People

Eduardo Rivera

Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, 2026-27

Eduardo L Rivera is an artist from Phoenix, Arizona. Influenced by the poetics and politics that ripple through his childhood home near the U.S.-Mexico border, his work uses visual traditions such as portraiture, still life, landscape, and vernacular...

Nathan Roberts

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

Teaching Fellow

Nathan Roberts is a sixth-year graduate student in the Art, Film, and Visual Studies department, and the 2020-2021 Departmental Writing Fellow. As a recent beneficiary of the Merit/Graduate Society Research Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and...

Bastiyan Rodrigo

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for AFVS 99A

Lana Romanova

lanaromanova@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

Vera Rosen-Bernstein

vera_rosenbernstein@fas.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for AFVS 50B & AFVS 264

Cozette Russell

Program Coordinator

Cozette Russell is the Program Coordinator for the Film Study Center and the secondary field in Critical Media Practice (CMP). She works closely with Film Study Center staff and fellows and supports graduate students in CMP.

Matt Saunders

De Ying Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Grounded in painting, Saunders' work makes porous and provocative relationships with other forms, especially photography, printmaking and installations of animated films. One-person institutional exhibitions include the Renaissance Society (Chicago), 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...

Danni Shen

dannishen@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Curatorial & Public Programs Assistant at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

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...