HADIL ABUHMAID, PhD candidate, Media Studies
Research Interests: Film & Culture, Community Cultural Development, and Communication.
MELODY ALLISON, PhD, Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Degrowth, Science Communication, Podcasting
INTISAR ALSHAMMARI, PhD, English
Research Interests: Medieval Studies, Folkore, Digital Humanities
VASIL (WILL) ARGANELOV, PhD Communication and Media Studies
Research Interest: Gaming Communication, Media Psychology, Media Effects E-Sports, Interpersonal Communication
CHAILEN AUGUST, PhD, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies
Research Interests: Black studies, Hip Hop, Black Popular Culture, African Diasporic Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Mobility, Black Geographies, Afrofuturism
RODLYN-MAE BANTING, PhD, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Research Interests: Critical Filipinx Studies, Affect Theory, Whiteness Studies
NAHLA BENDEFFA, PhD, Communication and Media Studies
Research Interests: Critical Cultural Studies, Political Economy of the Media, Platform Studies, Food Media
AIDANA BOLATBEKKYZY, PhD, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Research Interests: Confinement Literature, Censorship, Spatial Politics, State Terrorism
DAKOTA BROWN, PhD, English
Research Interests: Environmental Humanities, Multispecies Studies, Extinction Studies, Media Studies, Literary and Critical Theory
ZOË GAMELL BROWN, PhD, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Research Interests: Boviander Ecological Knowledge, Caribbean Restorative Cartographies, Critical Autotheory, Critical Ccean Studies, Culinary Catharsis, Healing Praxis, Hyperrealism, Queer diaspora
ASHER CAPLAN, PhD, Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Media and Technology, Social/Political Epistemology (esp. trust, expertise, and misinformation), AI Ethics, American Pragmatism
SUE CARNEY, MA, Intermedia Music Technology
Research Interests: Data Sonification, Sound Cognition, Therapeutic Music
TERI CHEONG, PhD, Department of English
Research Interests: Queer and Disabled representations in pop culture and new media
GABRIELA CHITWOOD, PhD, History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Medieval Architecture, Digital Modeling and Reconstructions, Digital Humanities
ASH CONNELL-GONZALEZ, PhD, English
Research Interests: Comics and Comic Theory, Androids, Queer Studies, Post-Modern Narratives, New Media and Culture, Post/Transhumanisms, Digital Narratives
RYAN DAVIES, PhD, English
Research Interests: Game Studies, Tabletop Studies, Queer Studies, Disability Studies/Crip Theory, Critical Race Theory, Cinema Studies, Speculative Fiction
MEGAN FARMER, PhD, English
Research Interests: Popular Culture, Subcultures, Fan Studies
MICHAELA FLAHERTY, PhD, Communication and Media Studies
Research Interests: Themed Entertainment, Popular Culture Media Fandom, Television and Film Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies
GIOVANNI FRANCISCHELLI, PhD, Communication and Media Studies
Research Interests: New Media, Documentary Films, YouTube, Social Media, Radicalism, Ideology, Political Communication, Political Economy, Platforms
LAURA GATTIS, PhD, SOJC
Research Interests: The connection between politicized news sources and the core beliefs of their audiences regarding climate change
KATHLEEN ANN GEKIERE, PhD, English and Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Speculative Fiction, Video Games, Digital Humanities, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Posthumanism, Animal Studies, Science Fiction, Science Studies, Eco-feminism
SOPHIE GREWELL, PhD, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Research Interests: Trans-indigenous Relationality, Indigenous Cartographies, Hawaiian Mobilities, global Indigeneities, Indigenous Digital Methods
JOHN GUZMAN, MA, Media Studies
Research Interests: Environmental Criticism, Disability Studies, and Media
THEODORE HARRISON, PhD, Media Studies
Research Interests: How minority media representations function in American society, specifically how they interact with and impact minority populations
FRIDA HEITLAND, PhD, English
Research Interests: Comics Studies, Ecomedia, and Video Game Studies
CASSANDRA HOGLUND, MA, Folklore and Public Culture
Research Interests: Video Games as Vernacular Culture
MADISON KOOBA, PhD, English
Research Interests: Comics Studies, Film & TV Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Video Games Studies, Feminist Theory
PEARL LEE, PhD, Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Biopolitics; Neo-Marxism; 20th- and 21st- Century East Asian and Latin American literatures engaging with neoliberalism; Asian Diasporic Literature; Film, Animation and Comic Studies
RACHAEL SOL LEE, PhD, English and Environmental Studies
Research Interests: 21st and 22nd Century Fiction, Urban Landscapes, Queer Cultural Production, Affect Theory and Posthumanisms, Environmental Justice
MADALYNN MADIGAR, PhD, English
Research Interests: Indigenous Futurisms, Petro-cultural Studies, Media Studies, Energy Humanities
