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Tuesday - Thursday,  2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Get to know Chris

After studying Psychology and Philosophy as an undergraduate, and then working in the mental health industry as a mentor and teacher for several years, Chris earned his MFA at Boston University, writing his thesis on the work of the American experimental animator Don Hertzfeldt. As a PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, Chris has conducted research on doppelgängers, digitality, documentary studies, Left Bank cinema, posthumanism, genre theory, epistolary aesthetics, collectivist ontology, and cinematic depictions of the afterlife. 

Chris’ written work has been published by BCC Press, Utah Historical Quarterly, ProQuest, and Ampersand: An American Studies Journal; he has presented research at the Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium and UIowa’s Rhetoric Colloquium; he has co-hosted the post-religious podcast On the Other Side (in collaboration with the Open Stories Foundation); and he has appeared on the exploratory humanist podcast The Kindness Rebellion. Chris has also produced and co-hosted a series of educational videos and a variety of montages and video essays. Chris is currently working on a dissertation about digital resurrection/reanimation in cinema and other media.