https://www.zdcusc.org/bios daily 0.75 2026-10-05 https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/sophia-ofosu monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/sean-sabye monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/fca820e7-40c7-4c3c-ad32-f03cd9ecd12a/Sean+Sabye+Headshot.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Sean Sabye Pronouns: he/him Advisor: Michael Renov Sean Sabye is a first-year MA in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies. He holds a BA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include biopolitics, phenomenology, melodrama, and the essay film. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/gabi-wrighten monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/3e42561b-35d6-4daa-96f7-0ad962114d34/Gabi+Wrighten+pic.jpeg ZdC MA Bios - Gabi Wrighten - Make it stand out Pronouns: she/her Advisor: Todd Boyd Gabi Wrighten is a second-year MA student in the Cinema & Media Studies division at the University of Southern California. She received her degree in Modern Culture and Media, Literary Arts, and English Nonfiction from Brown University in 2025. Her research focuses primarily on the politics of horror/disaster film and reality TV, topics that she has also focused on in industry roles at Amazon MGM Studios and Vertigo Entertainment. Outside of school, she enjoys reading romance novels, go kart racing, and watching the Dodgers win. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/isabelle-madorsky monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/f8d2723f-0847-4230-b2db-d65d86979831/Isabelle+Madorsky+pic.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Isabelle Madorsky Pronouns: she/her Advisor: Jennifer Hessler Isabelle Madorsky is a second year MA student currently studying affects of insanity and asylum horror film in USC's CAMS division. She also has a BA in Philosophy and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies from Grinnell College where she did research on affect, ghosts, and memory. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/qianxun-xu monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/234beaa2-c140-4427-9ce8-ec75318873d9/qianxun-with-conan-qianxun-xu-edited.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Qianxun Xu - Pronouns: she/her Email: qianxunx@usc.edu Advisor: Tara McPherson Qianxun Xu is a Master’s student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Prior to joining USC, she received a Master’s degree in Data Science from the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Xu’s research interests lie in the intersection of technology—specifically artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI—and the media landscape. Leveraging interdisciplinary methodologies, Xu explores the ethical, economic, and social ramifications of employing AI technologies in various aspects of media production, exhibition, distribution, and consumption. Her current research project examines computer programming languages’ ability to facilitate the development of multi-modal video games featuring non-binary characters and non-linear narratives. Beyond her academic life, Xu is a video game streamer, adopting a virtual character graphic design and persona. Her comrade mini-schnauzer Conan, who has proven to be an angel in disguise, has helped her withstand countless instances of cosmic malevolence. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/sophia-stolkey monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/735f0118-e1fe-4ac6-9410-7edb07f56008/ss4-3-sophia-stolkey-edited.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Sophia Stolkey - Pronouns: she/they Email: stolkey@usc.edu Advisor: Vicki Callahan Sophia Stolkey is an MA student in the Cinema and Media Studies division. She recently received her bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in Film Studies from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Sophia’s research interests lie somewhere in the many intersections between memory, haptics, biocentrism, and representations of childhood in moving image media. Past research endeavors have attempted to chart unravelings of identity in intercultural cinema through attention to kinesthetic joys and textures of memory. Outside of film and academia, Sophia was (and is) a passionate advocate for youth, with experience in outdoor education and public service. Now at USC, she enjoys the overabundance of coffee shop options and observing all the new flora and fauna in LA. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/max-yang monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/0b029119-6f5a-448c-a6e8-6be633247910/img_7346-3-max-yang.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Yiou (Max) Yang - Pronouns: she/they Email: yiouy@usc.edu Advisor: Akira Mizuta Lippit Yiou (Max) Yang is a first-year MA student in the USC CaMS program. Max Yang’s research explores how China’s queer community navigates socio-political landscapes. The term Ku’er, a phonetic adaptation of “queer,” captures an evolving yet contested space for queer identities in China. Max’s work examines how “queerness” functions both as a critical lens and a site of resistance, challenging entrenched hetero-patriarchal ‘normativity’ within restrictive cultural frameworks. Max holds a BFA in Photography from ArtCenter College of Design and an MS in Arts Administration from USC. Max’s academic and professional experiences reflect a commitment to bridging gaps in queer studies, particularly regarding the younger generation’s evolving expressions and experiences in China. While some scholars have explored queerness within Chinese socio-political contexts, Max’s work aims to spotlight the emerging influence of queer cultural movements like Voguing Shanghai. These cultural expressions serve as acts of resistance within a censored and conservative environment, questioning the dominant cultural narrative upheld by existing power structures. With a focus on transnational and intersectional perspectives, Max’s work also seeks to document and preserve the lived experiences and evolving identities of China’s queer communities, to present expressions of diverse identities without resorting to stereotypical or clichéd portrayals. