Graduate Students

Max Bowens

Max Bowens

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Film Study Center Fellow: 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023

Max Bowens is a filmmaker and fourth-year PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His...

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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...

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Sophie Gilmore

Sophie Gilmore

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow

Sophie is a PhD student in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University.  She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her interests include digital media, popular culture, and intersections between film and other art forms.... Read more about Sophie Gilmore

svgilmore [at] g.harvard.edu

John Hulsey

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

John Hulsey is an artist, filmmaker, and PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies. He received an AB from Harvard College, an MFA in Interdisciplinary...

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jhulsey [at] fas.harvard.edu
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Jonathan Knapp

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

Jonathan L. Knapp is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies. His dissertation examines location scouting and location management practices for feature...

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Xavier Nueno

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

Xavier Nueno is a writer, researcher, and last year doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. His...

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nueno [at] g.harvard.edu
Julia Sharpe

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 provisional landscape/narrative.... Read more about Julia Sharpe