UC SANTA BARBARA

PhD 2020

Naomi DeCelles

Biography

Naomi is a PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies, working in film history and feminist historiography. Naomi’s dissertation, “(Re)collecting Lotte Eisner: Curation, displacement, and memory,” offers the first in-depth study of the remarkable transnational career of journalist, archivist, and historian Lotte Eisner, framing her contributions to the discourse on cinema as an object of art historical inquiry within the context of the emergence and consolidation of academic Film Studies during the mid-twentieth century.

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Education

  • MA Cinema and Media StudiesUCLA
  • BA Comparative LiteratureStanford University