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Laura Aydelotte
Laura Aydelotte is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Chicago. She studies and teaches poetry and drama across the Medieval and Renaissance periods, and also specializes in interdisciplinary study of the relationship between literature and the visual arts. She is currently completing a dissertation entitled “Monumental Visions: Literary Architecture from Chaucer to Ben Jonson” which examines the historical sources and literary functions of descriptions of architecture in poetry and drama from the 14th to the 17th centuries.
Devon Baker
I received my Bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Nebraska—Omaha in 2006. Currently, I am a second year Master’s student at Indiana University, specializing in Italian Renaissance Art. The paper which I am presenting represents a component of my thesis in which I will be continuing and expanding upon the notion of congruencies between printmaking, rhetoric, and script. In addition to my interest in Renaissance print and print culture, my other interests include gender relations and representations as well as the role of mathematics in Renaissance art.
Michael Barany
Michael Barany is a first-year PhD student in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University, where he studies the material and social history of mathematical rigor. Focusing on forms and manifestations of mathematical witnessing, intuition, and self-evidence, his research topics include Early Modern translations of Euclid, Victorian views on the prehistory of numbers and measures, and the development of the mathematical theory of distributions over the last half-century. His webpage is http://www.princeton.edu/~mbarany
Vanessa K. Davidson
Vanessa Katherine Davidson is a Fulbright Scholar studying at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively titled “The Pioneering Works of Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Paulo Bruscky: Alternative Communication Networks, Conceptual Art, and Performance (1960s-1980s),” under the direction of Robert Storr and Edward Sullivan. She received her MA from the Institute in 2004, and her BA from Harvard College in 1999.
James Duesterberg
James Duesterberg is a second-year Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Chicago. He studies contemporary literature and film, with a focus on the relationship between aesthetic experience and the constitution of the subject.
Vanessa K. Davidson
Vanessa Katherine Davidson is a Fulbright Scholar studying at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively titled “The Pioneering Works of Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Paulo Bruscky: Alternative Communication Networks, Conceptual Art, and Performance (1960s-1980s),” under the direction of Robert Storr and Edward Sullivan. She received her MA from the Institute in 2004, and her BA from Harvard College in 1999.
Alicia DeSantis
Alicia DeSantis is a Ph.D. candidate in English and American Literature at Columbia University. Her research interests include literary realism, visual culture and pragmatist aesthetics. She also works as a graphics editor and art director at The New York Times. She received her B.A. in English from Harvard in 2000.
T. Brandon Evans
T. Brandon Evans is a MA candidate in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His work deals with sound theory and politics of visibility/invisibility. He is also a Portuguese-English translator. He is a 2010 student participant in the Stone Summer Theory Institute, and he holds a BA from Georgetown University.
L.M. Ferreira
L.M. Ferreira C.V. is an MFA candidate in the University of Iowa’s Creative Nonfiction program. She has been published in Wag’s Revue, the Iron Horse Review, and the Bellingham Review. In addition to receiving the Kagel and Blessing Creative Writing Scholarship during the completion of her undergraduate degree, she has been nominated for “The Best of The Web 2010 Prize” and the “Pushcart Prize.” She intends to return to Colombia and complete her master thesis around the cultural symbiosis of carnivals and violence.
Edgar Garcia
Edgar Garcia is a poet and a graduate student at Yale University. His dissertation considers American Revolution and Poetics. A somewhat related desire to grasp the immense immediacy of polis as cosmos can be found in his writings on arts and culture at http://www.thehydramag.com/, an online magazine.
Alvin Henry
Alvin Henry is completing his Ph.D. in Literature and Social Thought at the University of California, Berkeley. Most recently, Henry is editing a collection of essays for Cambridge Scholars Press entitled ‘Psychoanalysis in Context: Literary Readings for the 21st century’ due out in 2010. His dissertation explores racial anxiety and the minority Bildungsroman.
