Graduate Student News 2021

Publications

Gary Kafer (Ph.D. candidate in CMS): recently published "Zoom in the past conditional" in Jump Cut (Spring 2021); “Queer Surveillance,” a special issue of Surveillance & Society 17.5 (2019) edited and introduced (pg. 592-601) with Daniel Grinberg; “Big Data Biopolitics: Computing Racialised Assemblages in Terrorist Watchlist Matching,” Digital Culture & Society 5.1 (2019): 23-42; “Surveillance Capitalism and its Racial Discontents,” Jump Cut 59 (2019): https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc59.2019/Kafer-Zuboff/index.html.

Pedro Doreste (Ph.D. candidate in CMS): research assistant on the ongoing exhibition "Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive."

Sasha Crawford-Holland (Ph.D. candidate in CMS): recently published article titled "The Birth of a Nation in Canada: Black Protest and White Denialism across Canada's Color Lines."

Ritika Kaushik (Ph.D. candidate in CMS): recently published book review essay on three Indian documentary cinema books published in November 2020 in the Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies for S. A. Chatterji,   "Filming Reality: The Independent Documentary Movement in India" "A Fly in the Curry: Independent Documentary Film in India";  "Documentary Films in India: Critical Aesthetics at Work". You can read these reviews now!

Amy Skjerseth (Ph.D. candidate in CMS): recently published article “Multiplying Mise-en-Scène: Found Sounds of The Night of the Hunter in Lewis Klahr’s Daylight Moon and Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema,” Film Criticism 44.1, 2020; received a UChicagoGRAD Graduate Global Impact Internship to teach and develop career programming in the Sound Arts and Industries Program at Northwestern University, 2020-2021.