University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biography Ceci is a media scholar interested in transmedia storytelling and representations of women, people of color, and queer people therein. Her past research has focused on representations of queer women of color in transmedia cartoons, and her current interests examines adaptation, nostalgia, and animated media. Education: B.A. English, The University of Texas at Austin …
Biography Clare studies what people make and do with and through digital technologies. Their work broadly explores how power contours the conditions and cultural objects by which human beings attach their bodies, identities, fantasies, and convictions to cyberspace. Clare promotes a vision of media literacy that attends critically to texts, performances, and subjectivities historically dismissed …
Biography Nicole Pacelli is a first-year PhD student in Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how black mixed race identities are constructed and perceived in cinema, with a focus on contemporary film and black diasporic cinema across national contexts. Her work explores how films connect mixed race experience to broader histories and how …
Biography Research Interests Jiwon Park is a PhD student in Media and Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on Korean American and Asian American media representations, their audiences, and diasporic identities. Education M.A. Media, Culture, and Technology, University of Virginia, 2024 B.S. Commerce and Media Studies, University of Virginia, 2023 Teaching Experience CA100: Introduction to Speech …
Biography Research Interests Areyana Proctor is a PhD student with research interests in mediated representations of Blackness, both in structural inequalities perpetuated and created based on these representations, and forms of activism and empowerment through and despite these representations. Education M.A. (University of Wisconsin – Madison) Communication Arts – Media and Cultural Studies B.A. (University …
Biography Overview Sara is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture with a PhD minor in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Drawing on her background in computer science, she investigates the social construction of digital technologies through discursive practices across different social worlds. Her work peers into the abstracted layers of digital and physical …