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/camden-rider monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/ef9c5ac6-ef26-4430-9326-ff4960389f00/img_4618-camden-rider-edited-1.jpeg ZdC MA Bios - Camden Rider - Pronouns: he/they Email: camdenri@usc.edu Advisor: Tara McPherson Camden is a first-year MA. They graduated from Yale in 2023 with a degree in English. Their research interests are broad, but primarily focus on film festivals, queer theory, and intimacy on-screen. Outside of the academic world, you can find Camden thinking of a podcast he’ll never make, at a dance class, or rewatching old episodes of Wipeout. Camden looks forward to working with amazing scholars at USC. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/maryam-sindi monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/be361756-2069-487c-9071-1b3b928f6ee1/IMG_2130+-+Maryam+Sindi.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Maryam Sindi - Pronouns: she/her Email: sindi@usc.edu Advisor: Todd Boyd Maryam Sindi is a second-year M.A. student in Cinema and Media Studies at USC. A Saudi-American filmmaker and producer, her work explores cross-cultural collaboration and storytelling between Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, and the United States. She has produced short films and supported independent productions in a range of roles, from on-set crew to post-production. Her research and creative interests center on transnational cinema, media industries, and representations of identity in contemporary Arab and diasporic film. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/laura-gardnerlongo monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/5846bb3c-0863-4ad6-81ff-12175f0e8129/img_0595-laura-longo.jpeg ZdC MA Bios - Laura Gardner Longo - Pronouns: she/her Email: lglongo@usc.edu Advisor: J.D. Connor Laura Gardner Longo is an Emmy nominated producer and manager with over fifteen years of experience in the industry. After starting her career at CAA, Laura worked for Oscar winner Steve Zaillian’s production company Film Rites. While there, she oversaw the company’s dynamic film and television slate and worked on many exciting projects including Emmy award winning HBO miniseries The Night Of. After leaving Film Rites, Laura took a position as a producer, manager, and partner at The Mission Entertainment. While there, Laura oversaw the production slate and helped guide her talented clients towards major Hollywood successes including film and television projects at Searchlight Pictures, Disney +, Netflix, HBO, AMC, and Showtime. Laura produced HBO documentary Being Mary Tyler Moore, an excavation of the life and career of one of Hollywood’s most influential women. The film premiered at SXSW and was nominated for an Emmy, Critics Choice Award, and a PGA award. Laura is a graduate of UCLA’s Theater Film and Television program and is currently getting her MA in Cinema and Media Arts at USC. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/jessica-lindall monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/4c1bdaef-32fb-4972-9b21-ccac756af139/IMG_9883.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Jessica Lindall - Pronouns: she/her Email: lindall@usc.edu Advisor: Lan Duong Jessica Lindall is a second-year M.A. student whose research focuses on Asian American media and representation. She earned her B.A. in Communication Arts (Radio, TV, Film) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she completed a senior honors thesis on Asian American romantic comedies. Her project traced the history of representation in the genre and examined how contemporary works challenge and redefine the value of Asian American love. Currently, her research interests include exploring Asian American media through the lenses of identity politics, gender, sexuality, and audience studies. Most recently, Jessica interned at Screen Engine/ASI as a Film Analyst, contributing to theatrical audience research. Outside of her studies, she enjoys baking, thrifting, and discovering new music. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/yifei-li monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/32289929-61e9-40a5-8534-04fce7aed9a1/profile+zdc+-+Yifei+Li.png ZdC MA Bios - Yifei Li - Pronouns: she/her Email: yli56130@usc.edu Advisor: Kiki Benzon Currently doing research on the livestreaming industry in China and beyond, with particular attention to VTubing. Especially interested in policymaking and the power dynamics among governments, platforms, intermediaries (particularly livestreaming guilds), and streamers, and how these dynamics shape platform economies and labor conditions in the livestreaming industry. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/maya-ledesma monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/d38d2e99-9cff-4589-875b-7a11f8a9c267/img_4620-maya-ledesma-edited.