Associate 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 an Associate Professor of Film and Media & East Asian Languages and Cultures, 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 book Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) received an honorable mention for the Modernist...
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’s book, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023), moves across multiple histories and geographies, artistic mediums and forms—from nineteenth-century painting and early cinema, to contemporary text-based works, video installations, and digital art—in order to inaugurate a new method for interpretation, an ante-formalism, which demonstrates...
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; racialization in relation to labour and technology; the visual and sensory culture of digital media; debates on form and aesthetics across theories of anti-colonialism and race; and questions of sexuality, cinematic performance, and embodiment.
He is currently at work on a book project entitled Wondrous Nights: Global Cinema and the Nocturnal Sensorium that explores nighttime as a conceptual and sensory threshold across...
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...
Professor of Film & Media, Professor of Scandinavian Studies
Much of Mark Sandberg’s research has to date dealt mostly with late nineteenth-century visual culture and silent film as a medium. Other interests in Scandinavian cinema history and auteurs (Sjöstrom, Stiller, Dreyer, Bergman, von Trier) and contemporary serial television. He regularly teaches undergraduate courses on Film History, Silent Film Comedy, Serial Television, and Scandinavian auteurs. Recent graduate seminars have included topics such as Film Historiography, Pre-Cinema/Para-Cinema, and Cinema and Architecture. His current Film & Media research includes projects on the...
Nicole Starosielski conducts research on global internet and media distribution, communications infrastructures ranging from data centers to undersea cables, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions. Starosielski is author or co-editor of over thirty articles and five books on media, infrastructure, and environments, including: The Undersea Network (2015), Media Hot and Cold(2021), ...
Kristen Whissel’s research focuses on cinema and technological change, silent cinema and modernity, digital cinema, visual effects, and the history and theory of the stereoscope and 3D cinema. She teaches courses on early cinema, film historiography, cinema and digital technologies, cinema and media in transition, the theory and history of special/visual effects, modernity and post-modernity, as well genre courses on film comedy, melodrama, and the woman’s film. She is the author of Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema (Duke University Press...
