Graduate Students

Academic Interests
Military History and its material culture and the topic’s perception by the public and museums.

Academic Interests
Film Pedagogy, Digital Media in the Classroom, Genre Studies, Film History with a Focus on Early Sound Film, and film theory

Academic Interests
East Asian Cinema, Gender and Sexuality in Cinema

Academic Interests
Film and Cultural Studies, African American Cinema


Academic Interests
Independent and art cinema studies, narratives of the immigrant experience in the U.S., screenwriting, and fiction writing

Academic Interests
American Cinema after 9/11, film theory and criticism, cinema and politics

Academic Interests
Iranian and Middle Eastern Cinemas; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Documentary Film Studies; Feminist Film Theories; Transnational Cinema

Academic Interests
Transgender/non-binary identities, technological agency and autonomy, artificial intelligence, and trans*feminist pedagogy