School of Museum of Fine Arts Tufts Deborah Wojcik
Elizabeth Affuso
Academic Director of Intercollegiate Media Studies, Pitzer College
PhD Critical Studies, Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts, 2011
Dissertation:
"The Sculptural Screen: Spectatorship, Exhibition, and Hollywood in Contemporary Pic/Video Art"
Publications:
Book Review: Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of the Voice and Touch in Postwar Representations of the Child, Lisa Cartwright, Duke University Printing, 2008, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 33.two (Spring 2011).
"'Don't Just Watch It, Live Information technology:' engineering science, corporate partnerships, and The Hills," Jump Cut 51 (Spring 2009).
Fellowships/Awards:
Frank Volpe Endowed Scholarship, 2010-2011, School of Cinematic Arts, Academy of Southern California
George Cukor Scholarship, 2010-2011, Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts, Academy of Southern California
Visual Studies Summer Travel Grant, Summer 2010, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, Academy of Southern California
Emily R. Anderson
Art History
emilyand@usc.edu
Emily R. Anderson is a doctoral candidate in Fine art History and a recipient of the Visual Studies Graduate Document. Her research interests include printed books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings in early on modernistic Europe. For her dissertation, she is looking at Italian books printed on or with non-conventional materials like vellum, blue paper, illuminations, and colored inks. Emily is proposing that the printing printing was used to mechanically reproduce "bespoke books" using these materials while drawing on contemporary visual civilisation. Her projection questions the assumed stability of the book as a purely black-and-white object, and argues that the book was a mutable, distinctive, and ultimately experimental medium in early modern Italian republic. Emily has received support from the Rare Book School, the Decorative Arts Trust, the USC-Huntington Early Modernistic Studies Institute, the Visual Studies Enquiry Constitute, and the USC art history section to consummate research for her dissertation. Before USC, she received her BA in Art History and Archeology at Tufts Academy and her Master'due south in Art History from Southern Methodist University. She has worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and she served as the graduate intern in the Drawings Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Honors and Awards
Bibliography Order of America Scholarship, Rare Book Schoolhouse, 2017
Decorative Arts Trust Summer Research Grant, Decorative Arts Trust, 2017
Visual Studies Summertime Inquiry Grant, Visual Studies Research Institute, 2017
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Academy of Southern California, 2016
Kress-Murphy Foundation Scholarship, California Rare Book School, 2016
Provost Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2014-present
Cullum Research Travel Grant, Southern Methodist Academy, 2012
Meadows Scholar Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, 2011-2013
Anirban Baishya
Assistant Professor,Communication and Media Studies Department, Fordham Academy
Anirban Baishya received his PhD from the Movie theater and Media Studies Division, School of Cinematic Arts. Prior to this he completed an MA and and an MPhil. in Movie theater Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include new media, surveillance and pornography. His Ph.D. dissertation is tentatively titled "Viral Selves: Cellphones, Selfies and the Cocky-fashioning Subject in Contemporary India" and explores the interconnections between digital media and the public sphere in contemporary Republic of india with a shut focus on the selfie every bit an exemplar of the dynamically changing nature of the public sphere.
Honors and Awards
2016 Visual Studies Enquiry Institute Summer Research Award
2016 USC Enquiry Enhancement Fellowship
2013-present Annenberg Ph.D. Fellowship at USC School of Cinematic Arts
Nadya Bair
Assistant Professor of Art History, Hamilton College
PhD Art History, 2016
Book Championship: "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (Academy of California Press, 2020)
Dissertation
"The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Art of Collaboration in Postwar Photojournalism"
My dissertation examined the early history of Magnum Photos, the photographic agency founded in 1947 in New York and Paris by such photographers as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. I demonstrated how Magnum'south editorial aesthetic and penchant for human interest stories – accounts of both extraordinary and ordinary events happening to everyday people – expanded the geographic telescopic of editorial news photography when World War II concluded. I and so tracked how news photography, as an artful and equally a mode of production, migrated into new markets and created a public face up for the feel of tourism and the piece of work of corporations. In the process, I demonstrated Magnum's contribution to inaugurating a culture of unprecedented news image saturation that is more by and large associated with 1960s America. Mine was the start projection to join extensive archival research on Magnum and to situate the cooperative's work within broader changes in the organisation of press photography, as well as the evolving fields of sociology, media studies, and even geography in the first fifteen years after World State of war II. Pivotal to my project was the idea that Magnum's successes resulted not from the private creative genius of its photographers, but from the "Decisive Network" of agency staff, mag editors, dark room developers, book publishers, and museum curators with whom Magnum photographers collaborated on a daily ground.
Honors and Awards
2010-2015 USC Provost Swain
2011 VSGC (Visual Studies Graduate Certificate) Summertime Inquiry Grant
2012 VSGC Summertime Research Grant
2012 STS (Science, Engineering and Society Research Cluster) Summer Research Grant
2013 VSGC Anne Friedberg Prize for Doctoral Research
2014-2015 VSRI (Visual Studies Inquiry Institute) Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2015-2016 ACLS-Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Anirban Baishya Position: Assistant Professor, Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, 2019
Sara Bakerman
Cinema and Media Studies
sara.bakerman@usc.eduSara Bakerman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She previously earned her B.A. with honors in Movie theatre Studies from the Tisch Schoolhouse of the Arts at NYU, and she received her MA in Critical Studies at USC. Her dissertation project is an intermedial, archival history of Hollywood stars as arbiters of pop memory and cultural nostalgia after the Studio Era. Her work is published in Film Quarterly, Celebrity Studies, Picture and History, and Spectator. She currently serves as Banana Editor of the Periodical of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Periodical).
Honors and Awards:
Russell Endowed Fellowship, Academy of Southern California, 2018-2019
Annenberg Travel/Research Award, University of Southern California, 2018
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Society for Movie theater and Media Studies, 2018
Michael Wayne Fellowship for Restoration and Preservation, USC Warner Bros. Archive, 2016-present
Annenberg Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2015-present
Alice Bardan
Instructor, English, Mount Saint Mary's Academy
Dissertation:
"Contemporary European Cinema in a Transnational Perspective: Aftereffects of 1989."
Selected Publications:
"The Tattlers' Tattle: Fake News, Linguistic National Intimacy and New Media in Romania." Popular Advice, x:i-two (2012): 145-57.
"Welcome to Dreamland: The Realist Impulse in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort." New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Picture show half dozen.one (2008): 47-63.
