Alumni

Patrick Ellis

PhD 2017

Dissertation Title: “Aeroscopics: Spectacles of the Bird’s-Eye View”

Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Tampa

Patrick Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tampa. He is a historian of film and media, with a special interest in how these subjects interact with the histories of cartography, medicine, science and technology. He is the author of ...

Kris Fallon

PhD 2013

Dissertation: “Where Truth Lies: Political Documentary Film & Digital Media, 2000-2010”

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Digital Media, University of California, Davis

Kris Fallon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema & Digital Media at UC Davis where he was also a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures. He completed his PhD in Film and Media with a Designated Emphasis in New Media in 2013.

Fallon’s work analyzes the documentary impulse across a range of sites, from...

Kaitlin Clifton Forcier

PhD 2022

Dissertation: “The Infinite Image: Digital Media’s Boundless Aesthetic”

Kaitlin Clifton Forcier received her PhD from the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley in 2022, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. She researches and teaches on the history and theory of screen media, with a focus on the intersections of computation, popular media, and film and video art. Her dissertation, “The Infinite Image: Digital Media’s Boundless Aesthetic” analyzes iteration and endlessness in digital media, from the 1960s to today. These continually unfolding...

Norman Gendelman

PhD 2022

Dissertation: “Coming Home: The Western, Media, and Masculinity”

Elisa Giardina Papa

PhD 2023

Dissertation: "The Incomputable Image: Untraining AI"

Elisa Giardina Papa is an Italian artist whose work investigates gender, sexuality, care and labor in relation to neoliberal capitalism and the borders of Global South. Her work has been exhibited and screened at MoMA (New York), Whitney Museum [Sunrise/Sunset Commission], Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, Unofficial Internet Pavilion of 54th Venice Biennial, XVI Quadriennale di Roma, rhizome.org [...

Christopher Goetz

PhD 2016

Dissertation: “At Home Everywhere: Empowerment Fantasies in the Domestication of Videogames”

Assistant Professor, Department of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa

Christopher Goetz completed his Ph.D. in Film & Media at Berkeley in 2016. He is currently Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa.

Chris’s first book project, The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment, is currently under contract at Rutgers University Press. His published...

Katherine Guerra

PhD 2022

Laura Horak

PhD 2011

Dissertation: “Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women and the Legitimation of American Silent Cinema”

Associate Professor of Film Studies, Carleton University

Laura Horak completed her Ph.D. in Film & Media at Berkeley in 2011. She is now Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Ontario, after a three-year postdoc at Stockholm University.

She is the author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Rutgers UP, 2016) and co-...

Tung-Hui Hu

PhD 2009

Dissertation: “Seeing Emptiness: Berlin, Nevada, and the Space of New Media”

Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan

Tung-Hui Hu is a writer and a scholar of digital culture. He earned his PhD in Rhetoric – Film Studies at UC Berkeley in 2009 and joined the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor later that year. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan and a faculty member in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program,

As an academic, Hu is the author of A Prehistory of the...

Julia Irwin

PhD 2024

 Dissertation: "Patterning Recognition: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Perception in the Long Twentieth Century"

Julia Irwin, PhD 2024 Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Her dissertation is a conceptual history of artificial intelligence, with a focus on its applications to surveillance in 20th-century U.S. military and industrial institutions. Offering a historiographic lens through which to address contemporary...