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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
Margot
Bouman
Margot_Bouman@yahoo.com
Dissertation Title: "Representations of the Public Sphere: Experimental Video and its Spaces of Production and Consumption"
Advisor: Douglas Crimp
Interests: avant-garde television, cultural theory, contemporary art
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 Title:
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
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
Kevin
Goodman
goodmn@gmail.com
Interests: media studies, film, sound, trauma
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
Randy
Innes
rain@mail.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: 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 Title: Home and Homeland: Feminist Ground in First Nations Art and Visual Culture
Advisor: Janet Berlo
Interests:
first Nnations 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
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
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
Lucy Martin
lucy.martin@rochester.edu
Interests: production and circulation of artists' books.
Akiko
Mizoguchi
akikomiz@cg8.so-net.ne.jp
Dissertation Title: 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: postcolonial theory, representation of the Korean minority in Japanese popular culture
Derya
Ozkan
ozkn@mail.rochester.edu
Interests:
spatial theory, politics of urban space
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
Victor
M. Rodriguez
vrod@troi.cc.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: 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: contemporary art, performance, cultural interventionist practices, critical theory, impact of globalization and neoliberal revolution on culture
Claire
Sykes
claire.sykes@rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: "Modalities of Experience in the Contemporary Encounter with Art" (working title)
Advisor: Paul Duro
Interests: questions of research and writing in the visual arts (the methodologies, assumptions and limits of art history and visual studies); theories of experience and interpretation (aesthetics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis); historiography; contemporary art and criticism
Lisa
Uddin
ludn@mail.rochester.edu
Dissertation Title: "Breeding Grounds: Race and Species in the New American Zoo"
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: photograms, queer theory, film, philosophy, decorative and everyday objects, questions of value, camp, music from the 1960's, girl bands
Cesare Wright
cesare@kinoeyecenter.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
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