Fellowships/Awards:
2010 Gold Family Graduate Fellowship for Outstanding Students, USC Higher
2009 Summer Research Grant, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, USC College
2008 Graduate Professionalization Initiative Project Honor, USC College 2008 Summer Enquiry Grant, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, USC College
Priyanka Basu
Assistant Professor, Art History, Academy of Minnesota, Morris
PhD Art History, 2010
Dissertation:
"Kunstwissenschaft and the 'Primitive': Excursions in the History of Art History, 1879–1914"
Publications:
Exhibition review of "Grete Marks: When Modern Was Degenerate," Milwaukee Fine art Museum, September 2012–February 2013,The Periodical of Modern Craft seven:1 (March 2014). (forthcoming)
"Ideal and Material Ornament: Rethinking the 'Ancestry' and History of Art,"Journal of Art Historiography 9 (December 2013). (forthcoming)
"Anfänge der Kunst und dice Kunst der Naturvölker. Kunstwissenschaft um 1900," inImage Friction match: Visueller Transfer, "Imagescapes" und Intervisualität in globalen Bild-Kulturen, ed., Martina Baleva, Ingeborg Reichle and Oliver Lerone Schultz (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2012).
Book Review of Elizabeth C. Mansfield, ed., Making Art History: A Changing Subject and its Institutions, caa.reviews (http://caareviews.org), 28 April 2010.
Fellowships/Awards:
2009–2011, Andrew West. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, Center for Avant-garde Report in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Fine art, Washington, D.C.
2009–2010, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service) Inquiry Grant, Germany 2007–2008, Fulbright Fellowship, Frg
2006, University of Southern California, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, Graduate Student Inquiry Grant
Jennifer Black
Associate Professor of History, Misericordia Academy
Dissertation:
"Branding trust: Advertising, trademarks, and the problem of legitimacy in the U.s., 1876—1920"
Selected Publications:
Landmarks in the History of Mechanical Engineering (forthcoming from ASME Press, Jun. 2014).
"Corporate Calling Cards: Ad Merchandise Cards and Logos in the United states of america, 1876-1890." Periodical of American Culture 32, no. 4 (2009): 291-306.
Fellowships/Awards:
2012 Roberta Persinger Foulke Graduate Research Fellowship (USC)
2011 USC History Department Research Award
2010 USC Higher of Arts & Sciences, Summer Dissertation Inquiry & Writing Award
Mark Braude
www.markbraude.com
Spring 2020 Visiting Boyfriend at the American Library in Paris
PhD History, 2013
Dissertation:
"Spinning Wheels: Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Media in Monaco, 1855-1956"
Publications:
The Invisible Emperor (Penguin Printing, 2018)
Making Monte Carlo (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
Fellowships/Awards:
2017-2018 Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Edward T. Gargan Prize, Western Society for French History
Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant
USC College Doctoral Fellowship
Jessica D. Brier
Deknatel Curatorial Boyfriend in Photography - Frances Lehman Loeb Art Middle, Vassar College
Dissertation
"Typophoto and the Reinvention of Photography in Weimar Federal republic of germany"
This dissertation explored how and why photomontage became a centrally important tool for manipulating course, space, perception, and meaning in graphic pattern. The project considered Weimar-era photography as a language of visual advice debated and developed past advertisers, designers, social scientists, artists, and psychologists. Information technology proposed that the very medium of photography was thoroughly reinvented through advertising design in the 1920s. The project pursued how the photographic halftone transformed reading as a visual, cognitive, and interpretive procedure–a process that has the potential to inform our understanding of visual advice through the digital matrix in our own fourth dimension. Formerly a curatorial banana in photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), she has worked on exhibitions including "Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa" (2014); "S Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk" (2012-13); and the retrospective "Francesca Woodman" (2011-12). She holds a BA from New York University and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California Higher of the Arts.
Honors and Awards
Student Travel Grant, Design History Society, 2018
Travel Grant, Central European History Society, 2018
Summertime Research Travel Grant, Visual Studies Enquiry Found, USC, 2015
Wanda Mentum Scholarship, Western Museums Association, 2013
Umayyah Cable
Banana Professor, American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
PhD American Studies and Ethnicity, 2016
Dissertation
Cinematic Activism: Palestinian Cultural Politics in the United states
This projection examined how and why Palestinian movie theater has emerged as a site around which Palestinians in the Us organize their social justice activism and assert their diasporic identities. I argued that the Palestinian-American customs organizes itself around Palestine-themed film festivals as both a process of national identification and a strategy towards a socially only representational praxis, or what I conjecture as "cinematic activism." Through a combination of ethnographic enquiry and media analysis, this project took the controversy around Palestinian cinema screenings in the Boston surface area as a case study through which to sympathise the identitarian, pedagogical, and political work of Palestinian cinema in the U.s.a..
Honors and Awards
2013 Ninfa Sanchez Memorial Award
2013 ASE Summertime Enquiry Grant
2011 USC Middle East Studies Program Language Study Grant
2011 ASE Summer Inquiry Grant
2010-2015 USC Dornsife College Graduate Merit Fellowship
2010 Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Teaching (Border) Summer Fellowship
2009 Special Recognition, The Palestinian Women Enquiry & Documentation Center at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Samantha Carrick
Teacher,High Tech High International, San Diego
Dissertation
"'Each Body Has Its Art': The Unruly Bodies of American Modernism"
My project aims to return the body to the work of modernist verse, as well as to consider the furnishings that such embodied poetics take on understandings of temporality, the visual and dis-orientation. Poetry of the body is necessarily concerned with time and the decay, resilience or the instability of the body in time. Though occasionally critics have intervened into conversations of modernism with more fleshly concerns, these studies have largely focused on fiction and the novel. Modernism's circuitous archive allows me to consider the role of bodies trans-generically with particular accent on the work of what I term embodied poesy and the unruly bodies and poetics in the modernist period.
Honors and Awards
2009-2015 Provost Boyfriend
2013 Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Research Grant
Melissa Mei-Lin Chan
Tenure-rails Assistant Professor, School for Studies in Art and Civilization, Carleton University in Ottawa
PhD E Asian Languages and Cultures, 2019
Melissa Mei-Lin Chan was a USC Mellon Digital Humanities Beau and received her PhD in the Department of Due east Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her Main's in Asian Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara with an accent in Chinese Cinema, Television, and Media Studies. She has also previously interned with China Digital Times aggregating news articles relating to Cathay, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Her dissertation enquiry focuses on how visualizations of the body in performative move in Sinophone sites, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, are forms of linguistic communication when spoken linguistic communication is obstructed past censorship or other factors, such every bit linguistic difference amidst others. Her projection articulates how bodily language in the visual form is a site where counter-narratives to overgeneralizations of ethnic and national identity occur. Melissa is also currently working on a projection that looks at the cultural and cinematic industries of ethnically Han Chinese and other minority groups in Myanmar (Burma). Her publications include, "Postal service-Gild Brides and Methamphetamines: Sinophone Burmeseness in Midi Z's Burma Trilogy" in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, September 2017.
