Graduate Students
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Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
### Max Bowens mbowens@g.harvard.edu
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Film Study Center Fellow: 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
Max Bowens is a filmmaker and PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His research concerns the relationship between art and biometrics, and has been supported by the Getty Predoctoral...
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Yongyu Chen is a writer & a third-year PhD student in Film and Visual Studies. Their work concerns photography, queer theory, potentiality, & the ontology & ethics of worlds. They have a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Spanish from Cornell University.
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Olivia Crough is a PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies. She writes and teaches about 20th-century art and public media in the Americas, Europe, and former Soviet Union, with emphasis on activism and the politics of "realism," gender, and...
### Thotti Forneiro tforneirodealmeidacardoso@g.harvard.edu
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Graduate Student
Teaching Fellow
Teaching Fellow for AFVS 63
### Keisha Knight kknight[at]g.harvard.edu
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Teaching Fellow
Keisha is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University who has spent the majority of her adult life in Asia and New York City. Keisha holds a BA from Barnard College in Comparative Religion and an MA in Media Studies from Pratt...
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Kendra McLaughlin is a filmmaker, visual artist and researcher. At Harvard, she is pursing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. Her present work is interested in the ethics of care, body...
### Emilia Mello emello@g.harvard.edu
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Emilia Mello is an Brazilian-American filmmaker, artist and scholar based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her first feature documentary, SEM DEUS, SEM DEMÔNIO (No Kings), premiered at CPH:DOX in 2020 and played at the True/False Film Festival 2021 and MoMA Doc...
### Mahan Moalemi mahanmoalemi@g.harvard.edu
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Mahan Moalemi is a writer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “The Disabled Object: A Critique of Reparative Reason,” examines the forms of disablement among...
### Luise Mörke luisemoerke@g.harvard.edu
Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies
Luise Mörke's academic work revolves around the relation between aesthetic forms and global capitalism, specifically in post-reunification Germany. Before joining Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies as a PhD student, she studied Art...