Kyna McClenaghan

 

I'm a PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara, broadly researching occult media histories with a passion for pedagogy. After studying feminist philosophy, science and technology studies, and film for my bachelor’s degree at New York University, and subsequently feminist film theory, the occult, and folk horror for my master’s degree at Columbia University, I merged aspects of both projects and began working on histories of the occult and technology. My dissertation focuses on the intersections of California media industries and occult practices between the 1930s and 1970s. My other projects include the Alt-Right Media Literacy Series (a speaker series on how media is used by the alt-right and/or Far Right), and the Californian Ideology Project (a working group centered on the political and media industry stakes of Californian ideology). After finishing my tenure as the Managing Editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, I turned my full attention to teaching.