Department of Film & Media UC Berkeley

Bio

Alex Bush is a PhD candidate in Film & Media and a 2017-18 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellow. Her dissertation, “Cold Storage: A Media History of the Glacier,” examines the role played by visual and communications media in bringing nature into a Western mode of historical thought. She has authored articles forthcoming in Cinema Journal and in the collection Unwatchable (ed. Baer, Hennefeld, Horak & Iversen). At Berkeley, she has co-organized conferences on seriality and on expanded notions of media, and worked as chief translator for the sourcebook The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933, (UC Press, 2016). She holds a M.A. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California, and an A.B. in Literature from Harvard University.