Nicholas Baer’s work examines film and digital media in relation to vital traditions of modern thought, with an emphasis on aesthetics, critical theory, and the philosophy of history. His research and teaching interests include film theory and historiography, the Frankfurt School, media theory and archaeology, the philosophy of technology, and psychoanalysis. At Berkeley, he holds a joint appointment with the Department of German and is affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory, Program in Dutch Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Berkeley Center for New Media, and Center for Science...
Professor of Film and Media; Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies
Weihong Bao is Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies and a Professor of Film and Media, UC Berkeley. She has published widely on comparative media history and theory, media and environment, early cinema, war and modernity, affect theory, propaganda theory and practice, and Chinese language cinema of all periods and regions. Her first book Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 (University of...
Associate Professor of Film & Media, Affiliated Faculty in the History of Art
Rizvana Bradley is Associate Professor of Film and Media and Affiliated Faculty in the History of Art and the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Bradley was the 2025 John Grace Memorial Philosopher in Residence at the University of British Columbia. She was also the 2023–24 Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Professor of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media. Her work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno (Cia das Letras, 2012) is a study of 19th Century photography in Brasil in its relationship to modern state formation, nationalism, modernization and race. The second...
Iggy Cortez is a scholar of world cinema and contemporary art whose research and teaching are broadly concerned with diasporic thought and visual culture; epistemologies of the global; the visual and sensory dimensions of digital media; minoritarian aesthetics; cinema's relation to other media; and questions of sexuality, cinematic performance, and embodiment.
He is currently at work on a book project entitled Nights on Earth: World Cinema and the Nocturnal Sensorium that explores nighttime as a conceptual and sensory threshold across recent world cinema. Through a global...
Jacob Gaboury works in the areas of digital media, visual culture, media archaeology, and queer theory. His teaching and research interests include 20th century histories of technology and computation, queer and feminist science and technology studies, computer graphics and digital game studies, and the intersection of contemporary art and technology. His forthcoming book, titled Image Objects (MIT Press), offers a material history of early computer graphics in the United States told through a set of five technical objects that shape and structure the production of most all contemporary...
Katerina Korola is an art historian and media scholar whose work explores the history of photography, film, and modernist aesthetics through an ecological lens. She is currently completing her first monograph, Picturing the Air: Photography and the Industrial Atmosphere, which tells a history of air pollution as a photographic problem. An excerpt of this project has appeared in Representations as “The Air of Objectivity: AlbertRenger-Patzsch and the Photography of Industry” and received an Emerging Scholars Publication Prize from the Historians of German, Scandinavian,...