Honors and Awards
2017-2019 USC Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow
2017-2018 USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association Scholarship
2017, 2016 USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Research Grant
2015 Strange Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Taiwan)
2015 Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant
2013-2014 Bitzer Family unit Fellowship
2013 Dornsife Doctoral Fellowship
Nadine Chan
Harper-Schmidt Swain and Collegiate Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
PhD Cinema and Media Studies, 2015
Dissertation:
Title:Instructing Unruly Empires: Colonial Educational Film in British Malaya
My dissertation is a cultural history of films as instruments of empire. Through in-depth archival research alongside oral histories and film screenings, I examine how colonial governments utilized films as tools to teach audiences the fundamentals of practiced colonial citizenship. As the site of one of the outset large-scale experiments with films for "native" education, moving picture programs in Malaya initiated new pedagogical schemes throughout the British empire that taught colonial subjects things such as venereal disease prevention, fiscal responsibility, and loyalty to the Democracy. These motion-pictures, which I phone call "colonial educational films," sought to bring various aspects of individual life under colonial rule through visual education. In spite of their prescribed roles as tools of goverenance however, films were also unruly objects that chartered errant paths across international borders and were received in ways that troubled their disciplinary intentions. I argue that films were cultural things-in-motion with multiple social lives that interrupted their "official" trajectories as tools of governance. These contested cinematic spaces enabled Malayan audiences to negotiate their ain understandings of colonial/postcolonial identity.
Honors and Awards:
Oxford Bibliographies Graduate Student Writing Laurels, 2015.
Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2013-2014
Student Writing Laurels (Second), Club for Movie theater and Media Studies (SCMS), 2014
Provost Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2009, 2014
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Research Grant, Academy of Southern California, 2013
fifth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award, University of Southern California, 2013
Eye for Transpacific Studies Research Fellowship, Academy of Southern California, 2012
Visual Studies Graduate Document Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2012
Graduate School Provost Travel Honour, University of Southern California, 2012
Science Engineering and Society Enquiry Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2011
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2011
NUS Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, 2007-2009
President'south Research Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2007
Vice-Chancellor'due south Award, National University of Singapore, 2006
Anugerah Cemerlang Mendaki Award, Yayasan Mendaki, Singapore, 2006
Jih-Fei Cheng
Assistant Professor in the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College
PhD American Studies and Ethnicity, 2015
Dissertation
"Queer Visibilities: Race, Gender, and Viral Ways of Seeing"
Publications: (co-editor)AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (Duke Academy Press, forthcoming 2020)
Fellowships/Awards:
2012, American Studies and Ethnicity Travel Grant, University of Southern California
2011-2012, New Directions Seminar Fellow, Center for Feminist Research University of Southern California
2008-2013, Higher Merit Honour, University of Southern California
2001-2002, Tritia Toyota Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2000-2001, Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
1998-1999, Marx-Marshall Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Scholarship, University of California, San Diego
Catherine Clark
Associate Professor of History and French Studies, MIT
PhD History, 2012
Dissertation:
"Photography as History: Collecting, Narrating, and Preserving Paris, 1870-1970"
Publications:
Paris and the Platitude of History(Oxford University Press, 2018) - Winner of the 2018-2019 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
"'C'était Paris en 1970:' Urbanism, Apprentice Photography, and Photographic History," forthcoming in Études photographiques, 2013.
"Chinese Idols and Religious Art: Questioning Difference in Cérémonies et Coutumes," in The Start Global Vision of Religion: Bernard Picart's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the Earth, edited by Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob and Wijnand Mijnhardt, (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute), 2010.
Fellowships/Awards:
2013, Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award for her essay, "The Vidéothèque de Paris, Archive of the Future."
2011, Grant from the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research, Humboldt Surface area Foundation, California
2009-2010, Bourse Chateaubriand (Dissertation Enquiry Fellowship), French Government
Victoria Davis
Eastward Asian Languages and Cultures
Victoria Davis is working on a dissertation that investigates the style in which the functioning genres and theater-based texts of Nihon's early modern period (1603-1868) engaged with contemporary discourses of mobility and print media. Specifically, Victoria'due south dissertation investigates michiyuki, lyrical travel passages that office as verbal maps of sequentially narrated identify names.
Honors and Awards
Shinso Ito Center Graduate Student Research Award, USC Shinso Ito Eye, 2016, 2017
Foreign Language and Expanse Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Summer 2017
Bitzer Graduate Fellowship, 2016
Inamoto Graduate Fellowship, 2016
Dornsife Doctoral Fellowship, USC, 2016-present
Fulbright Fellows Research Grant (Japan), Japan-U.S. Educational Commission, 2009-2010
Jonathan Dentler
2020-2022 Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Beau at the Université Paris Nanterre and the Université Paris-Diderot
Jonathan Dentler is the 2020-2022 Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Enquiry and Educational activity Fellow at the Université Paris Nanterre and the Université Paris-Diderot. He recently received his Ph.D. from the Department of History and likewise earned a Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. His dissertation, "Wired Images: Visual Telecommunications, News Agencies, and the Invention of the World Motion picture, 1917-1955," examines wire photography services, a type of press system that transmitted news images using radio waves and phone wires. In information technology, he argues that wire photos helped publics effectually the world to visualize the manner in which they had become connected by massive and otherwise invisible infrastructural systems.
Honors/Awards
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship, 2020-2022
Mellon-Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2019-2020
Terra Foundation for American Fine art Summer Residency Fellowship Giverny, 2018
ACE-Nikaido Fellowship in Japanese Studies, 2018
USC Dornsife Graduate School Summer Grant, 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellowship, 2016-2018
USC Dornsife Graduate School Travel and Inquiry Award, 2017
Hagley Archive Exploratory Enquiry Grant, 2017
USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Inquiry Grant, 2015
Lauren Dodds
Research Assistant, Getty Research Institute
Lauren Dodds received her PhD in the department of fine art history and was a recipient of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. Her dissertation, "Collecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. Kress Drove of Italian Fine art," examines the formation, conservation, and ultimate dispersal of the Kress Collection in order to explore questions about collecting, cultural cribbing, conservation, and the place of the Italian Renaissance art in twentieth-century American museums and civic life. Prior to showtime her studies at USC, Dodds graduated summa cum laude from Pepperdine University and completed an M.A. in art history at Southern Methodist University.