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Maya Ledesma - Pronouns: she/they Email: mledesma@usc.edu Advisor: Laura Isabel Serna Maya is a first year Master’s student in the division of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Southern California. Originally from Pasadena, California, she received her Bachelor’s in Film and Media Studies from Amherst College in 2022. Her research interests lie in the intersection of fan studies, internet culture, and queer cinema. She is currently exploring the role interactive media plays in identity formation through an analysis of contemporary fandom culture. She is also interested in depictions of adolescence and explorations of gender and sexuality in film and television. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/marisa-kennedy monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/04ee5ac1-a190-473d-8aef-aa57725f7f85/marisakennedyheadshot-2025-1.jpeg ZdC MA Bios - Marisa Kennedy - Pronouns: she/they Email: mdkenned@usc.edu Advisor: Kara Keeling Marisa Kennedy is a graduate student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining USC, Marisa received an MA in Social Justice & Community Organizing from Prescott College. Their past research explored the mechanisms behind media’s delegitimization of Black women and femme activists fighting for social justice, and she continues to deepen her investigations of media as a culturally producing institution. Marisa is interested in Black people’s changing desires regarding visibility and is currently researching how these political investments in representation show up in scripted television. She is also interested in cultural legacies of and Black resistance to surveillance which dovetails with her visibility research. In addition to her academic pursuits, Marisa has a background in acting (Broadway and TV) and works as a writer and consultant for the television industry. More about that work can be found on their website www.marisakennedy.com https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/lissa-heineman monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/6ec203e3-b485-4af0-ad5c-74e12c268047/img_9134_-_lissa_heineman-edited.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Lissa Heineman - Pronouns: she/her Email: mlheinem@usc.edu Advisor: Henry Jenkins Lissa Heineman is from Queens, NY and completed her BA in Film Studies and English at Muhlenberg College. Her background is in administration, academic publishing, and writing. In undergrad, Lissa focused on screenwriting and transnational remix and transmedia studies through a variety of pop culture and cult properties. Currently she is fascinated by depictions and suspensions of reality, particularly in animation and streaming media. Her work encompasses Marxist theory, industry studies, affect, fan studies, participatory culture, and spectatorship — research that is informed by her background as a fangirl and drama student. In her spare time, Lissa plays Dungeons and Dragons, pets every animal that won’t put her in a hearse, watches video essays, going on adventures in the wrong shoes, and continues to dabble in writing and yoga. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/miao-hao monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/23f1a65a-29eb-436f-b518-511601b88db1/Miao+Hao+Bio+Photo+-+Miao+Hao.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Miao Hao - Pronouns: she/her Email: miaohao@usc.edu Advisor: Kiki Benzon Miao Hao is an M.A. student in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at USC. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Film Directing. Her work bridges research and creative practice, with broad interests in experimental cinema, gender politics, and documentary filmmaking about memory and belonging. She is currently developing a documentary that explores the transformation and disappearance of Chinese-language movie theaters in Los Angeles. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/adia-weaver monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/64f4ad96-652c-4aa2-971a-60e9d89d9303/Adia+Weaver+Headshot+2020+-+Adia+Weaver.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Adia Weaver - Pronouns: she/her Email: agweaver@usc.edu Advisor: Tara McPherson Adia Weaver is a first-year CAMS MA. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociocultural Anthropology and a certificate in Visual Arts. While at Princeton, she was awarded the Alex Adam ‘07 Award, Princeton Mellon Initiative for Summer Digital Research Grant and the Bogle Fellowship for Civic Service. Prior to joining USC’s CAMS department, she was an Apprentice at Disney General Entertainment, where she completed rotations with network executives at National Geographic Unscripted Production and Development, ABC Entertainment Casting, and 20th Century Fox Television Music. Her global research experiences and residencies at institutions such as Oxford University, Kyoto University, the British Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Accademia dell’Arte have shaped her research interests, which include the body, technology, and performance, digital identity, and hybrid and non-linear storytelling. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/james-delisio monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/f72255e2-9f24-42b9-abd5-58eef2a944d9/IMG_8482+-+James+Delisio.jpg ZdC MA Bios - James DeLisio - Pronouns: he/him Email: jdelisio@usc.edu Advisor: Thomas Pringle James DeLisio is an MA student in the Cinema & Media Studies division at the University of Southern California. He was born and raised in Monrovia, California, and received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2025. His research interests pertain to the intersections of documentary studies, and environmental media. In particular, he is passionate about interrogating alternative representations of landscape, animal life, and nuclear energy in film & media. He also keeps up a personal filmmaking practice which explores the histories and ecologies of Southern California, his latest work being an experimental observation of the California Spiny Lobster. Outside of school, he enjoys working in live sports broadcast production, cooking, and birdwatching. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/pau-brunetfuertes monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/a499b720-c9f3-4181-b6a8-19eebbc530cb/Pau+Profile+2023+-+Pau+Brunet+Fuertes.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Pau Brunet Fuertes - Pronouns: he/they Email: brunetfu@usc.edu Advisor: J.D. Connor Pau Brunet Fuertes is a film analyst and scholar who has worked in the field since 2006, when they launched Boxoffice.es. Over the years, they have contributed to various media outlets and have produced films recognized at SXSW, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the San Sebastian Film Festival, such as “10,000 Km” (2014), “Anchor & Hope” (2016), and “The Chambermaid” (2019) as well as short films, “Farrucas” (2021) and documentaries, “Hermanas” (2022). Thanks to their extensive knowledge and experience in distribution and sales, Pau advises several Hispanic production companies and is part of the Spanish National Film Board Committee. In 2025, after graduating with an Obama Foundation scholarship, Pau began postgraduate studies in Film and Industry Studies at USC. Their research focuses on emerging market models, media policies, and the impact of public funding on the film industries in Europe and LATAM. Pau is also a member of the Spanish Film Academy and has been nominated for their awards. In 2025, they received the Sant Jordi Award from Spain’s National Corporation of Radio and Television for their contribution to the Spanish film industry through their work depicting the film and media industry. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/donny-assefa monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/e10b4762-d041-4506-9b12-05048b27c2b9/Candidate+Picture+-+Donny+Assefa.jpg ZdC MA Bios - Donny Assefa - Pronouns: he/him Email: dassefa@usc.edu Advisor: Lan Duong Donny Assefa is a first-year Master’s student in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He recently earned his bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Media Studies and Public Relations from USC. Donny’s research interests include international cinema, race/nationalism studies, transnational feminism, and Black diasporic studies. Donny is interested in examining the consolidation after 9/11 in tandem with the racialized, sexual, and gendered securitization logic of the War on Terror and US nationalism. During his previous e-board position in the USC East African Student Association, Donny organized screenings and discussions of Ethiopian media as a means to explore history and culture through diasporic dialogue. Outside of academia, he enjoys designing graphics, photography, and R&B music. https://www.zdcusc.org/bios/category/2025-27 monthly 0.5 https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios daily 0.75 2026-10-05 https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/mia-parnall monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/413d0519-b8ea-4687-a8c8-234be8d66e62/Mia+Parnell_academic+pp.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Mia Parnall Pronouns: she/her Advisor: Akira Lippit Mia Parnall (b. Cornwall, UK) is a scholar of experimental film and artistic practice in Japan, focused on the 1970s-2000s. She is interested in how metaphors of environment such as climate, attunement, and enclosure inform the aesthetic strategies of media art and performance after the 1960s, as well as in the transpacific genealogies of New Age discourses around nature and the body. Mia is also active in film programming: from 2023-2026 she served as curator of online programs for the scholarly collective and streaming platform Collaborative Cataloging Japan, and she has contributed programs and translations to screenings at the Barbican, e-flux Screening Room, and the ICA. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/shiyi-zhao monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/c4579e9a-4e19-448f-b0fd-f8ee4fcbe87e/Shiyi+bio.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Shiyi Zhao Pronouns: she/they Advisor: Lan Duong Shiyi Zhao is a PhD student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She holds an M.A. in CaMS from USC and a B.Communication. in Film from HKBU. Her work examines materiality and environment across East and Southeast archipelagic Asias, focusing on extractive urbanization and the infrastructures of logistics and diaspora. She studies migration, displacement, and ecological violence across (de)colonial terrains through film, visual culture, and media history. Through her research, Shiyi aims to offer both critical insight and affective resonance—speaking to the complexities of diasporic life while creating space for opacity, uncertainty, and relationality. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/alexander-pablo-muller monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/21f281f9-7887-414d-9283-f6bae2fdbefd/Alex+Muller+%28higher+resolution%29.jpeg ZdC PhD Bios - Alexander Pablo Muller Pronouns: he/him Advisor: Aniko Imre Alexander Pablo Muller is a Cinema and Media Studies Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California. His research explores how visual culture mediates, destabilizes, and reimagines national identity formations. His scholarly interests cohere around three interrelated areas: exilic and diasporic media practices, the counter politics of film form, and the aesthetics and erotics of fascism. He holds a research M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/mack-brumbaugh monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/f8694f60-190f-4f28-a95b-5446f3e096d5/Mack+Brumbaugh+Profile+Photo.