Graduate Student Directory

MS Sean Colgan seancolg@buffalo.edu
MS Alexander Solomon absolomo@buffalo.edu
MS Kayleigh Young  kyoung23@buffalo.edu
   
MAH Ebru Bodur  ebrubodu@buffalo.edu
MAH
 Ashley Gizzo  amgizzo@buffalo.edu
MAH
 Faith Graham fgraham@buffalo.edu
MAH
 Ishween Jolly ishweenj@buffalalo.edu
MAH
 Chloe Kwiatkowski chloekwi@buffalo.edu
MAH
 Danil Podsadnikov danilpod@buffalo.edu
MAH KeSean Redmond keseanre@buffalo.edu
MAH Dheyazan Saleh dheyazan@buffalo.edu
MAH Alexandra Sommer aasommer@buffalo.edu
MAH Matthew Turner turner6@buffalo.edu 
Film Analysis, Criticism of Film, Queer Cinema, Contemporary Auteurism, Experimental Cinema, and Absurdism
MAH Yuxuan Xia yuxuanxi@buffalo.edu
   
MFA
 Olurotimi Akanbi akanbi@buffalo.edu
MFA
 Blake Barit bbarit@buffalo.edu
MFA
 Lewuga Benson  lewugabe@buffalo.edu
MFA

Michael Jack Chernoff  macherno@buffalo.edu
Media Archeology, Signal Processing, Media Assemblage, Video Installation, Filmmaking, Glitch Media, Cybernetics, Speculative Design 

www.michaelchernoff.com
MFA
 Famous Clark famouscl@buffalo.edu
MFA
 Annette Daniels Taylor ad87@buffalo.edu
MFA
 Jonathan Doroski doroski@buffalo.edu
MFA

Jack Kincaid jackkinc@buffalo.edu 
Media study, spatial audio, stereo imaging, sound design, psychoacoustics, audio drama, postmodernism, expressionism, noir, psychophysics, psychology, neurology, music composition, music theory, musicology, multimodality, emulated synesthesia, and film theory. 

https://jackkincaid9.com
MFA
 James Lamb jameslam@buffalo.edu
  Ahmed (Sammy) Maham asmaham@buffalo.edu
MFA  Sean Mansfield seanmans@buffalo.edu
MFA

Joan Nobile     joannobi@buffalo.edu
video games + gaming communities, media theory + literacy, documentary film, digital art, parasocial relationships, stochastic terror, glitch aesthetics +

theory. https://joannobile.myportfolio.com/
MFA Jesse Rodkin jcrodkin@buffalo.edu
PhD Tian Jiang tjiang22@buffalo.edu
PhD

Leonardo Aranda larandab@buffalo.edu
Critical theory of technology, DIY and Critical Making, Locative media and ubiquitous computing, participatory and speculative design 

medialabmx.org/leonardo/
PhD

John Patrick Ayson johnpatr@buffalo.edu
Relational Aesthetics, Physico-Digital Interactions, Gramscian Marxism 

johnpatrickayson.com
PhD
 András Blazsek andrasbl@buffalo.edu
PhD
 Courtlin Byrd courtlin@buffalo.edu,
PhD
Taehyun Cho taehyunc@buffalo.edu
Film Narratology, Alternative Poetics, and Interactive Cinema 
PhD
 Gabriela Cordoba Vivas cordobav@buffalo.edu
PhD
 Scott Fitzgerald scottfit@buffalo.edu 
Networked devices, media infrastructure, machine learning, light, power.ennuigo.com
PhD
 Timothy Georger tpgeorge@buffalo.edu

 

PhD 

 

Hanyu Liao hanyulia@buffalo.edu
PhD 

Jason Livingston  jasonliv@buffalo.edu experimental nonfiction; energy humanities; capitalism and nature; political imagination
PHD

Susan McWhinney susanmcw@buffalo.edu
Smart Phone Cinema, Mobile Media, Frame, Data and Data Depth 

susanmcwhinney.com
PhD 
James Pollard jamespol@buffalo.edu
PhD  John Santomieri  jcs33@buffalo.edu
PhD 

Kalpana Subramanian kalpanas@buffalo.edu
Experimental film and media arts, trans-cultural aesthetics, film philosophy and embodiment 

kalpanasubramanian.com
PhD   Xiaoxu Dong xiaoxudo@buffalo.edu
PhD   Vav Vavrek crvavrek@buffalo.edu posthumanism, postcapitalism, crip technoscience, affect theory, affective computing, virtual environments, analog circuits, physical computing, machine learning,  experimental film/video/animation, creative-coding, sound art, multimedia installation, electronic waste, diy, critical making, object making

 

PhD 

 

 Ye Wang ywang253@buffalo.edu
PhD  Troy Williams  troywill@buffalo.edu
PhD  Anthony Yanick ajyanick@buffalo.edu
PhD Candidate
PhD  Ridvan Yavuzr idvanyavuz.belli.biz  
PhD Ruonan Zhang rzhang38@buffalo.edu
MArch/MFA Timothy Zeng tzeng2@buffalo.edu