GRADUATE PROGRAM IN VISUAL STUDIES

Faculty

Ackbar Abbas, M. Phil. University of Hong Kong, Professor of Comparative Literature and of Film and Media Studies (globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, postcoloniality, critical theory)

Eyal Amiran, Ph.D. University of Virginia, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and of Film and Media Studies (digital media theory, twentieth-century literature, narrative and textual theory, psychoanalysis, modern and postmodern intellectual history)

George Bauer, Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor Emeritus of Art History (Renaissance and Baroque)

Linda Freeman Bauer, Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Professor Emerita of Art History (Renaissance and Baroque)

Catherine L. Benamou, Ph.D. New York University, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Hispanophone and Lusophone cinema and television, transnational media flows and ethnic spectatorship, Orson Welles and post-war maverick cinema, transculturation, cinematic memory and cultures of preservation)

Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D. University of Rochester, Director of the Graduate Program in Visual Studies and Associate Professor of African American Studies and Art History (African American art and culture, Black visual culture, museum criticism, film, feminist theory and postcolonial theory)

Sohail Daulatzai, Ph.D. University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (Black radicalism, Muslim studies, cultural studies, race, postcolonial theory, U.S. imperial culture, cinema and hip-hop culture)

Edward Dimendberg, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor of Film and Media Studies (film and literature, history of the book, scholarly communication)

Anna Gonosová, Ph.D. Harvard University, Professor Emerita of Art History (Byzantine and Medieval art and architecture)

Kristen Hatch, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (American film history, film genres, stardom, histories of gender and sexuality, childhood studies, and reception studies)

James D. Herbert, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of Art History (Modern European art)

Lucas Hilderbrand, Ph.D. New York University, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (histories of technology, copyright, documentary, queer cultures and media, obscenity, and video art)

Judy C. Ho, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor Emerita of Art History (Chinese art, archaeology, common religion, Buddhist art)

Victoria E. Johnson, Ph.D. University of Southern California, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (history and critical theory of U.S. television, popular film, and media; politics of geography, race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture; cultural studies)

Kyung Hyun Kim, Ph.D. University of Southern California, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and of Film and Media Studies (East Asian cinema, modern Korea, cultural theory)

Peter Krapp, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Professor of Film and Media Studies (digital culture, media history, cultural memory, history and theory of artificial worlds)

Felicidad "Bliss" Cua Lim, Ph.D. New York University, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Philippine cinema; temporality; postcolonial studies; feminist film theory; fantastic cinema; politics of genre; taste cultures)

Catherine Liu, Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate School and Center, Director of the Humanities Center and Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, labor history and theory, U.S. intellectual history and educational/cultural/media policy, culture wars, Frankfurt School, historiography and psychoanalysis, spaces of private life, Cold War culture, neoliberalism, science fiction studies, political economy and aesthetic education)

Lyle Massey, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Art History (Renaissance and early modern art)

Margaret M. Miles, Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of Art History and Classics (Greek and Roman art, archaeology)

Glen Mimura, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Associate Dean of Graduate Study and Research and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (minority, diasporic, and third cinemas; popular culture and social movements; media, race, and sexuality)

Alka Patel, Ph.D. Harvard University, Associate Professor of Art History (Asian art, South Asian architecture)

Allison Perlman, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies and of History (history of broadcasting, American social movements, media law and policy, media activism, popular memory)

Mark S. Poster, Ph.D. New York University, Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies and of History (modern European intellectual history, media studies)

Amy Powell, Ph.D. Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Art History (Northern European art and visual culture, 1300-1700)

Fatimah Tobing Rony, Ph.D. Yale University, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (documentary and ethnographic film, race and representation, postcolonial studies, film history and theory, film production)

Jared Sexton, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Program Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (race and sexuality, policing and imprisonment, contemporary U.S. cinema and political culture, multiracial coalition, critical theory)

Sally A. Stein, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor Emerita of Art History (American art, photography and mass media, feminist theory)

Dickran Tashjian, Ph.D. Brown University, Professor Emeritus of Art History (American art and literature, American and European avant-garde, art and technology)

Roxanne Varzi, Ph.D. Columbia University, Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Film and Media Studies (visual anthropology, Iran, popular culture, war, media and religion)

Cécile Whiting, Ph.D. Stanford University, Department Chair and Professor of Art History (American art and culture)

Bert Winther-Tamaki, Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Professor of Art History (Modern Japanese art, Asian American art, art and nationalism)

Roberta Wue, Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Assistant Professor of Art History (late imperial and modern Chinese art, photography and visual culture)

Affiliated Faculty

Laura H. Y. Kang, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, and English (feminist epistemologies and theories, cultural studies, ethnic studies)

Julia Reinhard Lupton, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Education (Renaissance literature, literature and psychology)

William M. Maurer, Ph.D. Stanford University, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, School of Social Sciences; Director of the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion; and Professor of Anthropology and Law (anthropology of law, globalization, transnationalism, citizenship and nationalism, finance capital, identity, Caribbean)

Jennifer Terry, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Department Chair of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature (cultural studies, social theory; science and technology studies, historical formations of gender and sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; American studies in transnational perspective)

Jonathan M. Wiener, Ph.D. Harvard University, Professor of History (recent American history, theory and history)