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Mack Brumbaugh Pronouns: he/him Advisor: Jennifer Hessler Mack Brumbaugh is interested in how digital technologies can disrupt the film and television industry in visible and invisible ways. His research focuses on streaming film and television platforms, exploring how AI-powered algorithms deconstruct and reconstruct traditional industry taxonomies, transforming how everyday users and executives alike understand film, television, and the industry broadly. Leveraging queer and feminist frameworks, Mack is interested in how streaming platform algorithms force expansive media texts into classifiable and normative categories and who benefits from these categorizations. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/riley-gold monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/32ecc866-1dce-4637-b740-95a999112bb7/IMG_2238+%281%29+%281%29.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Riley Gold - Pronouns: he/him Email: riley.gold@usc.edu Advisor: Thomas Pringle Riley Gold is a Ph.D. student in Cinema and Media Studies. He is additionally enrolled in the Visual Studies and Science and Technology Studies graduate certificate programs. His research concerns how automation became a thinkable solution to environmental crises in America. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/raymondk-ra monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/1f3f14b0-4396-43b7-8496-78bfcfbf781e/raymond-kyooyung-ra-ray-kyooyung-ra-edited-1.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Raymond Kyooyung Ra - Pronouns: he/him Email: kyooyung@usc.edu Advisor: Kara Keeling, Tara McPherson Raymond Kyooyung Ra is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate at the Division of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California. His research interests are centered on media studies, performance studies, feminist and queer theory, Korean cultural studies, and global Blackness studies. Ray’s doctoral dissertation studies the dance performance genre ‘waacking’ that originated from the 1970s Los Angeles underground gay disco scene and made transpacific crossings to South Korea in the context of post-WWII geopolitics and media infrastructures. Ray’s work has been published in Communication, Culture & Critique; International Journal of Korean History; and Performance Art Museum. Since 2012, Ray has accumulated experience as a media professional in the South Korean television and digital media industry, and this includes his time with companies such as the Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) and The Korea Herald. He is also a dance and performance practitioner, having hosted international workshops in Asia and Europe as well as worked with local institutions and communities based in Los Angeles, such as CultureHub, One Institute, and Whacking Los Angeles. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/josephharris-johnson monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/21cd4020-0643-4c71-8825-da2dbb65a329/IMG_2789+-+Jae+Johnson.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Joseph (Jae) Harris Johnson - Pronouns: he/they Email: jhjohnso@usc.edu Advisor: Kara Keeling I explore the atmospheric and architectural connections between filmmaking and policymaking across post-2005 France in relation to the phenomenon of colorblind racism. My research interests include POC filmmaking, affective atmospheres, architectural design, cultural production, and critical discourse studies. Additionally, I hypothesize that both filmmaking and policymaking are both artistic processes that can author socially significant fictions. Beyond my research, I aim to pursue a career outside of academia in either the museum sphere or film festival world. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/eneos-carka monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/69de3a6c-3325-431e-a83c-7b2a999a75e6/Eneos+C%CC%A7arka+Profile+Picture.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Eneos Çarka - Pronouns: he/him Email: carka@usc.edu Advisor: Michael Renov Eneos Çarka is a filmmaker, media artist, and researcher. His films have screened at festivals and venues including IDFA, Hot Docs, Tallinn Black Nights, Festival dei Popoli and Los Angeles Filmforum. He received the FIPRESCI Award in 2023 for his film "The Silence of The Banana Trees" and served as a Jury Member in the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary in 2022. His first feature documentary "Another Day" debuted at IDFA Luminous section in 2023 where it received a Best First Feature Nomination as well as the Best Balkan Dox at DokuFest. He is currently conducting artistic research on elemental cinema at the University of Southern California. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/marissa-cdebaca monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/004b4981-55b0-4f0e-a9b8-20e1c120b1af/dsc06085-1-marissa-c-de-baca-edited-1.jpeg ZdC PhD Bios - Marissa C de Baca - Pronouns: they/them or any pronouns Email: mcdebaca@usc.edu Advisor: Kara Keeling Marissa C de Baca is a 4th Year PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. They received an MA in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University and a BFA magna cum laude from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Their dissertation project examines the intersection of Asian racialization and computation through queer and women of color feminist cultural productions. Their research interests include Queer of Color Critique, Environmental Media, Transpacific Studies, Asian American Studies, and Digital Aesthetics. