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Kris Paulsen named 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow at University of Toronto’s Centre for Culture and Technology
Prof. Kris Paulsen has been named a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Culture and Technology. The Center, founded in 1963 to support the work of media scholar…

PhD candidate Dareen Hussein attends the 2024 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Boston
In March 2024, PhD candidate Dareen Hussein traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the 2024 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. She presented her paper “Resurrecting the ‘Songs…

Field Notes: April Riddle, PhD Student, Reflects on Helen Molesworth’s Visit
To highlight the department’s engagement with contemporary curatorial practice, we host and co-host events throughout the year that feature well-known curators and practitioners in the field…

Professors Andrew Shelton and Carlos Rivas Take Students to the Cleveland Museum of Art
Over the course of an entire Sunday morning and afternoon, Professors Andrew Shelton and Carlos Rivas took students from their Spring 2024 classes on a field trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art,…

PhD Student Peter Smyth Conducts Research at the Met and other NYC Exhibitions
Over spring break, PhD student Peter Smyth traveled to NYC to see an important exhibition at the Met, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” While there, they also visited the…

Professors from UC Irvine and University of Chicago participate in a workshop by Professor Namiko Kunimoto
Professor Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine) and Professor Thomas LaMarre (University of Chicago) traveled to Ohio State to participate in a workshop for Namiko Kunimoto's book…

PhD Candidate Lauren Caskey Conducts Research at the Art Institute of Chicago
PhD Candidate Lauren Caskey recounts her recent trip to Chicago to conduct dissertation research:
"As I entered the Contemporary Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, I saw Alma Thomas…

Professor Namiko Kunimoto Publishes New Article in the Review of Japanese Culture and Society
Professor Namiko Kunimoto has a new publication: "Olympic Labor and Displacement: Babel and Its Towers." in the Review of Japanese Culture and Society.

Maika Kagawa Bahr Receives Graduate Teaching Award
The department congratulates graduate student Maika Kagawa Bahr for receiving the Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA). This award is Ohio State’s highest recognition of the exceptional…