Background
Katie Kirkland is a scholar of contemporary experimental documentary, with particular interests in feminist, transnational and performative practices. Her current book project examines reenactment as a tool of counter-historical imagination amidst ongoing conditions of state violence. She has additionally explored such themes in a concurrent research project about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s unfinished feature film, White Dust From Mongolia, which examines both Cha’s transmedial theorization of cinema and the methodological challenges and possibilities of working with unfinished and fragmentary works.
Her writing appears or is forthcoming in publications including Film Undone: Elements of a Latent Cinema (Archive Books 2024), Feminist Media Histories, Another Gaze, The New York Review of Books and Film Comment.
Education
- PhD, MA, Film Studies and Comparative Literature, Yale University
- BA, Cinema and Media Studies and English, University of Chicago
Research Interests
- Documentary and Experimental Nonfiction
- Reenactment, Performance and Expanded Cinematic Practices
- Feminist Film and Media Histories
- Archives, Counter Archives and Speculative Methodologies
Teaching Interests
- Documentary and Experimental Nonfiction
- History and Theory of Cinema
- Archives, Counter Archives, and Speculative Methodologies