Alexandra Alisauskas
aalisaus@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Contemporary art and critical theory, film, space, the body and the senses, food.

Aubrey Anable
anbl@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Film and new media; urban history and theory; cultural studies; feminist theory.

Margot Bouman
Margot_Bouman@yahoo.com

Dissertation: Fata Morgana: Matrices of Video and Site
Advisor: Douglas Crimp

Interests: Video installation art; ontologies of technology; theories of spectrality and the phantasmatic.

Rebecca Burditt
rburditt@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Race and representation in photojournalism, visual culture in the American 1950's.

Lauren Crabtree
cbtr@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Film theory; gender theory; new media; representations of culture and identity in the former Yugoslavia.

Elizabeth Czach
czch@mail.rochester.edu

Dissertation: Careless Rapture: Artifacts and Archives of the Home Movie
Advisor: Sharon Willis

Interests: Independent and experimental film; home movies and small gauge filmmaking; film, media and communications theory; Canadian and Quebecois cinema.

Maia Dauner
mdauner@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Contemporary art, negotiating spaces, queer theory, visual representations of human-machine relations

Lyell Davies
lyelldkayt@earthlink.net

Aviva Dove-Viebahn
adovevie@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Feminist and queer theory, television studies, modern and contemporary art, psychoanalysis, and the intersection of violence and pleasure in popular culture.

Cynthia Foo
cfoo@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Race and globalization; lies, narratives and the construction of identity; contemporary art, photography & video.

Leanne Gilbertson
lgilbert_14611@yahoo.com

Dissertation: Out of Place in Time: Women Performing Art in Warhol's Factory and Judson Memorial Church
Advisor: Douglas Crimp

Interests: Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture, History of the Avant-Garde, Performance and Body Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory

Mara Gladstone
mgsn@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Postcolonial theory, cultural studies, museum studies, contemporary art, Asian and Asian American art and culture.

Kevin Goodman
goodmn@gmail.com

Interests: Media studies, film, sound, trauma.

Dinah Holtzman
dholtzm2@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Bollywood cinema, contemporary art, post-colonial theory and nationalisms, popular culture and audience/reception studies.

Jessica Horton
jessleehorton@yahoo.com

Interests: Contemporary Native American Art

Randy Innes
rain@mail.rochester.edu

Dissertation: On the Limits of the Work of Art: The Fragment in Visual Culture
Advisor: Paul Duro

Interests: Theories of aesthetics and experience; of ontology and the legislation of being; of architecture and nineteenth-century art.

Elizabeth Kalbfleisch
kbsh@mail.rochester.edu

Dissertation: Home and Homeland: Feminist Ground in First Nations Art and Visual Culture
Advisor: Janet Berlo

Interests: First Nations visual culture and contemporary art: Feminist theory, especially transnational feminism.

Kyoung Lae Kang
kkang6@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Film theory, Post-Colonialism and National Cinema, Theorizing Korean Pop Culture and Cinema.

Hossein Khosrowjah
kwja@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: National cinemas, in particular, national cinema of Iran; culture and formation of national identity; Orientalism; documentary cinema; theories of film sound; narrative theories.

Gloria Kim
gloriakim.cs@gmail.com

Interests: National documentary cinema, especially public hygiene films; photographic theory; urban planning and the politics of space; cinematic representations of urban space; modern and contemporary art & architecture.

Yuichiro Kugo
ykugo@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Modern and contemporary art, and critical theory.

Sohl Lee
sohl.lee@gmail.com

Interests: The institutionalization of global culture.

Godfre Leung
gleung@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: 20th century conceptual practices, literary theory, art
historiography and the historical avant-garde, d.i.y./punk rock as (neo?) avant-garde.

Nicola Mann
nmann2@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Contemporary art critical theory and practice; issues of dislocation, radicalism and pluralism in 21st century art and culture; shifts in fine art/craft; intermedial constructions.

Lucy Martin
lucy.martin@rochester.edu

Interests: The production and circulation of artists' books..

Akiko Mizoguchi
akikomiz@cg8.so-net.ne.jp

Dissertation: The Construction of Lesbian Sexuality in Contemporary Japan in Relation to Yaoi Fictions and "Gay Boom" Cinema.
Advisor: Douglas Crimp

Interests: Lesbian desire; identity formation; subject as the psychic and the social; versatility and limitation of fantasy; the place where theory meets politics.

Taro Nettleton
taro_nettleton@hotmail.com

Interests: Asian representation; contemporary art; pop culture.

Shota Ogawa
sogawa@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Asian diaspora in terms of social movements and visual culture.

Derya Ozkan
ozkn@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Spatial theory, politics of urban space

Victoria Pass
vpass@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Contemporary Art, race, gender, critiques of museums,
canonicity, appropriation and influence. 

Paula Pinto
paulapinto@hotmail.com

Interests: My interests lie at the crossroad of the social history of photography, advertisement, and popular culture carried through early media and the emergence of the bourgeois domestic interior.

Ryan Randall
rrandal2@mail.rochester.edu

Interests:

Victor M. Rodriguez
vrod@troi.cc.rochester.edu

Dissertation: Mimicry in Latin American Art and the Rhetoric of Modernist Art History
Advisor: Douglas Crimp

Interests: Postcolonial mimicry in Latin American art and the rhetoric of Modernist Latin American art history.

Derek Rushton
drushton@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: History of photography, contemporary art and theory, art and activism

Lucia Sommer
sommerlucia@yahoo.com

Interests: Postcolonial, feminist, and media theory; intersections of digital and biotechnologies, the feminization of labor, and transnational migration; representations of the 'posthuman' and globalization in new media and third cinema; performance; tactical media; recombinant theater.

Claire Sykes
syke@mail.rochester.edu

Dissertation: Being-at-a-loss: Modalities of Experience in the Contemporary Encounter with Art

Interests: Historiography and aesthetic theory; Contemporary Art and Criticism.

Lisa Uddin
ludn@mail.rochester.edu

Dissertation: Breeding Grounds: American Zoos and the Public Display of Endangered Species
Advisor: Joan Saab

Interests: Nature and visual culture; U.S. cultural history, especially the late twentieth century; public sphere theory; popular media; science studies.

Genevieve Waller
gwaller@mail.rochester.edu

Interests: Contemporary art and photography.

Cesare Wright
cesarewr@yahoo.com

Interests: Ethnographic film and globalization.

Bo Zheng
mr.bo.zheng@gmail.com

Interests:Contemporary Chinese art.