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VSGSA STUDENT BIOS 2007-8
VSGSA members listed with contact info welcome inquiries regarding the program from prospective graduate students.
DISCLAIMER: The information below is incomplete in its account of accepted and officially enrolled students, and may not accurately reflect the current status of active members. This list reproduces only the information voluntarily submitted by respondents to past or present VSGSA webmasters by the members below.
I. COMPLETING COURSEWORK OR READING FOR EXAMS
Charles Bailey
Charles Bailey
cwbailey@uci.edu
Non-fiction film, New Hollywood Cinema, World Cinema, Chinese and Hong
Kong film, De films van Johan van der Keuken, documentary film production,
and Globalization. Current research focuses on Chinese cinema reception
during Exclusion in Los Angeles and San Francisco (1896-1941).
B.A., Film Studies summa cum laude, University of Oklahoma
Kim Beil
kbeil@uci.edu
Site-specific new media projects, museums, personality in virtual worlds, the role of the critic.
B.A., Comparative Literature, Brown University
Stacey Snider Birk
sjsnider@uci.edu
Interests: digital media, online communities
MA Film Studies, University of Nottingham (2005)
BA English/Media Arts Studies, Brigham Young University (2003)
Maria Selene Bose
mbose@uci.edu
My interests include: aesthetic, performative, theoretical, and material
relationships between visual media, in the formation of subjectivity.
B.A., English Literature, Stanford University, 2006.
Patrick Boyle
Daynah Burnett
dburnett@uci.edu
Art and Non-fiction Editor, So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, 2005-2007; TV/Film writer, PopMatters
Interests include: Horror Cinema, Post-9/11 Theory, Trauma Studies, Postmodernism, Genre Studies, Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Imagery, Korean New Wave and The Uncanny.
M.F.A., Non-Fiction Writing, George Mason University, 2007
B.A., English with Honors, George Mason University, 2004
Meghan Chandler
meghan.chandler@uci.edu
Blog staff-writer, FilmClick
Research interests: the body in film; fragmentation; human simulacra – dolls, mannequins – in visual cultural; postmodern horror films; Hans Bellmer and Surrealist photography; psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theories
B.A., summa cum laude, in Cinema & Cultural Studies (honors) and Psychology, SUNY Stony Brook
David Goetz
Krystal R. Hauseur
khauseur@uci.edu
VSGSA Representative 2006-2007
VS Conference Committee 2007
Octopus, Co-Managing Editor, Vol. 3, "Import/Export"
American and Asian art. Emphasis in Asian American Studies. Current interests: nationalism, globalism, identity, race, gender, politics of seeing, cultural studies.
M.A., Art History, SFSU. M.A. Thesis: The Displacing Gaze: An analysis of Roger Shimomura's "Campfire Diary"
B.A., History/Art History, UCLA
Laura Holzman
lholzman@uci.edu
Words on screen in popular culture (and other intersections of words and images)
B.A., Art History, Swarthmore College, 2006
Cecilia Joulain
cjoulain@uci.edu
Film and Media Studies Faculty Search Representative, 2006-2007
Cultural Studies; U.S. countercultural film of the ‘60s and ‘70s; representations of Black and Latino social movements; theories of realism in media studies; youth and the coming-of-age; urbanism; underclass identity and geographic affiliation in hip-hop; people’s histories.
B.A. English and Cinema Studies, Rutgers University, 2005
A. Lee Laskin
alaskin@uci.edu
Interests: Contemporary French Thought; Experimental Film and Video;
Critical Science Studies; Media theory; History of Photography;
Experimental Ethnography.
Lectured in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at UCSC
and the Political Science department at San Francisco State. Editor of
Continuum Press' recent book "The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty,
Pragmatism and Deconstruction". The working title of my dissertation
is "Nocturnal Omissions: The Histories of Night Vision."
M.A., Visual Studies, UCI
M.A., Environmental Studies/Social Political Thought, York University.
B.A., Honors, Philosophy, University of Victoria
B.A., Psychology, University of Victoria
Eric Morrill
www.ericmorrill.com
Art since 1945; Critical Theory; Contemporary French Thought; Networking Media; Automatic Processes in Art.
