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Roberto Reyes Ang is a first year M.A. student in Cinema Studies. He is also in the certificate program in Culture and Media. He was born and raised in Manila, but has mostly lived in various parts of the US including Alaska. He received his BA in Comparative Literature from UCLA with minors in French and Spanish. His research interests include gender and racial representations in Philippine and Vietnamese literature and cinema and representations of Philippine and Vietnamese identities in foreign literature and cinema.
Zach Campbell is a first year MA in the Cinema Studies program (where he also did his undergrad, class of '05). He is still trying to figure out just what his research interests are.
Native Texan Robyn Citizen is a second-year M.A. student in NYU’s Cinema Studies department. Her undergraduate background in the areas of political science, philosophy and experience as a student organizer influences her current research interests in national cinema, popular genres and the representations of gender, race, and class. Robyn has guest lectured about the history and socio-cultural context of horror films at QCC and facilitated workshops on female representation in the media to girls ages 10-18. This is her first presentation at the student conference.
Diego Costa is a first-year MA student in the Cinema Studies department at NYU. He has a BFA. and MFA from the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. Diego is a filmmaker whose work has been featured in film festivals across the United States, Canada, Italy, India, Portugal, the Philippines and Brazil.
Paul Fileri is a second-year MA candidate in the Cinema Studies
department at NYU. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University in
2006 with a major in English and Comparative Literature and a minor
in French.
A native of Chicago, Dana C. Gravesen is a second-year MA candidate in the department of Cinema Studies. He received his BFA from the same department in 2004. This is Dana's fifth appearance at the student conference, having previously presented work on the representation of cultural paranoia and panic in self-reflexive horror, histories of discourse in United States horror fandom, star theory, and historiographically constructed narratology in cinematic passion plays. Current research includes sitcom narratology, contemporary queer studies related to the depiction and celebration of deviant sexuality in film and literature, and consumer governance related to food politics. He is also the founder and contributing editor of www.hypersext.com, a journal for the scholarly discussion of gender, sexuality, and identity.
Ben Horner is a second year M.A. student at NYU University. After pursuing a dual degree in English and Journalism with a minor in Film Studies at the University of Georgia, he is now pursuing his M.A. in Cinema Studies. This is his second time presenting at the NYU Cinema Studies Conference, and he is very pleased to be assisting the conference this year as a co-chair. He previously presented on the function of dream sequences in transgender cinema narratives. His academic interests are genre theory and queer theory. He has a penchant for horror films and Technicolor melodramas, as well as a weakness for Marlene Dietrich.
Myles David Jewell is a second year MA in New York University’s Cinema Studies Department. He is also pursuing a Certificate in the Culture and Media Program at NYU.
Martin Johnson is a second-year PhD student in the department of Cinema Studies. He has a master's degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor's degree in modern culture and media from Brown University.
Carolina Larrain was born in the UK in 1980 and moved to Chile in the mid 90s where she obtained a degree in Sociology and a degree in Documentary Film. She is currently following an MA in Cinema Studies and Certificate in Culture and Media at NYU, thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship and a Chilean Presidential Grant. Her main interests and research experience are linked to the representation of collective identities and film, with a focus on national identity(ies). She recently co-authored a book on Theories of Chilean Documentary Film in the 50s and 70s, and her autobiographical documentary film "Up-Rooted", opened the 2007 Passau Ibero-american Film Festival. At present she is following the last semester of her study program and is working on a documentary on Erotic Art with New York based artist, Carolyn Weltman.
Daniel C. Metz is currently a senior at New York University in the
department of Cinema Studies. His primary concern is in the history of
media changes, specifically issues of censorship, the emergence of
anti-canon cinemas, and the powers associated with cyber culture. He is
planning to begin his M.A. next year.
Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Makila Samia Meyers came to New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Arts in Screen Arts and Culture from The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Cinema Studies, and has completed several television and film production internships. Ultimately, she plans to pursue doctorate coursework in U.S. Communication Law and Policy.
Landon Palmer is currently working on his MA in Cinema Studies. He has a BA in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He hopes to have a job one day
Bryce J Renninger is a first year MA student in Cinema Studies at NYU. Academically, he is interested in viewing/fan cultures, national identity, and YouTube. He believes the most bittersweet feeling in the world is getting into a new TV series on DVD, thus not being able to accomplish anything else in life until every episode has been viewed.
Liz Stephens is a recent graduate of the Cinema Studies program at
Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She received her undergraduate
degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in both Music and
Communication Studies.Liz currently resides in New York City and plays percussion and
keyboard with a Brooklyn based band called The Mystery Keys.
Tim is currently enrolled in New York University's program in Interactive Telecommunications. After graduating from Calarts in 2003, he moved to Hollywood and worked as a sound editor on films, games, and commercials. He has recently become interested in the intersection of Amateur and Professional Media. Current projects include his thesis, LivelyHood.us, which explores user-generated maps as a vehicle for social commentary.
Michael Talbott is a second-year MA student in the Cinema Studies
department at NYU. Splitting his time between New York, San Francisco
and Buenos Aires, his current work is on the New Argentine Cinema and
transnational aesthetics in the age of globalization. He previously
headed the moving-image preservation program at the Bay Area Video
Coalition and received a BA in Cinema Studies from San Francisco State
University.
Miranda Tedholm earned a B.A. in literature from New College of Florida. As a 2005 Fulbright fellow to Germany, she taught English and American culture in German high schools, with an emphasis on film in the EFL classroom. Miranda will earn an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University this year. Last year's conference Vice-Chair, Miranda was a founding member, vice-president, and president of CASC (Cinema Appreciation and Scholarship Club), which has lent its support to this event since 2007. She hopes to continue her research at the doctoral level, focusing on contemporary documentaries and Cold-War-era educational films
Jaap Verheul (07/23/1984, The Netherlands) got his BA in Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, where he wrote his BA-thesis on the influence of 9/11 on the apocalyptic cinema. Currently, he lives in New York (New Amsterdam) and is in the first year of the Cinema MA program at New York University
* Biographies denoted with an asterisk (*) are ghost-written and do not necessarily reflect the actual thoughts, feelings, or reality of the persons in question; they were merely an alternative to not having any information about the presenter at all. The 2008 Cinema Studies Student Conference takes no responsibility for any misunderstandings these faux biographies may have caused.