Allison Ross

Assistant Professor of English

English

I'm Teaching

Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Cinema Genres: Documentary

Office Hours

Mondays and Wednesday, 2:15-3:15pm (in person or on Teams)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:15-12:15pm (in person or on Teams)
And by appointment

Biography

Allison Ross teaches film and new media and researches these subjects through the lenses of documentary and narrative studies, queer theory and disability studies. Her research takes a theory-practice approach to examining history, memory, and experiential truth in the age of recombinant logic and artificial intelligence. Published in Docalogue (2018), Media Fields (2019), and Spectator (2019), her writing will appear in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Disability and Horror. Her game, Fall (2021), co-created with James Kim, screened at USC’s Games Expo (2021), where she received a Ph.D. in 2022.

Research Interests

    Documentary, new media, film studies, narrative studies, video game studies, disability studies, queer theory and gender studies