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Chiara Kuo Benitez

Ph.D Student, Cinema and Media Studies

Chiara (she/her) is a PhD student and Cota-Robles fellow from Manila, Philippines. Her research centers around comparative cinemas—including Mexican, Philippine, and Chinese films and film industries—as her current project focuses on “Golden Ages” and the fraught question of national cinema. She is also more broadly interested in notions of faith and spectrality.

Education

PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA (in progress)
MA, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington
BA, Biological Sciences & Comparative Literature, Cornell University