Graduate Students
Rosa Prosser
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Rosa Prosser is a Cumbrian artist, filmmaker and researcher pursuing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies. Her creative and research practice explores the entanglements of place, weather, history and story through an elemental lens - primarily, that of the...
Julia Sharpe
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Julia Sharpe is a maker, writer and graduate student in the Film and Visual Studies Department. Focusing on the poetic and haptic as mechanisms for destabilizing the (historicized) syntax of everyday life, her work employs derived research to explore a...
Pauline Shongov
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Pauline Shongov is a PhD student in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, pursuing a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. Through media archaeology and visual ethnography, her work centers on the material, oral, and affective histories of...
Wesley Simon
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Wesley Simon is an interdisciplinary artist and PhD candidate in AFVS. His art and research frequently deal with themes of materiality, modes of observation and the passing of time, occasionally with a sense of humor. Currently, his research is focused on...
Aden Solway
asolway [at] g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Aden Solway is an artist and curator interested in the organization of time, space and aesthetic forms through systems of exhibition, value and interpretation. Trained as both an historian and an artist, they have worked across three continents...
Valerie Werder
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Valerie Werder is a writer and scholar of film and photography currently completing her Ph.D. in film and visual studies at Harvard University. Her dissertation, “Body Camera,” theorizes police bodycam footage as a highly mediated audiovisual form that...
Toby Wu
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Toby is a first-year PhD Student in Art, Film and Visual Studies. He researches the emergence of time-based media practices in the Global Contemporary, through configurations of the Transpacific and elemental media theory. He is invested in the material...
Nace Zavrl
zavrl@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Nace Zavrl is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, working on nonfiction filmmaking, globalization, and historiography. Before arriving at Harvard, Nace studied at King’s College London and at Goldsmiths, University of...
Shaowen Zhang
shaowenzhang@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Shaowen’s research focuses on modern Chinese visual studies, film, and media. Her dissertation investigates the social, political, visual, and media-industrial legacy of color from China’s socialist period to the late 1980s, tracing a chromatic...
