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Jie Li

jieli@fas.harvard.edu

Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies

Harvard College Professor

Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded...

Ruth Lingford

Senior Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Lingford has been making short animated films since studying fine art and art history at Middlesex (1987–1990) and animation at the MA level at the Royal College of Art (1990–92). Her films have been broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, and have won many...

Julie Mallozzi

juliemallozzi@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Administrative Director of the Film Study Center

Julie Mallozzi is a documentary filmmaker whose work explores the transformative power of traditional cultural practices. Her current project Entangled Minds is a journey into the minds of four people seeking relief from their pain through treatments that...

Patrick Marshall

patrick_marshall@fas.harvard.edu

Film Study Coordinator

Film Study Coordinator

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Sylvie Mayer

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for GENED 1114

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Julia McGehean

Lecturer

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for GENED 1114

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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.edu

Graduate 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...

John Merrill

jmerrill [at] fas.harvard.edu

Manager of Photographic Services

John manages the photographic equipment and digital imaging classrooms used by photo students. He is also in charge of the digital facility used by other studio classes.

Mahan Moalemi

mahanmoalemi@g.harvard.edu

Graduate 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.edu

Graduate 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...

Robb Moss

Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Arts

Robb Moss’ most recent film, The Bend in the River, premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. The film, the third of a trilogy, follows the lives of five friends from their twenties into the seventies, a meditation on time, friendship and the arc of...