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/max-berwald monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/be77e8e6-efca-40e6-a101-d3697cfc98a1/mb-author-photo-2-maximilian-berwald-edited.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Max Berwald - Pronouns: he/they Email: mberwald@usc.edu Advisor: Nitin Govil Max Berwald is a PhD student in cinema and media studies at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on media and the US-China relationship, with a special interest in security discourses and militarism. He has lived, worked and studied in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/sebastian-wurzrainer monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/8812ad28-97bb-4b82-bad4-bfbfa0e71b7e/Headshot+-+Sebastian+Wurzrainer.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Sebastian Wurzrainer - Pronouns: he/him Email: wurzrain@usc.edu Advisor: Priya Jaikumar Sebastian Wurzrainer is a settler scholar and PhD candidate in cinema and media studies at The University of Southern California. He has received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in cinema and media studies from Dartmouth College and USC respectively. His research considers the fraught ways in which Hollywood films translate and refract the incommensurability between the sovereignty of the settler state and the sovereignty of Indigenous nations. He is particularly interested in how Indigenous actors, filmmakers, and spectators use recent works of Hollywood speculative fiction to assert and enact varied forms of Indigenous sovereignty. Sebastian is currently working on his dissertation, tentatively titled “Mediating Sovereignty: Hollywood Speculative Fiction and Narratives of Indigenous Survivance.” He has published reviews and articles in the Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Spectator. He has also written chapters for the forthcoming anthologies Skoden, Stoodis! Critical and Creative Perspectives on Reservation Dogs and Handbook on the Global Civic Imagination. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/tania-sarfraz monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/5d05b62c-854e-447c-8fd9-257f3a23e69f/zdc-color-logo-with-white-box.jpg.png ZdC PhD Bios - Tania Sarfraz - Pronouns: she/her Email: sarfraz@usc.edu Advisor: Anikó Imre Tania Sarfraz is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at USC. Working across deconstruction, film and media aesthetics, and theories of unworlding, her research asks how aesthetic discourse produces us as speaking subjects. Her project pursues this question across a set of lost, poorly preserved, and degraded instances of “world cinema” as well as postwar American experimentations in the concept of a “site.” Her work has appeared in the media aesthetics special issue of “communication + 1.” https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/alexandra-petrus monthly 0.5 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/0cb07e22-41c4-4071-9a28-2b19709fc004/1d164f65-ed02-4149-9ae9-b1f6ca32d241-alexandra-petrus-edited.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Alexandra Petrus - Pronouns: she/her Email: petrus@usc.edu Advisor: Anikó Imre As a scholar-practitioner, Alexandra Petrus' work moves across issues of labor and property through filmmaking, game design, and research. In 2020 she co-founded Achtung Autobahn Studios, a Germany-based studio specializing in social-realist games, and continues to work with experimental analog and digital media forms alongside her scholarship. Her developing dissertation project explores the ways the nascent "cozy game" genre operates within the contradictions posed by utopian praxis across select sites of history, offering not just an escape from our current state of environmental and political-economic crisis but also a means of tracing how we arrived at them. https://www.zdcusc.org/phd-bios/julia-camus monthly 0.5 2026-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d2dd941b3fd31961b0c474/5ddf8336-0fb4-45a4-b106-b862efacbcde/img0018-3-julia-camus-edited.jpg ZdC PhD Bios - Julia Rose Camus - Pronouns: she/her Email: jcamus@usc.edu Advisor: Kara Keeling Julia Rose Camus is a PhD student in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She holds a BA in Cinema and Media Studies and Anthropology from the University of Chicago, an MA in Cinema and Media Studies from USC. Her dissertation research considers the ethics, erotics, and poetics of AI-generated art. 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With core methodologies rooted in ethnography, discourse analysis, and STS, her work bridges gaps between internet/platform studies, celebrity studies, and audience/fan studies. Within the context of digital networks, Celeste investigates information flows, and the ways in which users negotiate power/intimacy and interact with technological interfaces. She has previously presented at conferences for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the Association of Internet Researchers, and her work has been published or is forthcoming in Transformative Works and Cultures, The International Journal of Communication, and The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Alongside her scholarly work, Celeste freelances in industry spaces, running the gamut from marketing/PR to community management and trust and safety. 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