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Hannah Airriess
East Asian cinemas, Japanese film and cultural theory, media theory, technologies of travel, theories and histories of labor and work, global melodrama
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Harry Burson
7403 Dwinelle
Thursday 3:30-5:30PM
sound studies, media archaeology, stereophony, immersion, virtual reality, new media, sound artBio
Harry Burson is a PhD candidate in Film & Media with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at UC Berkeley. He works in the areas of film and media theory, sound studies, and media archaeology. His dissertation, “The World in Stereo: Sound,... More
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Kaitlin Clifton Forcier
Contemporary art, Video art, Digital media, Computational media, Media theory, New media,Bio
Kaitlin Clifton Forcier is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Her research addresses looping and iteration in moving image art from the 1960s to the present. The loop, a central concept in computer programming languages,... More
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Lisa Jacobson
Remote (please email for meeting link)
M 1-3 pm
Television, history and memory, seriality, Cold War, media theory, new mediaBio
Lisa Wells Jacobson is a PhD candidate in Film & Media focusing on contemporary American and German film and television. Her dissertation, “Spy Craft: Analog Espionage in The Americans,” investigates the show’s nostalgia for a distinctly pre-digital kind of careful, painstaking effort... More
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Tory Jeffay
7403 Dwinelle
Thursday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
documentary, new media, media theory, surveillanceBio
Tory Jeffay is a PhD student in Film & Media. She is interested in the politics and aesthetics of nonfiction filmmaking, technologies of digital film production, and surveillant uses of digital media. She holds a B.A. in Film Studies from Yale University.... More
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Renée Pastel
7403 Dwinelle
Tuesday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm and Thursday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
film and neuroscience, new/digital media, representations of war, memory and film, media politics and culture, film theory, television
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Alina Predescu is a PhD candidate in Film & Media working on questions of ethics and aesthetics in documentary and nonfiction film. Her research explores concepts of ethnographic representation in nonfiction film, forms of perfomativity present in documentary film, and the interview... More
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Jessica Ruffin
jessica.ruffin[at]berkeley.edu
media philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, critical theory, media archaeology, spectatorship, 'pre-cinema', early cinema, avant-garde, mysticism, temporality, restorationBio
Jessica Ruffin is a PhD candidate in Film & Media, with designated emphasis in Critical Theory. She holds an MA in German Literature and Culture from UC Berkeley (2018) as well as an MA in Humanities from University of Chicago (2008). Her... More
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Diana Ruíz
borders, migration, surveillance, critical race theory, epistemic violence, anticolonial aestheticsBio
Diana Flores Ruiz is a PhD candidate in Film & Media and holds a B.A. from Duke University in Women’s Studies and Arts of the Moving Image. Her dissertation research on the U.S.-Mexico border investigates developments in epistemic seeing across visual technologies,... More
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Althea Wasow
silent film, crime and social control, theories of racial and sexual difference, critical theory, Black cultural production, experimental and avant-garde cinema, media archeology, critical carceral studiesBio
Althea Wasow is a 2020–21 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow completing her PhD in Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation analyzes the ways in which the emerging institutions of modern policing and motion pictures corroborated and subverted one another’s projects in... More
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Lida Zeitlin Wu
Color technologies, media theory, new/digital media, philosophies of perception and the senses, global consumer culture
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Lida Zeitlin Wu is a PhD candidate in Film & Media. She has an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and a BA from the University of Chicago in Russian Literature and Visual Art. Her dissertation, “Seeing By Numbers: Color Systems... More