M.A., Métiers et Arts de l'Exposition, mention T.B. (highest honors), Université Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne, France
M.A. Thesis: "Aux Limites de la rétrospective: Amor vacui, horror vacui"
Coursework in Aesthetics, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
Coursework in Photography (practice) and Art Theory, Image Ouverte, France
B.A., Music, Magna Cum Laude, Amherst College
Susan King Obarski
sobarski@uci.edu
Research interests include the intertextuality between visual images and literary works, social constructions of gender and their impact on art and theory, and the imbrication of politics and art from the 19th century to the present. With broader interests in how these issues manifest in both ancient and modern cultures, my work focuses primarily on European modernism, especially in England and Germany in the early twentieth century.
MA, University of California, Riverside
Thesis: The Reception of German Art and Theory in England from 1908-1938
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yoshi Salaverry
Conference Committee 2007
Critical theory, philosophy, theory and history of media networks.
A.B., English Literature, University of Chicago, 2004
Peter Schweigert
pschweig@uci.edu
Formal analysis; Spiritual in film and issues of representation thereby raised; Film amongst the other arts; Modernism; Paradoxical intersection of high and low; Ontology of the film image.
M.F.A., Film Studies, Boston University, 2004
B.A., English/Music, Calvin College, 2000
Lara Schweller
lschwell@uci.edu
Relationships between new media and the body, public space, and motion;
Comparative arts; 20th Century culture and cultural revolutions
B.A., Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 2007
Amy Scott
scotta@uci.edu
American Art, with emphasis on the 20th century West. Landscape, occupation, and development in the West; regionalism and labor; contemporary Native and Chicano art.
M.A., Art History, University of Missouri
B.A., Art History, University of Kansas
Tim Seiber
Film and Media Studies Graduate Representative 2006-2007
Conference Committee 2007
Christina Spiker
cspiker@uci.edu
Japanese Contemporary Art, Critical Theory Emphasis.
Current Interests: cultural studies, globalization, Orientalism, abject and grotesque art and their related subcultures, transgression in art
B.A., Honors, East Asian Studies, Ursinus College, 2007
Peng-yi Tai
Cindy Urrutia
Erik Watschke
Ken Yoshida
II. PH.D. CANDIDATES/ABD
Daniele Albright
Theories of text/image relationships from Enlightenment up through contemporary though, the shifting conceptual frameworks of post-1960 art, and contemporary technology’s impact on cognition in visual and literary representation.
M.F.A., Writing/Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts
B.F.A., Sculpture, New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Design
Chris Balaschak
c.balaschak@uci.edu
VSGSA Representative 2007-2008
Conference Committee 2008
Photography and photobooks after 1945; Issues of authorship, indexicality and reproducibility in documentary photography; Institutional history; National, corporate and civic identities; Landscape studies
Tentative dissertation title: Unstable Ground: photography books and the post-war landscape, 1958-1974
M.A., Criticism and Theory program, Art Center, 2005
B.A., Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU, 1998
Ted Barron
Nonfiction film theory, avant-garde film praxis and theory, race and realism.
M.S., Film Studies, Boston University
Nathan Blake
blaken@uci.edu
Indiscernabilities, duration, embodiment, synesthesia, cyborg consciousness, rhizomes.
M.A., Media Studies, New School University, NY. Thesis: The Body is the Screen: Embodiment at the Video Interface
B.A., Art, Hartwick College, NY
Mark K. Cunningham
mkcunnin@uci.edu
Art History Graduate Representative 2007-2008
My interests include: natural history museum dioramas; models and
miniatures; realism; theatricality; staged and set-up photography; found and vernacular photography.
M.A. Thesis (2006): "Between Critique and Pleasure: Classifications by and of Three Contemporary Germany Media Taxonomists — Gerhard Richter, Hans-Peter Feldmann, and Joachim Schmid"
B.A., Art History, Loyola University of Chicago, 2003
Vuslat Demirkoparan
vdemirko@uci.edu
Film and Media Studies Graduate Representative 2005-2006
Conference Committee 2006
Interests include postcolonial critique, political theory,
Orientalism, cultural studies, race critical theories, and
contemporary Turkish visual culture.
