Department of Modern Culture and Media

Stephen Woo is a PhD candidate and Collaborative Humanities Fellow at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. He was the 2021 recipient of the Albert Spaulding Cook Prize in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown and the 2022 recipient of the Student Writing Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is currently writing a dissertation on the relation between trauma and form across global cinema and media, and his work on such concepts has been published in The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies. 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. In addition to being a scholar, he is also a curator for Magic Lantern Cinema in Providence, RI.