Cohort Year:
2020
Research Interests:
Landscape and waterscape studies; critical plant studies; STS; indigenous studies; agricultural histories and agroecology; media ecology; ecocriticism; aesthetics and histories of experimental cinema
Education:
M.A., Études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, 2014
Yangqiao Lu is a doctoral candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. She is interested in the conceptualization of geomedia through scientific and artistic abstractions and expressions found in ancient and contemporary media objects. Her dissertation centers on land as a category of cosmological analysis, looking at how contemporary media arts have turned to “traditional” and “alternative” cosmologies not only to critique modern modes of extraction and exploitation of resources but also to entertain alternative ways of imagining, inhabiting, and ordering land.