AISHWARYA MARATHE, PhD, Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Contemporary Diasporic Literature and Cinema in US/UK/France, South Asian Film, Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Ethics of Representation, Epistemology, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, Citizenship Studies, Poetics, Postmodernism
OLIVIA MATSUOKA, PhD, English
Research Interests: 20th and 21st-century speculative fiction, Asian/Asian American literature, narrative theory, postcolonial theory, digital humanities
MOLLY MCBRIDE, PhD, Anthropology
Research Interests: Queer cultural production in the US, metronormativity, folklore, and digital humanities
ANDREW MCLAUGHLIN, PhD, Media Studies
Research Interests: Commodification and representation of veterans and military culture in media; Visual Rhetoric, Persuasion, and experimental and documentary filmmaking
SAM MILLER, PhD, English
Research interests: Paracinema, Cinephilia, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Post-Cinema, Digitization, and Home Media
MARIAM NADEEM, PhD, Comparative Literature
Research Interests: 20th Century English, Arabic and Urdu Literature, Archives of Communist Internationalism in South Asia and the Middle East, Anthropological Critiques of Secularism
GOWRI NAIR, PhD, English
Research Interests: Comics, Visual Media and Culture, Media reception, Human Rights and Literature
Shao-Chi Ou, PhD, Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Island and Archipelagic Studies, Environmental Humanities, Comparative Media, Postcolonial Studies and Decoloniality, Translation Studies, Sinophone Studies, Francophone Studies, Caribbean Studies and Black Studies
NISHAT PARVEZ, PhD, Communication and Media Studies
Research Interests: Political Communication, Journalism, New Media, Trust in media, Gender and Identity, Critical Cultural Studies
JAMES PHILLIPS, PhD, Communication and Media Studies
Research Interests: Science Communication, Space Science, Space Policy, NASA, Narrative Paradigm, Framing Theory, Public Engagement with Science
GERARDO PISACANE, PhD, Romance Language
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Queer Studies and Television Studies, with a focus on online content providers such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and the changes they ignited within the television landscape.
GENEVIEVE J. PFEIFFER, PhD, English
Research Interests: Ecohumanities, Multispecies studies, and Mew Media.
RAMTIN RANJPOUR, PhD, Strategic Communications
Research Interests: Public Relations Management, Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Brand Culture, User Experience (UX), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Emerging Technologies, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
KISA SCHULTZ, PhD, English
Research Interests: Video Game Studies, Film & TV Studies, Cybernetics/Post-Humanism
CHELSEA SCHWARTZ, MA, Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Technology, Epistemological Effects of Technology, AI Ethics, Media Psychology, Surveillance Studies
SABRINA SONNER, PhD, Communications and Media Studies
Research Interests: Play Studies, Game Studies, Immersive media, and Community Formation
HAIFA SOULIMI, PhD, Political Science
Research Interests: Democratization, Politics of the MENA region and the Mediterranean including the role of mass media in political change; US foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa and Media representation of such policies
STEPHEN SSENKAABA, PhD, Communication and Media Studies
Research Interests: New Media, Storytelling, Folklore, Journalism Practice in Africa
ANU SUGATHAN, PhD, English
Research interests: Comics and Graphic novels, Postcolonial Theory, Visual Culture, South Asian Literature and Cinema.
SOFIA VICENTE-VIDAL, PhD, Anthropology
Research Interests: Heritage, Labor Politics, Indigeneity, Globalization, Transnationalism
NICK WIRTZ, PhD, Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Representation and indexicality in American, European, Japanese Visual Media (comics, photography, technology), Semiotics, Media Genealogy, Abstraction; Nonfiction; Visual Rhetoric; Ethics; Trauma
GEN WITTER, PhD, English
Research Interests: Comic Studies, Queer studies, Environmental Humanities, Digital Narrative and Media, Posthumanism
SHUXI WU, MA, Asian Studies
Research Interests: Platform Studies, Infrastructure Studies, Critical Internet and Algorithm Studies, Chinese Cyberspace, Platform Urbanism, Platform Capitalism
ASAKO YONAN, PhD, IRES
Research Interests: Asian American studies, Digital Humanities, Japanese American Incarceration, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
HAOPENG YUAN, PhD, Communication and Media Studies
Research Interests: Content-sharing Social Media, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence
ADA ZHANG, PhD, Sociology
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Digital Intimacy, Emerging Technology, Generative AI, Video Games, Qualitative Research Methods
TINGYU ZOU, PhD, Media Studies
Research Interests: Communication of health-related issues via new media