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Visual Studies Faculty
University of California, Irvine
NameTitleEmail
Eyal AmiranPh.D., University of Virginia; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies (Digital media theory, twentieth-century literature, narrative and textual theory, psychoanalysis, modern and postmodern intellectual history)amiran@uci.edu
Catherine BenamouPh.D., New York University; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Latin American and Latina/o film and media, Orson Welles, transnational flows)cbenamou@uci.edu
Julia Bryan-WilsonPh.D., University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor of Art History (Contemporary art, feminist and queer theory, performance and video art)julia.bw@uci.edu
Bridget R. CooksPh.D., University of Rochester; Assistant Professor of Art History (African-American art, museum studies, feminist and post-colonial theory)b.cooks@uci.edu
Sohail DaulatzaiPh.D., University of Southern California; Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (African American studies, postcolonial theory, race, hip hop, Muslim diasporas)sdaulatz@uci.edu
Edward DimendbergPh.D., University of California, Santa Cruz; Associate Professor Cinema (Architecture, urbanism, modernism, modernity)ed1@uci.edu
Anna GonosovaPh.D., Harvard University; Associate Professor of Art History (Byzantine and Medieval art)agonosov@uci.edu
Kristen HatchPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (American film, childhood, gender and sexuality, reception studies)khatch@uci.edu
James D. HerbertPh.D., Yale University; Professor of Art History (Modern European art, art and music, art and religion)jdherb@uci.edu
Lucas HilderbrandPh.D., New York University; Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (Video, documentary, queer studies)lucas.h@uci.edu
Victoria E. JohnsonPh.D., University of Southern California; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Television, critical race theory, sound, media policy, sport)v.e.johnson@uci.edu
Peter KrappPh.D., University of California, Santa Barbara; Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, English, and Informatics
(Digital culture, media history, cultural memory)
krapp@uci.edu
Bliss Cua LimPh.D., New York University; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Philippine cinema, temporality, postcolonial and
feminist film theory, transnational Asian horror and the fantastic, taste cultures)
flim@uci.edu
Catherine LiuPh.D., CUNY Graduate Center; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature (Critical theory, Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, cultural populism, cultural revolutions)catherine.liu@uci.edu
Lyle MasseyPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Associate Professor of Art History (Italian Renaissance and early modern European art, gender theory, science studies)lmassey@uci.edu
Margaret M. MilesPh.D., Princeton University; Professor of Art History (on leave through 06/11) (Greek and Roman art, archaeology)mmmiles@uci.edu
Glen MimuraPh.D., University of California, Santa Cruz; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Race and sexuality, nationalism and
globalization, popular culture)
gmimura@uci.edu
Alka PatelPh.D., Harvard University; Assistant Professor of Art History (South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, historiographies,
Islamic diasporas in Cuba)
alka.patel@uci.edu
Amy PowellPh.D., Harvard University; Assistant Professor (Late medieval and early modern art of northern Europe, critical theory)amy.powell@uci.edu
Fatimah Tobing RonyPh.D., Yale University; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Ethnographic film, race and representation, film production)fatimah@uci.edu
Sally A. SteinProfessor Emeritus of Art Historysurfstein@uci.edu
Cécile WhitingPh.D., Stanford University; Professor of Art History (American art, 20th century visual culture)cwhiting@uci.edu
Bert Winther-TamakiPh.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Associate Professor of Art History (Modern Japanese art, Asian-American art, globalization)dewinthe@uci.edu
Roberta WuePh.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Assistant Professor of Art History (19th and 20th century Chinese art, photography)rwue@uci.edu
     
Affiliate Faculty
NameTitleEmail
Ackbar AbbasM.Phil., University of Hong Kong; Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies (Hong Kong culture and postcolonialism, visual culture, architecture and cinema, cultural theory, globalization)mabbas@uci.edu
Kyung Hyun KimPh.D., University of Southern California; Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and of Film and Media Studies (Modern Korea, Asian cinema, critical theory)kyunghk@uci.edu
Jared SextonPh.D., University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor of African American Studies (Race and sexuality, policing and imprisonment, contemporary U.S. cinema and political culture, multiracial coalition, critical theory)jcsexton@uci.edu
Roxanna VarziPh.D., Columbia University; Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Film and Media Studies (Iran, Media, War, Visual anthropology, film studies, Ethnographic and fiction writing)rvarzi@uci.edu