Honors and Awards
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2017-2018
Visual Studies Summer Research Grant, USC VSRI, 2014-2017
Lilly Graduate Fellow, Lilly Fellows Programme in Humanities and Art, 2012-2015
Eike Exner
Comparative Literature
eexner@usc.edu
Curtis Fletcher
Manager of the Ahmanson Lab, Academy of Southern California
Matthew Fox-Amato
Assistant Professor, History, University of Idaho
PhD History, 2013
Dissertation:"Exposing Humanity: Slavery, Antislavery, and Early on Photography in America, 1839-1865"
Publications:
Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modernistic Visual Politics in America (Oxford University Press, 2019)
"Enduring Images: How Antebellum Slaves Used Photographs," in the Harvard Peabody Museum Daguerreotype Project, eds. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Deborah Willis, Molly Rogers, and Ilisa Barbash (forthcoming).
Invited Author Interview, Forum on Recent Dissertations, Journal of American History Blog (forthcoming jump 2015)
"An Abolitionist Daguerreotype, 1850," in Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News, eds. Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jason Hill (forthcoming Feb. 2015, Bloomsbury Printing).
"Eyewitnessing and Slavery." Review of Maurie D. McInnis, Slaves Waiting for Auction: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Merchandise. Mutual-identify, Vol. 13, No. 1.five, November 2012.
10 articles in Peter C. Mancall, ed., Encyclopedia of Native American History (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2011).
Fellowships/Awards:
The Zuckerman Prize in American Studies, Dissertation Award, The McNeil Center for Early on American Studies, 2014 (Recipient)
C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, Southern Historical Association, 2014 (Runner-up)
Mellon Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2013
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-2013
Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Enquiry in Original Sources, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2011-2012
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship, American Antiquarian Social club, 2011
Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant, USC Visual Studies Graduate Commission, 2011
Research Fellowship, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the Southward, University of Alabama, 2011Mellon Inquiry Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 2011Research Fellowship, Clements Center-DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 2011
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Scientific discipline Research Council, 2009
Summer Enquiry Fellowship, USC Visual Studies Graduate Committee, 2009
Professionalization Initiative Grant, USC College of Arts and Sciences, 2008
Graduate Fellowship, USC Higher of Arts and Sciences, 2007-2012
College Doctoral Beau, USC College of Arts and Sciences (awarded to 12 graduate students each yr in all USC doctoral programs), 2007-2012
Harvard Higher Enquiry Program Fellowship, Harvard Higher, 2005
John Patterson Traveling Fellowship, Harvard Higher, 2004
Sarah Fried-Gintis
Director of Faculty Diplomacy and Homo Resources, USC Kaufman School of Trip the light fantastic, University of Southern California
Veena Hariharan
Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jason Loma
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Modern and Contemporary Fine art and Visual Civilisation, University of Delaware
PhD Art History, 2011
Dissertation:
"Artist every bit Reporter: The PM News Movie, 1940-1948"
Publications:
Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Film (UC Press, 2018)
Co-editor,Getting the Flick: The Visual Civilisation of the News (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Co-editor, with Elisa Schaar, "American Fine art and Mass Media: Commentaries," with essays by François Brunet, Ursula Frohne, Jason LaFountain, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Michael Lobel, and Richard Meyer, American Art 27.2 (Summer 2013).
"Training a Sensibility: Notes on American Art and Mass Media," with Elisa Schaar, American Fine art 27.ii (Summer 2013), 2-9. Fellowships/Awards:
2014, Tyson Scholars Fellowship, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
2011-13, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Swain in American Fine art at the Institut National d'Histoire de 50'Art, Paris
2009-10, Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Brian Jacobson
Professor of Visual Culture, Caltech
PhD Movie house, 2011
Dissertation:
"Studios Before the System: Architecture, Engineering science, and Early Movie theater"
[winner of the 2013 Gild for Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Accolade]
Publications:
Studios Before the System: Compages, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Infinite (Columbia 2015)
In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Cloth Environments (UC Press, 2020)
"Infrastructure and Intermediality: Network Archaeology at Gaumont'due south Cité Elgé," Amodern: A Journal on Media, Culture, and Poetics (forthcoming, 2013)
"The Black Maria: Pic Studio, Moving picture Technology (Cinema and the History of Technology)," History and Engineering 27.ii (2011), 233-241.
Fellowships/Awards:
Fulbright (France) (2009-2010)
Social Scientific discipline Enquiry Quango, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2009-2010)
Bourse Chateaubriand (declined)
Laura Kalba
Associate Professor of Fine art; Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Chair, Smith Higher
PhD Art History, 2008
Publications:
Colour in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Engineering science, and Art (Penn State Press, 2017)
Awards:
2018 Charles Rufus Morey Prize from the College Fine art Association
2016-17 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
J. Carlos Kase
Acquaintance Professor, Movie Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Katherine Kerrigan
Dissertation:"Cataloguing Critique: Experimental Forms of Documentation in American Art, 1970-1977"
Alison Kozberg
Cinema and Media Studies
kozberg@usc.edu
Peter Labuza
Postdoctoral Young man at the University of Southern California
Dissertation: When A Handshake Meant Something: Lawyers, Bargain Making, and the Emergence of New Hollywood
Peter Labuza is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California, where he also earned his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies. His research explores the legal, financial, and political history of creative industries. His dissertation, "When A Handshake Meant Something: Lawyers, Deal Making, and the Emergence of New Hollywood" traces how new legal professionals and bargain makers reshaped creative labor and fiscal management in Hollywood afterwards World War Two. He is currently working on a history of antitrust lawyers and radicalism in postwar America. Labuza has received numerous fellowships and grants supporting his enquiry from an array of archives and disciplines, including in legal, business, and Jewish history. He has published in The Velvet Light Trap, Mediascape, Movie Quarterly, Sight & Sound, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and has a forthcoming article in Journal of Picture palace and Media Studies. He has published motion picture criticism in Variety, The Village Voice, and Filmmaker Magazine, and hosts The Cinephiliacs podcast.
