#  Art, Film, & Visual Studies 

 





###    2023–2024  expand\_more  

 

##  Mahan Moalemi

 The 2023-24 teaching workshops in Art, Film, and Visual Studies functioned like an academic forum, a collegial hangout, and even at times like group therapy. The aim was to focus on pedagogy as a means to facilitate cohort- and community-building among peers. While many sessions hosted guest speakers and facilitators from within and beyond the department, efforts were made to hold space for face-to-face communication among the participating students with as little institutional filtering as possible. With the core values of connecting, learning, and sharing with each other, the workshops provided an opportunity for PhD students to practice and get feedback on essential skills for handling teaching assignments and applying for teaching positions.

 [View Mahan's capstone project.](/files/moalemi_bok_capstone_-_edited.pdf)



 

 

 



 

 

 

 



###    2021–2022  expand\_more  

 

##  Wesley Simon

 Although much of the content provided by current online streaming services are accompanied by closed-captioning and audio descriptions, many older films, as well as more contemporary independent films, are not easily available with these services. One particular area of need, for the anglosphere, is the high number of non-English language films that are only available with subtitles, but have no English voice-over (or overdub) that is accessible to persons with visual impairments. To address a specific case where this need arose in the Spring ‘22 semester, the AFVS70 (The Art of Film) teaching team coordinated with TDM to organize live subtitle readers during screenings, and with the Bok Center to record English voice-over tracks for online availability. The following is a list of considerations and resources that we have accrued in our pursuit of this project, that we hope future Harvard teaching staff will find helpful.

 [View Wesley's capstone project.](/files/simon_wesley_afvs.pdf)



 

 

 



 

 

 

 



###    2019–2020  expand\_more  

 

##  Jonathan Knapp

 The precise role of the Pedagogy Fellow, and the standards and expectations for the Teaching Workshop organized by this person, have always been a bit unclear in my department. Because of this, I set out to provide a clear series of recommendations for my successors to maximize the impact of the position, which I feel has a great deal to contribute to the culture of the department. I suggest a plan for maintaining institutional memory, and provide a series of recommendations regarding the department’s requirements, and for communicating these requirements to students and faculty alike.

 [View Jonathan's capstone project.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nrnEOMEBQP_-zUWHuH9fen7FGwAVGL6E/view?usp=sharing)