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Nicholas Baer Nicholas Baer
Dept of Film and Media
Dept of German
film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology, psychoanalysis
Professional photograph of Rizvana Bradley Rizvana Bradley
Dept of Film and Media
aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media
portrait photo Weihong Bao
Dept of Film and Media
late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)
Damon R. Young sitting in front of a window Damon Young
Dept of Film and Media
Dept of French
film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory
Jeffrey Knapp Jeffrey Knapp
Dept of English
English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship
Kent Puckett Kent Puckett
Dept of English
critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis
Miryam Sas in outdoor environment Miryam Sas
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Dept of Film and Media
20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies
photo of Roshanak Kheshti Roshanak Kheshti
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis
Rhiannon Noel Welch Rhiannon Noel Welch
Dept of Italian Studies
Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory
cortez photo Iggy Cortez
Dept of Film and Media
world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory
Person placeholder image Kristen Whissel
Dept of Film and Media
Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, classical Hollywood cinema, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements
Abigail De Kosnik Abigail De Kosnik
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
new media, performance studies, performance theory, performance, media studies, fan studies, digital culture, social networks, film, television, social media, internet culture, digital humanities, data science, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality, transnationalism, Filipino American studies, Asian American studies, archives, cultural memory, piracy, distribution
Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background. Stephen Best
Dept of English
film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture
Daniel Fisher Daniel Fisher
Dept of Anthropology
media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology
Jacob Gaboury Jacob Gaboury
Dept of Film and Media
media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology
headshot of Debarati Sanyal Debarati Sanyal
Dept of French
Border studies, race, postcolonialism, politics of aesthetic form, nineteenth-century French studies, memory studies, World War Two, Holocaust studies, critical refugee studies, contemporary fiction and film
Pheng Cheah Pheng Cheah
Dept of Rhetoric
world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
headshot of Ling Hon Lam Ling Hon Lam
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory
Mel Y Chen headshot Mel Y Chen
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Ula Y. Taylor Ula Y. Taylor
Dept of African American Studies
20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background Mario Telò
Dept of Rhetoric
Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy
Eric Stanley Eric A. Stanley
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory
Nicholas Paige Nicholas Paige
Dept of French
17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)
Person placeholder image Natalia Brizuela
Dept of Film and Media
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish, Portuguese, photography, literature and the visual arts, cinema, indigenous ontologies
headshot of Henry Washington Jr. Henry Washington Jr.
Dept of African American Studies
19th and 20th century African American literature, black intellectual histories, black feminist, queer, and trans theories, black critical theory, aesthetics and visual culture, performance studies
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