Fellowships
Endowed Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Southern California (2019)
Graduate Student Writing Honor, "United Arithmetics: Contracts and the Financialization of Executive Labor in the Movement Pic Industry," Gild for Cinema and Media Studies — Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group (2019)
John E. Rovensky Fellow in Business and Economical History, The University of Illinois Foundation (2018)
Summertime Fellowship, Feinstein Center for American Jewish History (2018)
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Grant to Scholars (2018)
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, The Lilly Library at the University of Indiana, Bloomington (2017)
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Research Grant, University of Southern California (2017)
Anca Lasc
Associate Professor of History and Theory of Design, Pratt Institute
PhD Art History, 2012
Dissertation:
"Before Art Nouveau: The Invention, Commercialization, and Display of the Modern Interior in Nineteenth-Century France"
Publications:
Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media , co-edited with Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor, ( Bloomsbury , 2015 )
Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century Home: Modern Art and the Decorative Impulse(Routledge, 2016)
Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail (co-edited with Patricia Lara-Betancourt and Margaret Maile Trivial)
Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France: The Visual Culture of a New Profession(Manchester University Press, 2018)
(co-edited) Architectures of Brandish: Department Stores and Modern Retail (Routledge, 2018).
Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practise of Democratic Interiors (Anca I. Lasc, Deborah Schneiderman, Keena Suh, Karin Tehve, Alexa Griffith Winton, Karyn Zieve, eds.)
Fellowships/Awards:
NEH Summer Constitute Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center (American Cloth Culture: 19th Century New York), Summer 2013
Council of Trustees Presidential Faculty Development Grant for 2012-2013, Shippensburg University, Spring 2013
Center for Faculty Excellence in Scholarship and Instruction (CFEST) Travel Grant, Shippensburg University, 2012-2013
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Aleca Le Blanc
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside
PhD Art History, 2011
Dissertation:"Tropical Modernisms: Fine art and architecture in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s"
Publications:
(co-editor) Making Fine art Concrete: Works from Argentine republic and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (Getty Conservation Institute, 2017)
Department Profile
Ana Lee
Assistant professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia
Dissertation:
"The Shards of China in Brazilian and Cuban Literature and Visual Culture, 1847-1889"
Fellowships/Awards:
USC PhD Merit Fellow
Mellon/Sawyer Seminars Graduate Boyfriend, 2013-2014
Fulbright Award, 2013-2014
Centre for Law, History and Culture , 2012-2013
Center for Transpacific Studies Fellow, 2012-2013
Visual Studies Inquiry Plant Research Grant, 2012-2013
Foreign Languages and Area Studies (declined), 2009-2010
Robin Coste Lewis
USC Writer in Residence
PhD Artistic Writing and Literature
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf, 2015), a poetry collection that traces the representational history of the blackness female figure in Western fine art. Broadly speaking her electric current research focuses on the intersection of text and epitome, peculiarly within the context of early African American print civilization. From lithographs and travel narratives to the Polaroid, her piece of work examines the interconnected print histories of photography and poesy, focusing on how both were used to appoint themes of migration, representations of attending, and black subjectivity. Before attention USC, Lewis received a MFA from New York University in Poesy, a MTS from Harvard University in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature, and BA from Hampshire College in comparative literature and creative writing. She has taught at NYU's MFA plan in Paris, Hunter, Wheaton, and Hampshire Colleges. Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming in the several journals and anthologies, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Academy of American Poets' "Poem-a-24-hour interval," Transition, the Massachusetts Review, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Callaloo and Lambda Literary Review.
Honors and Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2019
Los Angeles Poet Laureate, 2017
National Book Award in Poetry forVoyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf, 2015)
The Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant, Visual Studies Research Institute, USC, 2015
Fellow, The Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities, 2014-to appointment
Provost'southward Fellow, University of Southern California, 2013-to appointment
"Discovery"/Boston Review Prize semi-finalist, 2013
NYU Creative Writing Program, Goldwater Boyfriend, 2011-2013
Cavern Canem Foundation Fellow, 2010-to date
International State of war Poetry Prize Finalist, 2010
Summer Literary Seminars Fellow (Kenya), 2009
Headlands Center for the Arts Artist-in-Residence, 2005
Ragdale Foundation Artist-in-Residence, 2005
Caldera Artists Residency, Artist-in-Residence, 2005
National Rita Dove Poetry Prize Finalist, 2004
Centre for the Integrated Study of the Americas Swain, 1999-2001
Ryan Linkof
Curator at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
PhD History, 2011
Dissertation:
"The Public Eye: Celebrity and Photojournalism in the Making of the British Tabloids, 1904-1938"
Publications:
Public Images: Celebrity, Photojournalism, and the Making of the Tabloid Press (Bloomsbury, 2018)
"Gross Intrusions: Awareness and the Perverse Allure of Scandal Journalism in 1930s British Motion picture," forthcoming in Media History (Winter 2013).
"'These immature men who come downwardly from Oxford and write gossip': Tabloid Gossip, Homosexuality, and the Logic of Revelation in the Interwar Popular Press," in British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives, forthcoming with Manchester University Press, 2013
Fellowships/Awards:
Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellowship in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011-2012
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Scientific discipline Research Council, Summer 2007
Ioana Literat
Assistant Professor of Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design, Teachers Higher, Columbia University
Dissertation:
"Crowdsourced Art: Activating Artistic Participation in Online Spaces"
Fellowships/Awards:
Provost Fellowship
Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Honor
Annie Manion
Luci Marzola
Visiting Banana Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California Irvine
Dissertation
Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Edifice the Studio Arrangement, 1915-1933
My dissertation examines the industrial command of engineering science during the germination of the Hollywood studio organization. It asks what information technology means for a creative business organisation to industrialize in a period well before the invention of the seemingly contradictory notion of "creative industries." By studying the often-ignored technical aspects of motion picture production, from cameras to developer solutions, forth with their inventors, manufacturers, and practitioners, this project will create a new understanding of the industrial organisation that emerged in Hollywood.
Honors and Awards
2014, Baird Lodge Resident Scholars Fellowship, Smithsonian Establishment Libraries
2014, Annenberg Fellowship Travel Laurels, USC Graduate Schoo
l2013, Visual Studies Graduate Works in Progress Enquiry Grant, USC Visual Studies Research Institute
2013, USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, Summer Research Travel Award
2011-2012, Sinatra Scholarship, USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts
Christopher J. McGeorge
Art History
Christopher McGeorge received his PhD from the department of Art History. Christopher researches Victorian stained glass, murals, and public fine art. His dissertation, "Mediums for the Masses: Stained Glass and Murals in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," interrogates the proliferation of big-calibration, site-specific public art projects in the age of speed, mobility, and mechanical reproduction. He examines how stained glass, murals, and the mediums that reproduced them generated public discourses that interrogated who constituted "the public" for art, which mediums were best-suited for addressing this public, and how the public gained access to art.
