Graduate Students
Nuotama Bomodo
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Santiago Bonilla
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Max Bowens
mbowens@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Film Study Center Fellow: 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
Max Bowens is a filmmaker and PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His research concerns the relationship between art and biometrics, and has been supported by the Getty Predoctoral...
Yongyu Chen
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Yongyu Chen is a writer & a third-year PhD student in Film and Visual Studies. Their work concerns photography, queer theory, potentiality, & the ontology & ethics of worlds. They have a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Spanish from Cornell University.
Olivia Crough
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Olivia Crough is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies. Her areas of research include Russian and Soviet art and film, experiments in nonfiction, and cinema’s relationship with political economy, waste, and wetlands. As a critic, she contributes to...
Tarik Garrett
Graduate Student
Teaching Fellow
Tarik Garrett is an artist working between Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA. His artwork and his research are rooted in African diasporic cultural traditions in the Americas. Garrett works in sculpture, photography, video, printmaking, and audio, with a...
Keisha Knight
kknight[at]g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Keisha is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University who has spent the majority of her adult life in Asia and New York City. Keisha holds a BA from Barnard College in Comparative Religion and an MA in Media Studies from Pratt...
Kendra McLaughlin
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Kendra McLaughlin is a Canadian filmmaker and researcher. At Harvard, she is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies and a Masters student in Anthropology, with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. She has also been a fellow at the Film Study...
Emilia Mello
emello@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Emilia Mello is an Brazilian-American filmmaker, artist and scholar based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her first feature documentary, SEM DEUS, SEM DEMÔNIO (No Kings), premiered at CPH:DOX in 2020 and played at the True/False Film Festival 2021 and MoMA Doc...
Mahan Moalemi
mahanmoalemi@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Mahan Moalemi is a writer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “The Disabled Object: A Critique of Reparative Reason,” examines the forms of disablement among...
Luise Mörke
luisemoerke@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Luise Mörke's academic work revolves around the relation between aesthetic forms and global capitalism, specifically in post-reunification Germany. Before joining Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies as a PhD student, she studied Art...
