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Graduate Students in Visual & Cultural Studies
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
Dissertation Title: Digital Decay: New Visual Culture and Urban Space
Advisor: Sharon Willis
Interests: digital media history and theory; film history and theory; media
studies; urban history and theory; popular culture; cultural studies; feminist
theory
Rebecca Burditt
rburditt@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: race and representation in photojournalism, visual culture in the American 1950's
Ryan Conrath
ryanconrath@gmail.com
Interests: The representation of suicide in film, literature and photography; contemporary german photography; the american structural filmmakers; Maurice Blanchot; Youtube; violence; literary theory.
Lauren
Crabtree
cbtr@mail.rochester.edu
Interests:
film theory; gender theory; new media; representations of culture
and identity in the former Yugoslavia
Maia Dauner
mdauner@mail.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: "Resisting Multiculturalism: Strategies for Ambivalent Identity in
The Performance Art of Coco Fusco, James Luna and Guillermo Gómez-Peña"
Advisor: Janet Berlo
Interests: contemporary art, performance art, post-colonial theory
Lyell
Davies
lyelldkayt@earthlink.net
Interests:
post-colonial studies; film/video production.
Aviva
Dove-Viebahn
adovevie@mail.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: "Looking for Pleasure: Spectatorship, Art and Desire in a Televisual Age"
Advisor: Joan Saab
Interests: modern and contemporary art, television, pscyhoanalysis, feminist and queer theory, the politics of pleasure, representations of violence and death
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 Title: 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
mgladstone@gmail.com
Dissertation Title: "Sensing the Museum: Contests of Experience in Contemporary Art"
Advisor: Janet Berlo
Interests: modern and contemporary art; sense studies; the museum; globalization; curating; cultural studies; performance, installation and video art
Berin Golonu
beriniko@gmail.com
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art
Amanda Graham
agraham9@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: scars and healing, contemporary indigenous art, urban education and critical artistic pedagogy
Alicia Guzman
alicia.inez.guzman@gmail.com
Interests: installation art, the Baroque, urban and personal space, memory, everyday objects, identity politics, historiography and museum studies
Dinah
Holtzman
dholtzm2@mail.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: "Portrait of the Artist as Melancholic Cannibal"
Advisor: Joan Saab
Interests: contemporary art, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, Bollywood cinema,
trash/cult film, post-colonial theory
Jessica Horton
jessleehorton@yahoo.com
Interests: Contemporary Native American Art
Kyoung Lae Kang
kkang6@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: film theory, post-colonialism and national cinema, theorizing Korean pop culture and cinema.
Daisuke Kawahara
kwhr-dsk@wish.ocn.ne.jp
Interests:
Hossein
Khosrowjah
kwja@mail.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: "Unthinking the National Imaginary: The Singular Cinema of
Abbas Kiarostami"
Advisor: Professor Sharon Willis
Interests: national cinemas, in particular, national cinema of Iran; culture and formation of national identity; Orientalism; philosophical discussions about allegory and singularity; documentary cinema; ethnographic film; feminist film theory
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
Dissertation Title: "The Transvisible Subjectivity in Yayoi Kusama, On Kawara and
Radioactive Vision in the U.S. Minimal and Conceptual Art"
Advisors: Rachel Haidu and Douglas Crimp
Interests: Contemporary Art and Criticism
Erin Leary
eleary2@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: architecture, interior and product design; home economics; gender and consumption; 19th and 20th century American culture.
Sohl Lee
sohl.lee@gmail.com
Interests: institutional critique, feminism, globalization, and contemporary art from Asia.
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
Dissertation Title:
Advisor: Joan Saab
Interests: urban and suburban planning; spatial theory and the negotiation of
spaces; representations of space in film, television and art; contemporary art;
race in the american city
Alexander Marr
alexbmarr@gmail.com
Interests:
American Indian visual production, outsider and vernacular art, primitivism and the development of a non-European cultural identity in the U.S. before World War II.
McDonald, Jessica
jessica.s.mcdonald@gmail.com
Interests: history of photography, photographically-illustrated books, museum studies.
Lucy Mulroney
lucy.martin@rochester.edu
Interests: production and circulation of artists' books.
Taro
Nettleton
taro_nettleton@hotmail.com
Interests:
Asian representation; contemporary art; pop culture
Shota Ogawa
sogawa@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: postcolonial theory, representation of the Korean minority in Japanese popular culture
Victoria Pass
vpass@mail.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: "Re-Fashioning Surrealism: Surrealism, Fashion, and Shopping Culture"
Advisor: Janet Berlo
Interests: fashion, popular magazines, and material culture. Modern and contemporary art,
race, gender, critiques of museums, canonicity, appropriation, and influence
Paula Pinto
paulapinto@hotmail.com
Dissertation Title: "Photography as a Form of Art Reproduction"
Advisor(s): Douglas Crimp and Paul Duro
Interests: history of photography: photographic publications and magazines, the photographic museum
Ryan Randall
rrandal2@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: intersections of visual and audible culture (film or album art in particular), literary theory, cultural studies, race/ethnicity, gender, queer theory, politics of space
George C. Roland
georgecroland@gmail.com
Interests:
Derek
Rushton
drushton@mail.rochester.edu
Interests:
history of photography, contemporary art and theory, art and activism
Zainab Saleh
zainab.saleh@gmail.com
Interests:
graphic novels, image-word relations, Middle Eastern cinema, women's photography and film
Genevieve Waller
gwaller@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: photograms, queer theory, film, philosophy, decorative and everyday objects, questions of value, camp, music from the 1960's, girl bands
Cesare Wright
cesarewr@yahoo.com
Interests: Ethnographic and documentary film; visual anthropology; 'truth' in representation; the sublime; transnational and diasporic communication
Bo Zheng
mr.bo.zheng@gmail.com
Interests: socially engaged art, Chinese contemporary art
Iskandar Zulkarnain
izulkarn@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: Postcolonial theories and literatures, new media assemblages, electronic literatures, open source philosophies and practices, non-linear counter-culture movements, theories and practices of emergent identities, and "left-over" cultures.
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