Honors and Awards:
Research Back up Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2018
USC Graduate School Summer Swain, Summertime 2017
Huntington Library Exchange Fellowship, Linacre College, Oxford & The Huntington Library, July-August 2016
USC Gold Family unit Graduate Fellowship, Summer 2016
Victorian Society in America London Summer School Scholarship, 2016
USC Visual Studies Summer Inquiry Grant, Summertime 2016
Andrew West. Mellon Digital Humanities Ph.D Fellow, 2015-2017
USC Dornsife Doctoral Fellow, 2012-2017
USC Visual Studies Summer Research Grant, Summertime 2014
Fine art History Summer Travel Award, 2014
Selected Participant, Paul Mellon Middle for Studies in British Art Graduate Seminar, "British Print Culture in a Transnational Context, 1700-2014", Summer 2014
Brendan McMahon
Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows, History of Fine art, Academy of Michigan
PhD Art History, 2017
Rachel Middleman
Associate Professor of Art History, Cal Country University, Chico
PhD Art History, 2010
Dissertation:
"A New Eros: Sexuality in Women'southward Art before the Feminist Art Movement" (2010)
Publications:
Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and Sex activity in the 1960s(Academy of California Printing, 2018)
"Anita Steckel's Feminist Montage: Merging Politics, Art, and Life," Woman's Art Journal 34, no. ane (spring/summer 2013), p. 21-29
"A Feminist Advanced: Martha Edelheit's 'Erotic Art' in the 1960s," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift special issue "On the Cusp of Feminism: Women Artists in the Sixties" (accepted for publication)
Fellowships/Awards:
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2009-2010
Leta Ming
Banana Professor, Fine art History, Chaffey College
Dissertation:"Tom Marioni and the Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco (1978–1979)"
Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Assistant Professor, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD Cinema and Media Studies, 2020
Darshana Sreedhar Mini is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Advice Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Supported by the Social Science Research Quango and American Establish of Indian Studies, her piece of work explores precarious media formations such equally low-upkeep films produced in the s Indian state of Kerala, mapping their transnational journeys. Her research interests broadly include feminist media, gender and sexuality, South Asian movie theater, migrant media and media ethnography. She has published in Feminist Media Histories, Bioscope: Due south Asian Screen Studies, South Asian Pop Civilization, Periodical for Ritual Studies, and International Journal for Digital Boob tube.
Honors & Awards:
PhD Achievement Honor, USC, 2020
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Declined), 2020
Postdoctoral Education Fellowship, USC (Declined),2020
Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant, Visual Studies Inquiry Plant, USC, 2019
Thomas W. Simons Junior Young man, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), 2019
Phi Beta Kappa Alumni International Scholarship, 2019
APPA Distinguished Scholar Award, USC, 2019
IDRF Photo/Video Competition, SSRC, 2019
Library Research Accolade, USC, 2019
Mellon International Dissertation Enquiry Fellowship (IDRF), SSRC, 2018
Asia Graduate Educatee Fellowship, NUS, 2018
Women of Colour Leadership Project, National Women's Studies Clan (NWSA), 2018
Claudia Gorban Award for the best student paper, SCMS Audio and Music SIG, 2018
International Pupil Recognition, Graduate Educatee Government, USC, 2018
Summer Enquiry Grant, Visual Studies Inquiry Plant, USC, 2018
Enquiry Enhancement Fellowship, Graduate School, USC, 2017
SCMS Student Writing Award (Third position), 2017
Phi Kappa Phi Pupil Recognition Award, USC
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF), SSRC, 2016
Hanns-Seidel Stiftung-FIGS Fellowship, Freie University, Berlin, 2015
Sonia Misra
Visiting Instructor of Picture show & Media, Franklin and Marshall
Sonia Misra receieved a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at USC School of Cinematic Arts. She received her MA in Cinema Studies at New York University and her BA in Cinema and Media Studies from Wellesley College. Her research interests include queer experimental film and video, postal service-cinema, Virtual Reality, queer temporality, posthumanism, and Deleuzian theory.
Anjali Nath
Banana Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, Center for American Studies and Inquiry, American University of Beirut
Academia.edu Contour
Patricia Nelson
Dissertation:"Crossing Over: Comedy and Lesbian Identity in American Pop Civilization"
Fellowships/Awards:
English Department Briefing Travel Accolade. University of Southern California, 2011, 2012, 2014
Visual Studies Summer Research Grant. University of Southern California, 2013
Louise Kerckhoff Prize in Gender Studies. University of Southern California, 2012
English Department Summertime Fellowship. University of Southern California, 2012
Higher Doctoral Fellowship. University of Southern California, 2010-2015
Younjung Oh
Visiting Banana Professor of Eastward Asian Art, History of Fine art and Architecture, University of Oregon
Dissertation:
"Art into the Everyday Life: The Section Store as a Conveyor of Culture in Mod Japan"
Maria Francesca Piazzoni
Banana Professor, Landscape and Urban Design,Academy of Liverpool
Publications:
The Real False: Authenticity and the Production of Space(Fordham University Press, 2018)
Maria Francesca received a PhD in Urban Planning at the Price School of Public Policy. Her dissertation looks at the Bangladeshi street vendors of Rome and combines discourses on multiculturalism and the right to the city. Maria analyses how the visibility that the immigrant vendors acquire in different spaces of the city shapes the conflicts, encounters, and convivial relationships between the Bangladeshis, local actors, and the tourists of Rome. Maria Francesca holds a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from IUAV, University of Venice. She likewise received a Masters of Architecture Summa cum Laude from Sapienza, University of Rome. Earlier arriving at USC, Maria worked in Shanghai, at the Preservation Department of the Tongji University, Los Angeles, where she served as researcher for the Urban Humanities (Mellon) Initiative at UCLA, and in Vilnius, where she joined the Gedimino Technical University every bit fellow researcher.
