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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
