Category: Alumni
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CMS Alum Nathan Holmes (Ph.D. 2012) on Cinematic Spaces, Urban Life, and a Research Method of Flânerie
Nathan Holmes, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at SUNY Purchase College, traces his interest in cinematic and social spaces back to growing up in a small town. As Holmes remembers, “Films were always a way to get somewhere else (to Paris, New York, Hong Kong etc.). This changed slightly as I got older and became…
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Srijita Banerjee (MAPH 2018) on French Ethnographic Film, Experimental Animation, and the Connections She Made During the UChicago MAPH Program
A UChicago MAPH student in the 2017-2018 academic year, Srijita Banerjee is now a second year PhD student in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. The MAPH program was what led her to cinema studies: “I came into the program super interested in art history, but I took a bunch of film courses because…
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CMS Ph.D. Alum Kalisha Cornett on Teaching and Advising for Student Equity
Kalisha Cornett (Ph.D. 2019) has carried a tradition from Miriam Hansen into her role as lecturer and academic advisor in Screen Cultures at Northwestern University: she arrives at each scheduled screening a few minutes early to greet the students, watch the film, and take notes. “In every screening,” Cornett remembers from CA’ing for Hansen, “there…
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BA Alum Katie Kirkland (2015) on Performative Strategies in Contemporary Experimental Documentary and Film Programming during COVID-19
Katie Kirkland, a fourth year PhD candidate in Comparative Literature / Film and Media Studies at Yale University, found film as an undergraduate student at UChicago. “I feel very fortunate to have fallen into film, since I knew next to nothing about it when I first entered college,” Kirkland says. Her interest in film was…
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Ph.D. Alum Sabrina Negri on the Detective Work of Film Preservation and the Increased Digitization of Archives during COVID-19
Sabrina Negri (Ph.D. 2017) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder. Negri’s dissertation, titled “Archival Clues: Film, Digital, and the Evidential Paradigm,” speaks to the rich intersections of her work on the digital preservation of analog moving images, but she has also published…
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Guggenheim Fellow Pamela Wojcik on New Meanings of Mobility and Placelessness During COVID-19
By Amy Skjerseth / CMS PhD Candidate In 2020, Pamela Robertson Wojcik (Ph.D. 1993) not only has received a Guggenheim Fellowship along with the University of Notre Dame Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award—she also has published her book Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise and is releasing a co-edited collection in March 2021.…
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Allison Whitney on Student and Community Engagement at Texas Tech
By Amy Skjerseth / CMS PhD Candidate As the first official Ph.D. graduate of CMS, Allison Whitney recalls the excitement of a university film culture that involved the broader Chicago community. “One of the things that was so crucial to my education,” Whitney remembers, “was the presence of the Film Studies Center and Doc Films.…
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MAPH and Ph.D. Alum Pao-chen Tang on Networking and the Job Market during COVID-19
By Amy Skjerseth / CMS PhD Candidate Pao-chen Tang, a film scholar with a focus in East Asia and media environmental studies, can attest to what it’s like to start an academic job during a pandemic. This fall, he began a position as Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of…