Meredith Drake Reitan
Acquaintance Dean in the Graduate School at the University of Southern California and an adjunct professor in USC's Price Schoolhouse of Public Policy
Dissertation:
"Rhetoric of representation: Planning Los Angeles' borough space, 1909—2009"
Selected Publications:
"Regulating Visual Bane", "The City as Textbook", "Tinker Toy Urbanism", "The Politics of Food and Civilization", "Planning a Great Civic Park" and "Finding Public Space on Individual Beaches" (2012), Planning Los Angeles, David C. Sloane, Editor, APA Planners Press, Chicago
"Historic Preservation Overlay Zones in Los Angeles: Progressive Tools for Neighborhood Development?" (2007), Hoffnungsträger Zivilgesellschaft? Governance, Nonprofits und Stadtentwicklung in den Metropolenregionen der The states, Uwe Altrock, Heike Hoffmann, Barbara Schönig, Editors Reihe Planungsrundschau, Berlin
Fellowships/Awards:
ACSP Student Scholar'south Travel Honour Jun 2010
Haynes Award, Historical Society of Southern California May 2010
University Outstanding Instruction Assistant Award April 2010
Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye
Curator of Education and Academic Outreach at the Yale Center for British Art
PhD Fine art History, 2014
Publications:
Small-Groovy Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas (Yale University Art Gallery, 2017)
Dissertation:
"Contemporary Pre-Columbian"
Fellowships/Awards:
USC Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Fall 2013-Spring 2014Del Amo Foundation Research Accolade, Summer 2012
Resisting the Path to Genocide Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2012
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summertime Fellowship, Summer 2011
Dean Joan Metcalf Schaefer Scholarship, 2009-2010 and 2011-2012
Jewel Gala – Friends of Fine Arts Fellowship, Summer 2009
Aaron Rich
Cinema and Media Studies
Aaron Rich received his PhD in the division of Cinema and Media Studies in USC's School of Cinematic Arts and a Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. His dissertation, "The Hollywood Research Library: Visual Knowledge in the Commonwealth of Images," focuses on the libraries found in every flick studio that would get together images of places, times, and people to guide studio craft departments, including costumes, sets, hair and makeup, and props, in their conceivable recreations of the world. His work investigates how these film collections emerge from and chronicle to a Western visual tradition that examined visual and fabric culture that began in the nineteenth century. He is interested in the history of picture collections in individual and public libraries, connoisseurship, watches and horology, and the commercial trade in Hollywood props and costumes.
Honors and Awards
Mellon USC Humanities in the Digital World PhD Fellowship, 2018-2020
Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant, VSGC, 2017
Mellon-Sawyer Graduate Fellowship in Visual History, 2016-2017
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Research Grant, 2016
Michael Wayne Movie Preservation and Restoration Fund Award, Warner Bros. Athenaeum, University of Southern California, 2015-2016
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Research Grant, 2015
Casey Riffel
Critical Studies
riffel@usc.edu
Casey Riffel is a PhD candidate in Critical Studies at the Academy of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His dissertation, titled "A Line of Escape: Animation, Animals, Modernity," explores the representation of animals in early animation in lodge to re-conjecture the medium's relationship to concepts of life and motility. His inquiry and teaching interests include animal studies, early movie house and proto-cinematic devices, the history and theory of animation, history of science, and queer affect.
Honors and Awards
Harold Lloyd Memorial Scholarship, USC School of Cinematic Arts
George Cukor Scholarship, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Student Writing Award, second place
USC Graduate School Professionalization Grant
Summer Research Grant, USC VRSI
Social Science Enquiry Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
Strange Language and Surface area Studies Summer Fellowship
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United Country Department of Instruction
Bella Honess Roe
Programme Director for Film Studies, University of Surrey: Schoolhouse of Arts, Film Studies Programme
Dissertation:
"Animating documentary"
Selected Publications:
Animated Documentary. Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
'Uncanny Indexes: Rotoshopped interviews as documentary,' Blitheness: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol 7.1 (March, 2012) pp 26 - 38 Fellowships/Awards:
Shortlisted for All-time Commodity in a Refereed Journal, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards 2012 (for 'Absence, Excess and Epistemological Expansion: Towards a framework for the study of animated documentary,' Blitheness: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol. 6.three (November, 2011) pp 215 – 230))
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Us School of Cinematic Arts, Mary Pickford Scholarship, 2005-2006, 2008-2009
Jennifer Rosales
Director of Enquiry and Evaluation at the Center for Social Justice, Georgetown
Amanda Grand. Ruud
English
ruud@usc.edu
Amanda Ruud is Provost's Boyfriend and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and a current Ph.D. Fellow with the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Found. Her work focuses on early modern English drama, operation studies, visual studies, poetics, and archival theory. Her dissertation, "Shakespeare's Speaking Pictures" looks at the strange silences, pauses, and moments of stillness in Shakespearean theater—arguing that the playwright'southward dramatic art might be understood every bit a visual fine art—and the afterlife of those moments in various forms from the photograph to silent pic. Her dissertation argues that the way individuals looked at images in the early modern period should shape the way we read and view Shakespeare. By placing Shakespeare'southward images in dialogue with other early modern art forms—including emblem books, perspective paintings, and prints in the vanitas tradition—"Shakespeare'south Speaking Pictures" offers new readings of Shakespeare's plays equally interventions in a historical debate over the moral ambiguities of looking. Enquiry Interests: Early Modern Drama, Performance, Embodiment, Adaptation, and Visual Culture.
Honors and Awards
2013-2018, USC Provost's Fellow
2016-2017, USC-Huntington Early on Modern Studies Institute Ph.D. Beau
2015, VSGC Summer Research Grant
2015, USC Graduate School Research Travel Grant
2016, VSGC Summertime Research Grant
Sophia Wagner Serrano
Movie theatre and Media Studies
wagnerse@usc.edu
Lacey Schauwecker
Comparative Studies in Literature and Civilization
lschauwe@usc.edu
Equally a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, Lacey studies the intersection of aesthetics and politics within Latin America and the U.S. She has adult enquiry projects on testimonio, documentary film, and street trip the light fantastic movements. Her dissertation, "Anti-Gritos: Screaming as Witnessing in Postwar Primal America," investigates screaming as a recurrent trope throughout literature, pic, photography and functioning art virtually the Central American diaspora.
Honors and Awards:
USC Shoah Foundation Research Fellowship, 6/2016-viii/2016
USC Graduate Schoolhouse Endowed Fellowship, 2015-2016
UT Austin Casa Herrera Inquiry Fellowship, half dozen/2015-eight/2015
USC Graduate School Research Enhancement Fellowship, 2014-2015
Jacqueline Beland Sheean
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Section of World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah
PhD Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, 2020
Dissertation: "Dictatorial Duress: A Cinematic Mapping of Madrid from Dictatorship to Democracy"
Selected publications:
"Monument and Retention: The Valley of the Fallen and its Cultural Archive" Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 23, pp. 9-32 (2019).
