Waylon Wilson

Samuel N. W. Blake

Zhen Cheng

Rejoice Abutsa

Rejoice Abutsa is a writer, film producer, and Ph.D. student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Her research focus uses Black Media Studies, Gender & Women Studies, Film Theory, and Digitality to explore the transnational circuits of New or neo-Nollywood.

Andy Colpitts

Gina Goico

Gina Goico (she/they/ella/elle) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and self-proclaimed necia. Through their work, Goico navigates their identity and the spaces where they exist in the Dominican Republic and the United States. Through their career they have come to create a diverse body of work that ranges from embroidery to installations, ink drawings and performance. Goico also facilitates spaces for temporary communities and dialogues around healing intergenerational trauma through Love…

Victoria Sorensen

Victoria Pihl Sorensen (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student at Cornell University in the Department of Performing and Media Arts minoring in Science and Technology Studies. Her research examines media in public health and social hygiene initiatives in early 20th century Denmark and what this eugenic legacy can tell us about the functions of contemporary social democracy, its myths and meanings, in Denmark as well as in the United States.

Victoria holds an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from The…

Ariel Dela Cruz

Jonathan Cicoski

Brian Sengdala

(he/they pronouns)

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University researching Cambodian and Asian American studies, race, performance, sound, music, memory, refugeehood, and disability. I’m thinking about performance as memory work and study how second-generation Cambodian and Asian Americans use performance as critical fabulations in order to understand their own place in the world. Within this framework of memory, my sites of study range from…

Samuel N. W. Blake

Sam Blake (all pronouns welcome) is a scholar/educator/theatre maker and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Sam’s dissertation project, tentatively titled Mincing and Screaming: Male and Masculine of Center Identified Femme Performance, examines the history, aesthetics, and politics of what might often be called effeminate performance practices in the 20th century United States. As part of the Ph.D., Sam is pursuing minor concentrations in both…

Andy Colpitts

Andy Colpitts is a theatre artist and scholar from the hills of northern New England. He holds a BA from Brown University in Theatre & Performance Studies and Comparative Literature and an MA in Performing and Media Arts from Cornell University. His scholarly interests include rural identity, political theatre, nostalgia, and popular performance.

Doorim Kim

Doorim is a versatile artist who explores a wide range of media, including film (fiction, animation, and experimental) and video. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, she is currently based in upstate New York, where she passionately creates art. Her films have garnered significant recognition, being screened at prestigious events such as the Misen-scene Film Festival in Korea, as well as in the United States and various other countries.

Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz

Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz’s research is at the intersection of performance studies, illegality and citizenship, borderlands studies, critical phenomenology, and critical dance studies. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a research and teaching focus on creative ethnography and (Afro)Latinx/Latin American undocumented cultural production. He’s an assistant professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Alongside Dr. Debra Castillo here on campus and colleagues at Syracuse and Colgate, he is also the co-founding member of the (Afro)Latinx, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous Performance working group—which is open to the public. He was most recently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society for the Humanities from 2020 to 2022. In addition to writing about performance’s role in transforming society and ideas of citizenship, he is a choreographer and professional dancer whose work has been presented internationally.He’s the former managing director of San Francisco’s Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Dance Studies Association. His research has been published in peer-reviewed and public journals, as well as in performance-related anthologies.

Milad Sotoudeh

Milad was a lecturer atSoore Universityand taught filmmaking at different levels. He is also a researcher interested in studying Iranian cinema with a concentration on feminist and gender studies.He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in many journals, such asFeminist Media StudiesandQuarterly Review of Film and Video. Milad has also written some chapters in peer-reviewed books, which will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing, and I.B Tauris. He collaborated as areviewerwithFeminist Media Studiesjournal in 2020. He wonThe Best Article of the Year in the 3rd Annual Iranian Cinematic Research Award andconducteda research project forTechnology Development and Cinema Studies of the Iranian Organization of Cinemaabout the relation between Iranian cinema and haptic theory.