M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine, 2006
B.A., English and Studio Art, UC Riverside, 2004
Shahriar Fouladi
fouladis@uci.edu
Superman, superheroes, modern American heroism, and comic book culture. The Body—changing ideals, transformation, destruction, and destructiveness. U.S. Popular Culture. Mass Culture Theory. Television and Cultural Studies. Fascist/Nazi aesthetics and propaganda. Nationalism/the Nation (as imagined through media). Theories of realism.
M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine, 2005
Eva Friedberg
efriedbe@uci.edu
Octopus Co-Managing Editor, Vol. II-III
The politics of public space; architecture/urban planning and other apparatuses of bodily control; identity and the city; public art; art activism; radical democracy; critical theory. Working doctoral dissertation title: Lawrence Halprin's Urban Plazas (1960-1976): The
Creative Process, Community, and the Spatial Politics of Landscape Architecture*
M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine, 2004
B.A., Visual Studies and Mass Culture, UC Berkeley, 2001
Ginger Hill
evhill@uci.edu
VSGSA Representative 2005-2006
Conference Committee 2006
Atlantic Visual Culture of the 18th -19thc; African-American Studies; history of portraiture and subject formation; Reconstruction and the history of US public education; pedagogy; race and representation; nationalism; production of sameness; 19thc. photography; and a passion for colorful quilts.
B.A., Thesis: Re-(Dis)Covering History and Subjectivity: The Artwork of Carrie Mae Weems, New College of Florida, 1999
Family Heritage House Museum (http://mcc1.mccfl.edu/heritage/), 2000-2003
Douglas Hodapp
dhodapp@uci.edu
Film & TV studies; Hollywood history, stardom, and style; popular culture.
M.A., Media Arts, University of Arizona
Shelleen Greene
Garnet Hertz
http://www.conceptlab.com/ (Homepage)
http://www.conceptlab.com/uci/phd/ (PhD progress)
Research Interests: sociotechnical change, new media, artists and innovation, media in transition, media technologies, media archaeology, history of information technology, dead media. Other interests: media art practice & history, animals/machines, automata,
robotics & biorobotics.
Stefka Hristova
hristovs@uci.edu
Documentary Photography, Cultural Studies.
Jordy Jones
jordyj@uci.edu
History and Theory of Photography and Photo-based Practices, 20th Century Avant-Gardes especially Dada, Neo-Dada and Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Critical Theory, Queer Studies, Community Formation, Activist Practices, Subject Formation, Critical Autobiography, Psychoanalysis, Bad Subjects and Mutable Bodies, Contested Borders and Permeable Membranes, Curatorial Studies, Film and Media Studies, New Media, The Archive, History of Art Trade, Collecting and Loot.
Ph.D. Research on Self Representation of Gender and Somatic Ambiguity in Photography. Dissertation Title: "The Ambiguous I: Photography, Gender, Self."
M.A., Museum Studies, San Francisco State University. M.A. Thesis: "Grey Areas in the Black Market: The Trade in Afghan Antiquities."
B.A., Conceptual and Information Arts, San Francisco State University
Yuka Kanno
Feminist film theory, queer studies, queer film criticism, theories of representation, visuality, and embodiment. Currently working on a dissertation theorizing queer/lesbian visual subjectivity in Japanese visual culture
Kelly Kirshtner
kkirshtn@uci.edu
Octopus Co-Managing Editor, Vol. I-II; Editorial Board, Vol. III
My dissertation theorizes anomalies and errata in film sound, unsettled aural/visual perspectives, tragic microphones, radio vision, sonic weapons, and fog. Research interests include critical theory, science/technology, the Archive, audio-visual geographies, fusion, illusion, failure. Video theory. The uncanny. Horror, sci-fi, surrealism, and the Fantastic. War and Cinema. Hysteria. Sound in literature. Underwater visual and sonic events. Voice(s). Ventriloquism and dubbing. Psychoanalysis.
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002
Vanessa Meikle Schulman
vmeikle@uci.edu
Octopus Co-Managing Editor, Vol. IV
Art History Faculty Search Representative 2006-2008
Conference Committee 2006
Octopus Submissions Editor, Vol. II-III
Dissertation topic: Representations of industrial sites, machinery, and the laboring body in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture.