John Harkey
John Harkey is a PhD student at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His dissertation, on “small poetry” (small, not short, nota bene), devotes itself principally to Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. In a separate but related vein, he writes small poems himself and recently started Creature Press, a vehicle for hand-made chapbooks. John lives in Woodside, Queens.
Sarah Hetherington
Sarah Hetherington is a doctoral student in the History of Art at Yale University. She received her undergraduate degree in English with honors at the University of Chicago, with a minor in Art History. At Yale, she works on American and European sculpture in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as that of Mesoamerica in the 16th century.
Jennifer Jacobs
Jennifer Jacobs is a Masters of Fine Arts student at Hunter College in New York. She teaches new media theory, game theory and programming in the Film and Media department at Hunter College In addition, she works with the social values game lab, Tiltfactor. Her practice utilizes a wide range of technology and media including, computing and programming, performance, animation and illustration. Her work has recently been screened at Pace University in New York, Art Basel Miami, The University of Southern California, and Tractor Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She is currently completing her thesis, an interactive project that examines the varying modes of online exploration and the effect of information accumulation on personal identity.
Julia Jarcho
Julia Jarcho is a doctoral candidate in the rhetoric department at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation, “This Will Kill That: Towards a Theory of Performance Text,” is about writing’s engagements with theater throughout anglophone modernism and in contemporary American playwriting. She is also a playwright and director.
Anna Lee
Anna Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago. She is interested in how post-Kodak amateur photographic practices cultivate a unique viewer/practitioner/subject, and how this hybrid consciousness influences our sometimes peculiar affective relationships to photographs. Presently, she is working on a dissertation about contemporary photographers who court contingencies by imposing laboratory-like conditions on their subjects.
Daniel Marcus
Daniel Marcus is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at UC Berkeley, where he is writing a dissertation on post-Cubist responses to the transformation of the commodity-object in early 20th-century Europe, focusing on works by Fernand Léger and Le Corbusier. He has published an essay on Picasso’s Guernica, in Picasso Harlequin, 1917–1937 (ed. Yve-Alain Bois), and recently co-authored an essay with Erica Levin on the precariousness of work in contemporary art. Before coming to the Bay Area, he was Assistant Curator at the Swiss Institute in New York. Currently, he is a lecturer in the Critical Studies program at CCA. He lives in San Francisco, CA.
Christopher Martiniano
Christopher Martiniano is an Associate Instructor and PhD Student in the Department of English at Indiana University/Bloomington. He received his Masters from DePaul University and currently studies Late eighteenth century literature and art history with particular interest in William Blake and Henri Fuseli. Additionally he writes rock criticism for a variety of alt-weeklies across the country.
Kristen Oehlrich
Kristen Oehlrich is a phd candidate in in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Brown University. Her work focuses on the history of photography and transatlantic exchanges of the 1920s and 1930s. Kristen holds an MA in Art History from Stony Brook University, and was honored to be a fellow in the Whitney Museum of Art’s Critical Studies Program. In addition to teaching at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons, and the Rhode Island School of Design, Kristen was also an Curatorial Assistant for the 2006 DADA exhibition at the MoMA. Her dissertation will examine Walker Evans’ early work done between the years 1926-1936.
Mikey Rinaldo
Mikey Rinaldo is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Michigan. His interests include lyric/avant-garde poetics and comics. Currently he is starting a dissertation on 20th-century French, German, & American pictorial poetry.
Jonathan Schroeder
Leslie Synn
Leslie Synn is an English PhD. candidate at the Graduate Center of CUNY with certificate in American Studies. She is currently writing her dissertation on Jonathan Edwards, Ralph W. Emerson, and William James, focusing on evolving themes of sacrifice, redemption, and mediation in American rhetoric. Her research interests are in perspectives of language and thinking as material, directional and transformative, as provided by Jamesian pragmatism, A.N. Whitehead’s organic philosophy, Kenneth Burke’s studies of rhetoric, psychoanalysis and object-relations theory, and more recently, the field of cognitive linguistics. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Chicago in 2002. She teaches Introduction to Media Studies at Hunter College.
