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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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Eliot Bessette is a PhD candidate in Film & Media. His dissertation examines the philosophical relationship of fear and thought elicited by horror films and theatrical haunted house attractions, or “haunts.” He is also a staff writer for Haunting.net, where he contributes reviews and analyses... More
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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. He is interested in immersive media technologies, histories of stereophonic sound, virtual reality, and sound art. He holds an M.A. in Film and Media from... More
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Kaitlin Clifton Forcier
Media theory, New media, Contemporary art, Video art, Digital media, Computational mediaBio
KC Forcier is a PhD candidate in Film & Media. She researches moving images at the intersection of contemporary art and computational media. Her dissertation focuses on the technological loop in moving image culture to map shifting notions of temporality in the... More
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Lisa Jacobson
7403 Dwinelle
Wednesday and Friday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Television (particularly American and German), history and memory, seriality, media theory, new mediaBio
Lisa Wells Jacobson is a PhD candidate in Film & Media working on contemporary American, German, and Russian film and television. Her dissertation, “History On Demand: The Cold War as Serial Television,” examines how recent Cold War TV dramas locate the origin... 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, spectatorship, aesthetics, intellectual history, critical theory, ethics, 'pre-cinema', early cinema, avant-garde, mysticism, temporalityBio
Jessica Ruffin is a PhD Candidate in Film & Media, with a 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).... 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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Lida Zeitlin Wu is a PhD candidate in Film & Media. Her dissertation, “Seeing By Numbers: Color Systems and the Digitization of Perception,” traces how color systems—diagrams and models that attempt to encompass the full range of human color vision—came to play... More
