International Visiting Scholars
Recent International Visiting Scholars
Johannes Binotto
Johannes Binotto, researcher and senior lecturer in cultural and media studies at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and at the English Department of the University of Zurich, joined UMass during the Fall 2022. He is a regular contributor to the film magazine Filmbulletin, curator, experimental filmmaker and video essayist. Johannes Binotto obtained his PhD with a book on the Freudian uncanny and its spatial representation in art, literature and cinema which has been awarded 2011 with the annual prize of the University of Zurich and in 2018 he received the Karsten-Witte-Preis for best German film studies paper. He has published an edited volume on Film and Architecture in the legendary book series “Bauwelt Fundamente”. In the “Best Video Essays of 2021” poll, hosted by Sight and Sound Magazine and the British Film Institute his video essay series “Practices of Viewing” received the most nominations. He is currently working on a large study on Classical Hollywood film technology and its relations to the psychoanalytical unconscious. And since 2021 he is leading the research project “VideoEssay. Futures of Audiovisual Research and Teaching” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) with Dr. Chloé Galibert-Laîné, M.A. Jialu Zhu and M.A. Oswald Iten as research team: videoessayresearch.org
Fall 2022 -Faculty sponsor: Barbara Zecchi
Ariadna Lorenzo Sunyer, doctoral student (joint PhD) -from the University of Girona (Dept. of History and History of Art) in Catalonia, and University of Lausanne in Switzerland (History and Film Aesthetics). She specializes in contemporary art and photography, sociology of art, immersion spaces, and early cinema. She has been a member of the Universitat de Girona research project on pre-cinema (the magic lantern). She collaborated in the organization of exhibitions at the Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne) and the Museu del Cinema (Girona).
September 2018-November 2018 Faculty sponsor: Barbara Zecchi
Francisco Zamora, doctoral student in Film Studies (ESTCA), Paris 8 University. Master degree in Film Direction, Paris 8 University, Saint Denis (2010). Director 2013- Last tribes of cinema, documentary, 52 minutes. Produced by Points Communs for Planète + (TV channel). 2009- Séphora Colorful, commercials, 3x3 minutes. Produced by PROJETS SPECIAUX. Assistant director 2013- Che Guevara, l'invention d'un icône, documentary, 52 minutes. Produced by TS for Arte (TV channel). 2013- La Chasse à l'amour, Violette Leduc, documentary, 52 minutes. Produced by Les Films du Poisson for Arte (TV channel). Director of Photography 2013- L'amour au bout du monde, documentary, 52 minutes. Produced by MC4 for Voyages channel.
October 2015- January 2016 Faculty sponsor: Shawn Shimpak
Silvia Guillamón Carrasco has a PhD in Audiovisual Communication (Extraordinary Award, 2014), a degree in Audiovisual Communication and Hispanic Philology and a Master's degree in Language Sciences and Human Relations. Full Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia. Currently she is the Director of the R&D+i project "Gender representations in 21st century Spanish cinema. Film imaginary and social discourses" (GV/2021/086), financed by the Conselleria d 'Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society. She has been a professor at the Universidad Internacional Valenciana and the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a guest researcher at UCSC (University of California, Santa Cruz), UMASS (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and at the Università di Bologna (Italy). Her research is focused on the intersection between semiotics, feminism, gender theory and Spanish cinema.
Fall 2013. Faculty sponsor: Barbara Zecchi