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Kianja Strobert

kstrobert@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Kianja Strobert's work is at the intersection of found image, three dimensional forms, installation and painting. Her work was recently acquired into the permanent national collections of The Centre National des Arts Plastiques, FR and The US Embassy in...

William Valdes

Teaching Fellow

Teaching Fellow for AFVS 196

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Moira Weigel

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Education: PhD, Yale University, 2018 MPhil, Cambridge University, 2008 BA, Harvard University, 2007 Research Fields: I write and teach about the history, theory, and social life of media and communication technologies, from the early nineteenth century...

Justin Weir

Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature

Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Research Fields: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian prose, film, Russian intellectual history and literary theory Education: Ph.D. 1997 Northwestern University, Slavic Languages and Literatures M.A. 1993, Northwestern University, Slavic Languages...

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...

Sam Witherow

switherow@fas.harvard.edu

Manager of Equipment

Manager of Equipment for the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

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...

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Eric Wyche

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for AFVS 153BR

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Mingyi Yu

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

Teaching Fellow

Mingyi Yu is a PhD candidate in the Film and Visual Studies program at Harvard University where he works on media theory and cultural techniques with a focus on the history of computing and questions of historiography. Recent research topics include: the...

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Alexander Zahlten

azahlten@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Alexander Zahlten's research interests center on film and audiovisual culture in East Asia, with a focus on Japan. His work explores fundamental shifts in how we engage with media through the connections between larger economic, social, and institutional...

Nace Zavrl

zavrl@g.harvard.edu

Graduate 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.edu

Graduate 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...