Department of Modern Culture and Media

Stephen Woo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and a 2024-2025 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He is currently writing a dissertation project on the relation between trauma and form across global cinema and media. He was the 2022 recipient of the Student Writing Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and his work has been published or is forthcoming in The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, New Literary History, and Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. While at Brown, he was a 2022-2023 Collaborative Humanities Fellow in the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and he was the 2021 recipient of the Albert Spaulding Cook Prize from the Department of Comparative Literature. In addition to being a scholar, he is a curator for the nonprofit screening series Magic Lantern Cinema. Before coming to Brown, he received a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies and American Studies from Cornell University, where he was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.