Thesis Title: "Martinka's on Saturday Night": The Society of American Magicians and the Professionalization of Magic
What Now: Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Sycamore Studios
When I started at Harvard, I knew I wanted to work in film eventually...
Thesis Title: “Make America Fit Again”: SUPERMAN #170 and the Rise of Youth Fitness Culture in Cold War America, 1953-1964
What Now: VP of Development, Tricky Knot
In so many ways, I owe the Hist & Lit department for helping me realize the vast...
Instructor: Angela Allan and Raphael Allison
Meeting time: TBD
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary theories and methods of cultural studies. Conducting rigorous analysis of landmark texts from the canon of twentieth-century critical...
Ask Me About: Pursuing Hist & Lit as an allied field for a joint concentration; Art, Film, & Visual Studies (AFVS); Latin American studies and art course recommendations; working in museums; summer humanities research; visual arts opportunities at Harvard...
Thesis Title: Tout va mal: Americanization and the Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard
What Now: Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
History & Literature was, for me, an invaluable education in teasing out unseen connections. My field—France & America—encourage me to...
Thesis Topic: Representations of leadership in Weimar film and photography
What Now: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of St Andrews, Scotland
My undergraduate studies centered around understanding narratives of violence and injustice, as conveyed...
Instructor: Angela Allan
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am
Studying popular culture reveals much about the society that creates, consumes, and critiques it. How do ideas circulate in mass media? Can popular culture create social change? Who determines...
Instructors: Nicholas Bloom and Andi Remoquillo
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:00-11:45 am
How have art, literature, and scholarship in the U.S. shaped understandings of race, gender, and power throughout the 19th and 20th centuries? How have marginalized...
Instructor: Mandy Izadi
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am
The course surveys histories of economies built by Indigenous Americans on their own lands. It also examines economies—local and global—that settler colonists built from stolen lands and natural...
Thesis Title: Shifting Visions: The Generic and Gender Legacy of the Female Outlaw in Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise
What Now: Creative Executive, Orion Pictures
What Next: Hopefully bringing stories of brave women and marginalized voices to more screens...