NMCC enthusiastically welcomes new students to our collaborative community of new media scholars: Tara Burke, Stephen Carlson, Stephanie Mastrostefano, Christie Pang, Christopher St. Louis, Laura Strait, Chris Telomen, Kris Wright, and Erin Zysett.
Learn a bit more about our latest members below!
Tara Burke: MA Candidate, Arts Management
About Tara: Tara is especially interested in media journalism and social branding. She is currently an independent artistic contractor that specializes in art production and operation management along with education. She has worked at everything from live music events to local movement art classes. To learn more about Tara, check out her September 2015 Shelfie!
Stephen Carlson: MA Candidate, Arts Management
About Stephen: Stephen is interested in video games as a vehicle for telling cultural stories, and is exploring new media to possibly open his own digital arts studio in the future.
Stephanie Mastrostefano: PhD Candidate, English
About Stephanie: Stephanie studies film theory, and is interested in 20th and 21st-century American popular culture focusing especially on children’s animated films and representations of gender.
Christie Pang: PhD Candidate, English
About Christie: Christie is currently a student in the English department concentrating on Film Studies. Specifically, she works with the idea of monstrosity and the posthuman in Japanese animation along with the construction of gender in Japanese music videos and visual culture.
Christopher St. Louis: MA Candidate, Media Studies
About Christopher: Christopher holds a previous MA from the University of Tokyo, where his thesis focused on the role of news media in supporting and normalizing state surveillance programs following major criminal or terrorist events. He is interested in the development of the Internet as media, and would like to combine this idea with his previous research during his studies at the University of Oregon.
Laura Strait: PhD Candidate, Media Studies
About Laura: Laura is interested in Twitter, virtual communities, and digital safe spaces for female-identifying persons. She is also a feminist gamer and is interested in practicing code.
Chris Telomen: MA Candidate, Landscape Architecture
About Chris: Chris’s current research focuses on visual storytelling and rhetoric relating to issues of branding, identification, and community capability through quantitative and qualitative audience analysis.
Kris Wright: PhD Candidate, Media Studies
About Kris: Kris is interested in new media and technology in the classroom, convergence of new and old media, habitus, social fields, and “cultural capital.” Her dissertation is focused on the way that the iPad is being used in the classroom.
Erin Zysett: MA Candidate, Arts Management
About Erin: Erin is interested in creating opportunities for program collaboration and resource sharing to raise the profile of creative communities. She is especially focused on how new media and culture intersect with the arts and the challenges and opportunities digital media poses for artists and art administrators.
