Graduate Student

Morgan Jennings is a PhD candidate in Film & Media. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from Kalamazoo College and an M.A. in film studies from the department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Rosalie received her BA in Radio/Film/TV and Comparative Literature from Northwestern University and an MA in Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. She works on Chinese language cinema and media, focusing on how medium transformation reveals (re)conceptualization of environment, elements, and infrastructure. Other research interests include philosophy of technology, media archaeology, and Sino-Korea cultural exchanges. Besides academia, she writes and directs short films.

Nita studies the development of convention in motion pictures alongside the history of film formats. She is interested in how material contingency shaped the limits for expression, the identification of the spectator, and the articulation of social norms in moving image practices. Her current research centers on the composition of the plastic negative support and the linking of cinema, as a set of formal expectations, to a specific context of production and distribution (the studio picture). She holds a BA in Art History from Reed College.