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.
e. morris received their BA in English and American Literatures from Middlebury College, followed by an MA in Latin American Studies at UCLA. She works with trans* aesthetic practices emergent across analog, embodied, and digital media, reorienting questions of being and agency vis-à-vis the strictures of gendered violence as a transcultural phenomenon.
Victor earned a B.A. from Columbia University with a major in Film and Media Studies and a minor in Political Science. He has conducted research on the relationship between the political messaging of post-1960 Cuban films and their use of Afro-Cuban music, religion, and language. In graduate school, Victor is excited to further explore militant Latin American film movements’ representation of the Black diaspora, aesthetics of early West African cinema, and video-making as a form of inquiry.
Miles Taylor received his B.A. in English and Modern Culture and Media (MCM) from Brown University. His English degree was focused on creative non-fiction writing. Afterwards, he attended Concordia University in Montreal, where he received a M.A. in Film and Media. His textual focus is on post-1970 Hollywood, New German Cinema, New Journalism, and to a lesser extent, contemporary fiction. Theoretically, he is trained in narratology, theories of the Frankfurt School, and semiotically grounded psychoanalytic film theory. He is currently working on a project exploring...
Allyson Unzicker is a Ph.D. candidate in Film & Media and is a curator of art and film. Her current research focuses on decolonial aesthetics and the affective structures of fatigue and political depression in film and multimedia installations. She has held various curatorial positions at museums and institutions across the greater Los Angeles area, most recently as the Associate Director & Curator of the University Art Galleries, UC Irvine. Her work as a curatorial and research assistant includes contributions to seven of The Getty Center's Pacific Standard Time...