M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine. Thesis: "Envisioning American Progress: Thomas Moran and the World of Industry in Late-Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture"
A.B., Art History and American Civilization, Brown University
Heather Murray
murrayh@uci.edu
VSGSA Representative 2005-2006
Dissertation will explore the bodies produced by biometric technology. Other interests include theories of globalization and societies of control, surveillance technology, body and performance art, gender/sexuality studies.
Cynthia Napoli-Abella
email: cnapolia@uci.edu
Installation art from Latin America and its intersection with Psychoanalytic theory and subaltern theory. Dissertation work focuses on subaltern art and Object Relations theory
Working dissertation title: Tony Capellan, Ana Mendieta, and Eliseo Silva: Psychic colonization, subaltern art and cultural communities.
MA: Art History, San Francisco State University
BA: Art History and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Jessica Ostrower
j.ostrower@uci.edu
VSGSA Representative 2007-2008
Postwar art in Europe and the United States; technology, destruction, and
national identity in the art of Great Britain, Germany, and Japan;
paroxysm of the project of the (neo-)avant-garde in the 1960s; politics of
the avant-garde as historical category.
MA: UCI, Visual Studies, 2006
BA: Barnard College, Columbia University, Middle Eastern Languages and
Cultures, 2002
Natalie Phillips
nephilli@uci.edu
Masters Thesis Title: "The Radiant (Christ) Child: Keith Haring's Transformation of the Iconography and Ideals of the Jesus Movement"; Working Dissertation Title: "The Pop Apocalypse: Keith Haring's and Kenny Scharf's Remaking of Religion in Contemporary Art." Other interests include healing rituals in contemporary art practice and Feminist theory.
M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine, 2003
B.A., Art History and Religious Studies, University of the Pacific, 2000
Denise Rogers
Interests include but are not limited to critical race theory, feminist theory, representations of race in American art from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries, postcolonial theory and the lack thereof in the U.S. Gender/sexuality in visual images to reinforce power relations (the gaze). Representations of black femininity in confined spaces in the paintings of Eldzier Cortor. Dissertation working title: Becoming Black Woman: Eldzier Cortor's Visualization of the Black Female Body
Jennifer Rogers
Critical and feminist theories; late twentieth-century European film; post-1968 histories; experimental film.
Sean Rowe
srowe@uci.edu
Contemporary art and material culture, visual culture of the American 'frontier,' high modernist sculpture and phenomenology, gender studies, post-colonial theory.
M.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago
B.A., Studio Art and Art History, UC Davis
Sami Siegelbaum
ssiegelb@uci.edu
Conference Committee 2007
Postwar French Art, May
1968, urban space, institution critique, critical theory.
B.A., Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU, 2003
Arden Stern
Webmaster 2006-2007
Conference Committee 2007
Branding, 'good' design, typography, critical theory.
B.A., Art-Semiotics, Brown University, 2002
Thomas Stubblefield
2007-2008 VSGSA Representative
2007-2008 Conference Committee
Cultural Memory (Erasure, Absence, Forgetting), Sept. 11, Deleuze, Benjamin, Freud
B.A. English, University of South Carolina
B.A. Media Arts, University of South Carolina
M.A. Art History, University of Illinois--Chicago
Mary Trent
mtrent@uci.edu
Research interests: 20th century American art, outsider art, and visual
studies.
Dissertation: "Innocence Reproduced: Children and Mass Media in the Art of
Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger"
M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine. Thesis: "Absent-Presences in the Art of
Henry Darger."
B.A., Art History, University of Chicago. Thesis: "Trouble with Gender?
Reinterpreting the Criticism on Jackson Pollock."
Mariana Razo Wardwell
mrazowar@uci.edu
Mexican Studies: Representations of Indigenous Mexico in Modernity.
Messianic Narratives in the Americas: Baroque Regimes of Representation,
Soteriology and Secret Histories. The Dialectical Avant-Garde and
Ethnography, Postcolonial Critique, Psychoanalysis.
