Category: Grad Students
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Avery LaFlamme, Current CMS PhD Student and BA Alum, on Interning at Black Cinema House and Researching Artists’ Communities
By Amy Skjerseth Avery LaFlamme, currently a third year PhD student in CMS, also received his bachelor’s degree from UChicago. He started by studying Political Science, and then, after his advisor suggested that he take some film courses, majored in Cinema and Media Studies as well. “I started to take courses that were cross-listed in…
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K. L. Sanders on Digital Culture, Research in France, and the Quantified Cow
By Amy Skjerseth / CMS PhD Candidate For K.L. Sanders, Summer 2020 has yielded many potential case studies for her work on digital culture. In July, she attended Northwestern University’s Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture: Media Aesthetics II, an intensive, five-day event held entirely online. The theme was “Scenes of the Screen,” apt…