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Graduate Students in Visual & Cultural Studies

Alexandra Alisauskas
a.alisauskas@rochester.edu
Interests: contemporary art and critical theory, film, space, the body and the senses, food

Joel Neville Anderson
joel.neville.anderson@rochester.edu
www.joelnevilleanderson.com
Interests: Japanese cinema, film theory, experimental narrative, domestic dramas and family films, Japanese New Wave, film production methodologies, independent film, genre, noise music, early film

Hend Alawadhi
hano@me.com
Interests: Arab culture, animation, anime, gender studies, interactive design, Italian renaissance, Middle Eastern studies, orientalism, semiotics, horse riding

Tiffany Barber
tbarber4@z.rochester.edu
Interests: contemporary art with an emphasis on the expressions and theorizations of (post)blackness and afrofuturism, politics of identity performance, theories of publics and public space, intersections between visual and literary practices, histories of exhibition and curatorial practices

Rebecca Burditt
rebecca.burditt@rochester.edu
Interests: race and representation in photojournalism, visual culture in the American 1950's

Ryan Conrath
ryan.conrath@rochester.edu
Interests: The representation of suicide in film, literature and photography; contemporary german photography; the american structural filmmakers; Maurice Blanchot; Youtube; violence; literary theory.

Maia Dauner
maia.dauner@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

Eitan Freedenberg
freedenberg@me.com
Interests: Rural studies (Appalachia and the Mountain West) , Marxist geography, vernacular architecture, heritage production, folklore, critical regionalism, postmodern tourisms, cultural simulacra, phenomenology of material culture.

Erin Flaherty
emflaherty@gmail.com
Interests: posthumanities and animal studies; cyborg culture; representations of the biological body; cult films; feminist theory; celebrity culture; coming of age narratives, especially in the horror genre; cartoons

Victoria Gao
vgao@z.rochester.edu
Interests: Mid-twentieth century street, documentary, and journalistic photography; issues of privacy and candidness; urban spectatorship; mass media; cinema and filmic reality.

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

Abigail Glogower
abbyglogower@gmail.com
Interests: 19th century theatres of vision and telecommunications, paleofuture, technology and affect, historicity and historical change, Jewish museums and visual culture.

Berin Golonu
bgolonu@z.rochester.edu
Interests: Orientalist photography and painting, late Ottoman history, Turkish and Arab modern and contemporary art,visual constructs of national identity, landscapes of the technological sublime.

Amanda Graham
agraham9@z.rochester.edu
Interests: Contemporary American dance and art, relational aesthetics, photography, film, community-based activism, urban geography

Alicia Guzman
a.guzman4@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: installation art, the Baroque, urban and personal space, memory, everyday objects, identity politics, historiography and museum studies

Jessica Horton
jessleehorton@yahoo.com
Interests: Modern and contemporary art, Native American art history, race and ethnic studies, post-colonial theory, space and memory

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: Film history and theory, media archaeology, convergence culture, contemporary American cinema, Japanese cinema.

Gloria Kim
gloriakim.cs@gmail.com
Dissertation title: Transmissions: Public Health Information Campaigns, Global Pandemics and Ambient Media in the Era of US Health Security
Advisor: Sharon Willis
Interests: Media and communications theory, documentary studies, cultural theory, cultural studies of science, technology and nature, cold war design, sociology and anthropology of risk, bioethics, modern and contemporary art.

Yuichiro Kugo
yuichiro.kugo@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
erin.leary@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.

Kelly Long
kellylong11@gmail.com
Interests: modern and contemporary art, installation, light, sentience, negation, feminist theory, artist books, museum studies, water and memory

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.

Jessica McDonald
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.

Najd Ahmadi
tnajdahm@z.rochester.edu
Interests:

Jenevive Nykolak
jnykolak@gmail.com
Interests: modern and contemporary art, queer theory, historiography, temporality, theories of modernism and the avant-garde

Shota Ogawa
shota.ogawa@rochester.edu
Interests: postcolonial theory, representation of the Korean minority in Japanese popular culture

Christopher Patrello
bragi86@gmail.com
Interests: Native American Art History, cross-cultural exchange, object/agent networks, consumption, museum studies

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

Zainab Saleh
zsaleh@mail.rochester.edu
Interests: graphic novels, image-word relations, Middle Eastern cinema, women's photography and film

Tracy Stuber
tstuber@z.rochester.edu
Interests:

Genevieve Waller
genevieve.waller@rochester.edu
Interests: photograms, queer theory, film, philosophy, decorative and everyday objects, questions of value, camp, music from the 1960's, girl bands

Stephanie Wolf
swolf2@z.rochester.edu
Interests:

Cesare Wright
cesarewr@yahoo.com
Interests: Ethnographic and documentary film; visual anthropology; 'truth' in representation; the sublime; transnational and diasporic communication

Ruben Yepes Munoz
ryepesmu@z.rochester.edu
Interests:

Bo Zheng
mr.bo.zheng@gmail.com
Interests: socially engaged art, Chinese contemporary art

Lina Zigelyte
lina.zigelyte@gmail.com
Interests: Visuality; performance theory; Communism and cultural memory; site-specific art; urban space; critical theory; gender theory

Iskandar Zulkarnain
iskandar.zulkarnain.78@gmail.com
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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