"A (New) Specter Haunts Europe: The Political Legibility of Spain'south Hologram Protests." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Vol. 19.4, pp. 465-480 (2018).
"Cornball Materialism: Crisis and Memory in Mercedes Álvarez's Mercado de futuros." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Vol. 52.2, pp. 327-349 (2018).
"Intersections in Madrid'south Periphery: Cinematic Cruising in Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino (1972)," In Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures, eds. Affections Daniel Matos, Paula J. Massood, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik. Duke Academy Printing, pp. 109-130. (2021).
Awards:
2019-2020 USC Graduate School Terminal Year Fellowship
2020 Modern Language Association Travel Grant
2019 USC Graduate School Summertime Research Award
2017-2018 USC Russell Endowed Fellowship
2016-2017 USC Provost Mentored Teaching Fellowship
2016, 2018 Visual Studies Research Institute Summertime Research Honour
2013-2016, 2018-2019 USC Dornsife Doctoral Fellowship
2014, 2015, 2017 Del Amo Foundation Research Award
Stefanie Snider
Assistant Professor, Art History, Ferris State University
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Stephanie Sparling Williams
Associate Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Dissertation:
Speaking Out of Turn: Race, Gender, and Straight Address in American Art Museums
Honors/Fellowships/Awards:
2016, John Walsh Postdoctoral Fellowship
2015, Imagining America PAGE (Publicly Agile Graduate Education) Co-Directorship
2015, Aarhus University International PhD Seminar (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art)
2015, ASE Summer Research Grant
2014, Imaging American PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Instruction) Fellowship
2014, Visual Studies Institute Summer Enquiry Grant
2012, Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Instruction (EDGE) Summer Fellowship
2011, USC Doctoral Fellowship
Lida Mary Sunderland
Jia Tan
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies,Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Amy Von Lintel
Associate Professor of Fine art History Doris Alexander Endowed Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts Manager of the Gender Studies Program, Due west Texas A&M Academy
PhD Fine art History, 2010
Dissertation:"Surveying the Field: The Popular Origins of Art History in Nineteenth-‐Century Britain and France"
Selected Publications:
Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916-1918 (Radius, 2016)
Robert Smithson in Texas, co-authored with Leigh Arnold(Estate of Robert Smithson and James Cohan Gallery, 2015)
"The Clara Waters Papers and the Audiences of Pop Art History," Princeton University Library Chronicle (2014).
"A Touching Experience: The Remnant Trust at WTAMU," The Remnant Review, (2014).
"Wood Engravings, 'The Marvellous Spread of Illustrated Publications,' and the History of Art," Modernism/modernity. Vol. 19, no. iii (2012), 515-‐42.
Fellowships/Awards:
Faculty-‐Led Study Away Site Visit Grant, WTAMU, 2012, $3000
Friends of the Princeton Academy Library, Visiting Scholar Research Grant, Summertime 2012, $3400
Faculty Evolution Inquiry Grant, WTAMU, Summer 2011, $1500
Kay Wells
Associate Professor of Fine art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PhD Art History, 2014
Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York (Yale University Press, 2019)
Dissertation
"Modernism's Other Tableau: Tapestry in the Twentieth Century."
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Stephanie Sparling Williams
Banana Curator at the Addison Gallery of American Art, and Visiting Scholar, Phillips Andover
PhD American Studies and Ethnicity, 2016
Genevieve Yue
Assistant Professor of Culture and Media; Program Director and Departmental Faculty Counselor for Screen Studies, The New Schoolhouse
PhD Disquisitional Studies, Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts, 2012
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Dissertation:
"Medusan Eyes: Motion-picture show, Feminism, and the Forbidden Epitome"
Selected Publications:
"Pilus, Horror, and the Generic Image: Nakata Hideo's Ringu," Ecce 3 (Bound 2012)
"Two Sleeping Beauties," Film Quarterly 65 no. 3 (Leap 2012)
"Lost At Sea: Intermedial Encounters in the Films of Janie Geiser," Grey Room 36 (Summer 2009) Fellowships/Awards:
Juror, The Milwaukee Undercover Film Festival (May 3–5, 2013)
Juror, invited, Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities Student Film Festival (2012)
Film Comment Critics' Poll (2008–nowadays), including End of the Decade and Finish of the Decade for Avant-Garde Film and Video (2010)
Maria Zalewska
Postdoctoral fellow, Picture palace and Media Studies, USC
Maria Zalewska is a PhD fellow at USC School of Cinematic Arts, too equally a member of the Visual Studies Graduate Document program. Her research groundwork is in expanse studies (Grand.Phil. in Russian and East European Studies, Academy of Oxford), too as in picture and humanities (B.A. and Thousand.A. in Humanities, San Francisco Country University). Her inquiry interests include cinematic representations of the Holocaust in post-1989 Europe; national and transnational modes and media of memorialization; politics of technologized memory; place and space in cinema; history as picture show/moving picture equally history; political economy of film.
Honors and Awards:
2013-present Annenberg Doctoral Fellowship; USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts
2016-xviii Andrew Due west. Mellon Digital Humanities Doctoral Fellowship
2016-xviii Graduate School Russell Endowed Doctoral Fellowship; USC (declined)
2017 Oxford Internet Institute's (OII) Summer Doctoral Plan Fellowship; University of Oxford
2017 Graduate Research Fellowship; Heart for Avant-garde Genocide Research; USC Shoah Foundation
2017 Graduate Document in Digital Media and Culture; Media Arts+Practice, USC
2016 Visual Studies Graduate Certificate; Visual Studies Research Institute, USC
2015 Visual Studies Enquiry Institute Summer Fellowship; USC
2011 Graduate Pupil Honor for Distinguished Achievement for G.A. thesis: "History, Motion picture, and Politics of Cultural Memory in Mail-1989 Eastward-Cardinal Europe"; San Francisco Country University
2010-11 Edward B. Kaufmann Graduate Fellowship, San Francisco State University
2008 St. Edmund Hall Summer Research Laurels, Academy of Oxford
Sandra Zalman
Associate Professor and Program Director of Art History, University of Houston
PhD Art History, 2008
Publications:
Consuming Surrealism in American Civilization: Dissident Modernism (Routledge, 2016 )
Lin Zhang
Banana Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of New Hampshire
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