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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 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
7403 Dwinelle
Television (particularly American and German), history and memory, seriality, 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, currently titled “The Small, Slow, Cold War of The Americans,” takes FX’s The Americans (2013-2018) as its primary case study, identifying... 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, 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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Lida Zeitlin Wu
Color, media theory, new media, philosophies of perception, visual culture and politics, television
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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