B.A., Fashion Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
M.F.A., Studio Art, UC Irvine
Nicole Woods
woodsn@uci.edu
Dissertation title: 'Gift Event': Alison Knowles, Fluxus, and the
Enigmatic Work of Art
Interests: My work attempts to navigate the intersection of
modern/contemporary art history, women's studies, performance studies, and
critical theory.
Awards: Humanities Research Grant (2005;2006); Dissertation Research Grant
(2007); Teaching Assistant Awards (2003;2007)
M.A. Visual Studies, UC Irvine (2005)
B.A. Art History, UCLA (1999)
Bahar Zaker
bzaker@uci.edu
Dissertation in progress entitled: Surrealism's Aesthetic Turn: Visual Culture and Memory in Interwar France
Octopus Special Content Editor, Vol. II - III
M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine, 2004
B.A., Philosophy, Art History and Criticism, SUNY Stony Brook, 2000
III. RECENT GRADUATES
Francesca Bavuso, Ph.D. (2004)
fmbavuso@hotmail.com
Nineteenth and twentieth-century European art, critical theory, gender and feminist studies, the nature of visuality. Dissertation: The Gravity of Memory: Recollection and Forgetting at the Bibliotheque Imperiale of Napoleon III. BA in Classics, MA in Women's Studies.
Joanna Bouldin, Ph.D. (2004)
https://mercury.scat.temple.edu/
Feminist media theory; constructions of race, gender and the body in 20th-century popular culture; animation theory and history. Dissertation: The Animated and the Actual: Toward a Theory of Animation, Live-Action, and Everyday Life. BA in Art History from Emory University.
René Thoreau Bruckner, Ph.D. (2007)
rbruckne@usc.edu
Histories and theories of cinema and pre-cinematic visual culture; early film; avant-garde and experimental film; psychoanalysis; theories of technology; philosophies of time; time travel; Hong Kong action film; cryptozoology. Dissertation: The Art of Disappearance: Duration, Instantaneity, and the Conception of Cinema.
Tobey Crockett, Ph.D. (2007)
tcrockett@earthlink.net, www.tobeycrockett.com, (805) 972-2804
Critical theory of new media, interactivity and virtual worlds, special effects, the art history of technology, and the metaphysics of cyberspace. Dissertation: The Camera as Camera: New Subjectivities in 3D Virtual Worlds.
M.A., Critical Theory, Art Center College of Design, 2000
B.A., Art History, Barnard College, 1988
Analisa Leppanen-Guerra, Ph.D. (2004)
Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde with emphasis on Dada and Surrealism. Subsidiary interest in Baroque and Modern Spanish art and performance. Theoretical interest in the space/time of childhood, the carnivalesque, and the irrational. Dissertation: The Child Lost in the Garden of Time: Childhood & the Fourth Dimension in the Works of Joseph Cornell. MA from University of Chicago Divinity School (1993); MA in Art History from University of Illinois at Chicago (1998).
Patricia Levin, Ph.D. (2001)
Dissertation: About Turns: Minimalism to Excess in the Films of Yvonne Rainer.
Amy Marver, Ph.D. (2002)
Dissertation: Home-made Modern: The Museum of Modern Art and the Domestication of European Modernism in America, 1929-1939.
Sheila C. Murphy, Ph.D. (2002)
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/sac/faculty_staff/murphy.htm
History of visual technologies and spectatorship, theories of visual culture and contemporary media, television studies. Dissertation: Lurking and Looking: Media Technologies and Cultural Convergences of Spectatorship, Voyeurism, and Surveillance.
Janice Neri, Ph.D. (2003)
janiceneri@boisestate.edu
Visual culture of Northern and Central Europe, 1400-1700; art and science, collecting practices, and optical instruments in early modern Europe. Dissertation: Fantastic Observations: Images of Insects in Early Modern Europe. BA in History (U.S./Latin America) from Pomona College.
Beth Rayfield, Ph.D. (2004)
Graduate Feminist Emphasis
bethrayfield@hotmail.com
Nineteenth-century North American photography and popular culture, feminist theory, visual technologies in the classroom. Dissertation: "'Her Apparent Admiration and the Intensity of her Gaze:' Gender, Visuality and the Stereoscopic Viewing Experience."
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