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Jamie Berthe is a first year M.A. student in the Cinema Studies program, where her studies in film are colored by a strong interest in continental philosophy. Ultimately, Jamie hopes to pursue a suitable marriage of the two disciplines at the doctoral level.
Alice Black is a first year Phd student in the cinema studies department. She completed her BA in English Literature and MA in Film studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. An old fashioned gal, she is interested in the criminally under-theorised areas of French film and psychoanalysis. She likes plastic jewellery, tardiness and stripes, and dislikes writing about herself in the third person.
Nate Brennan is a first-year MA student in the Cinema Studies Department. His interests include postwar American film, postwar atomic culture and the histories of film audiences and exhibition practices. He comes from Delaware, which is not a commonwealth, but is, in fact, actually a state.
Katie Brewer Ball is an MA Candidate in NYU's Performance Studies Programs. She has a fondness for children's science fiction/fantasy tales, low budget media projects, and fandom.
Lisa has attended NYU consecutively since 1999. Before that, she lived in Nebraska.
Abbey Butcosk is a senior majoring in Cinema Studies with a minor in French. She wishes she watched more movies, but her excessive napping frequently keeps her from doing so.
Dan Chyutin is a first year MA student in the Cinema Studies department at NYU. He received his BFA degree in film production from Tel Aviv University in 2005.
Cara Cusumano is a first year MA student in Cinema Studies at NYU. She earned her undergraduate degree from Barnard College in 2005 with a major in English and a concentration in Film.
David De Benedetto has produced and directed independent features, documentaries and animated shorts including Curve, a documentary about plus-size models' struggles in the fashion industry. He is currently employed as an advertising art director while pursuing a Masters in Cinema Studies at NYU.
Michael V. Dow is a 2nd-year Ph.D student who loves cartoons but can't seem to get around the Disney monolith.
Tarkan is an MA student in cinema studies. He can no longer afford to drink good scotch, as he has replaced his wallet with an ascetic devotion to cinema.
Leo Goldsmith is very close to having a Masters in Cinema Studies. He writes for a few online film journals, works for a filmmaker, and is determined not to die of starvation or return to working in advertising.
David Kentley Harvey is a first-year MA in Cinema Studies and also holds a BA from the department (2002). He once had a chinchilla named Robespierre, who recently left us. David hopes to continue pursing interests that include 'filmic subjectivities,' difference and phenomenology in a doctoral program. He still misses Robespierre.
Anuja is a first-year Ph.D. candidate in Cinema Studies at NYU, and received her B.A, M.A and M.Phil in English Literature from University of Delhi, India. She is interested in cultural as well as interdisciplinary studies, postcolonial cinema, contemporary popular Indian cinema and documentary.
Molly Kim is a first year MA student in the cinema studies. She has a BA in German and French from Sungshin Women's University, Korea and also a BA in Communication Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington where she was taught under James Naremore. Before she came to NYU, she had various jobs. She has worked as a tour guide in Chicago, fashion/hair model in Seoul and restaurant manager in New York City. Now she wants to settle in film studies where she can find her real self. During weekends, she writes articles for her foodie website which is her other passion.
Katie Kohn is originally form California, but does not expect to be returning anytime soon. She is graduating with a degree in Cinema Studies and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies this May and hopes to attain a masters degree in Media and Cultural Studies in the U.K next year. This year, Katie has worked at the London based publishing house, Verso Books, as well as at the NYU student paper, the Washington Square News, as both the film editor and a weekly columnist. Currently, she is working at Ross Katz productions, producer of "Lost in Translation" and the upcoming "Marie Antoinette." You can read her column, "Obscene and Heard" at www.nyunews.com.
Rebecka Mamer is a Master's candidate in Cinema Studies at NYU. Her interests lie in contemporary non-Hollywood cinema, and she can't wait for the baseball season to start.
Étienne Meunier is a MA student in Performance Studies at NYU. He studies gay sex cultures and their relation to porn.
JP Meyer is a first year MA student in Cinema Studies. His research interest are in New Korean Film and in representations of gender in Japanese popular culture.
Evan O'Connell is an undergraduate English and Cinema Studies student writing a thesis on contemporary American film criticism. He likes Africa and DVDs, but not African DVDs.
Alex Perry is a senior majoring in Film Production, although he is a Cinema Studies student at heart.
Wyatt is a first-year PhD in Cinema Studies. He used to be a chef and a rocket scientist. He is not sure what his dissertation topic will be, though he is pretty sure it will have something to do with movies.
Ryan Scanlan is an MA Student at The Graduate Center, CUNY in the Liberal Studies program. He holds a BA in English (NYU '04) His interests include the New Narrative (Cooper, Acker), subcultures, the philosophy of language, Kristeva, Lacan and Josh Wheaton. He hopes to continue his education in a doctoral program studying linguistics and literature.
Priyadarshini Shanker is a first-year Masters' candidate in the Cinema Studies department. She did her undergraduate in Media Studies and received a Masters' at a filmmaking school in India. She has worked with independent films, low-budget features, television and the print medium in India.
Lynley Shimat Lys recently began her first year in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) MA program in the Cinema Studies Department. Her undergraduate career involved Comparative Literature, Hebrew, Russian, English and some Graduate Film Studies classes at UC Berkeley. Her current research interests involve Jewish culture and its intersections with early film, performance studies, gender theory, and intermedia.
Kurt Shulenberger is a first-year MA student in Cinema Studies at New York University. He received a BA in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 2004.
Joanna Slotkin, a first-year Masters student in Cinema Studies, earned her undergraduate Cinema Studies and English degrees in 2005 from the University of Chicago. Her interests lie in the intersections between Hollywood and the American avant-garde.
Jim Tan earned his BA at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and currently works toward an MA in Cinema Studies at NYU. He is a screenwriter and an avid videogamer.
Ray Vichot is originally from Miami. He graduated from MIT in 2004 (SB Comparative Media Studies). He is interested in fan/producer relationships, global popular culture, fan production, comics, and animation.
Amber Westcott-Baker is a first-year M.A. in the Cinema Studies program. She earned her B.A. in Film Studies and Psychology and her B.F.A. in Film Production from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is married to a pyromaniac chemist and hopes to attain a PhD, and then put it to use warping young minds as a university professor.
Victoria E. Wunsch is a first-year masters student in the Cinema Studies program. She has completed a graduate certificate in Documentary Filmmaking from the George Washington University and earned her B.A. in Spanish from the University of Richmond. She has worked at the SmithsonianÕs National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC) in the Film and Video Center and in the Office of External Affairs; the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC); and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain).
Melissa is a 2nd year M.A. student in the Cinema Studies department. She received her B.S. in French Language from Georgetown University in 1989, and her interests include genre and auteur theory. Melissa plans to pursue a PhD in Cinema Studies.