jason Middleton
Journal Article
“The Protective Gaze and the Ideology of the Endangered Child”
November 4, 2022
Joan Saab
Book Manuscript
Tales from the Crypt: Vincent Price and American Visual Culture
Malaika Sutter
Dissertation Chapter
“A Textile Language: (In)Visible Resistance in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (1996) and Elaine Reichek’s When This You See… (1996-1999)
December 2, 2022
Elisabeth Genter Montevecchio
Course Syllabus for Genesee Community College [via REJI]
“ART 103: Western Art History 1”
Julia Tulke
Dissertation Chapter
“Gestures of Contamination”
December 9, 2022
Taryn Ely
Dissertation Chapter
“Recording Pathologies: Reflexive Networks of Psychosocial Disability in the Films of Anne Charlotte Robertson and Jennifer Reeves”
Nader Sayadi
Book Proposal
The Fabric of Kashan: City and Architecture of Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Iran
Spring 2022
March 3, 2022
Peter Murphy
Conference Presentation for College Art Association
“Black and Queer, Queer and Black: The Collage of Jonathan Lyndon Chase”
Anna Rosensweig
Book Project Draft
“The July Monarchy Goes to Limoges: Remaking the Corps Mystique for the Nineteenth Century”
March 25, 2022
Janet Berlo
Book Manuscript Draft
Not Native American Art? Replication, Misrepresentation, and Other Vexed Identities
Mimi Cheng
Conference Presentation for IFA Frick Symposium
“Charting a Cartographic Impulse: Art, Science, and Technology in a German Colony”
April 28, 2022
Danielle Genevro
Seminar Paper
“Lacan on TV: Transmission and Psychoanalysis”
James Rosenow
Book Proposal
Experimental Depression–The Fall and Rise of the American Avant Garde Film