Graduate Affiliates

International student from Bogotá, Colombia. MBA Candidate at McCombs School of Business, class of 2024. Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. Musician and music production enthusiast. Played at two of the biggest music festivals in Colombia, Festival Estereo Picnic and Rock al Parque, and won Shock’s award for best new rock artist in 2012.Attended to music business and music production courses at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá.Worked in the airline industry for 7 years in Strategy and Operations, now looking to pivot to Media/Tech.

Casey Walker is a Media Studies PhD student in the Department of the Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. Walker primarily focuses on industry, technology, and labor scholarship regarding the classical Hollywood studio system.His M.A. thesis explored Karl Freund’s Hollywood career, detailing his collaborative (and sometimes combative) authorship, stylistic trends, and technological contributions.

Alex is a PhD student in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. Working within U.S. film and television histories, Alex is interested in fringe media objects and the limits of media studies. These objects range from horror to the fashion/design industries, and questions about the politics of excess, regulation, and material/visual cultures are of particular interest. He received his MA in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication from the University of Texas at Dallas and his BA in Art History from the University of Southern California. He is published in FLOW, The Velvet Light Trap, and Media Industries Journal.

Hyun-jung Stephany Noh is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Radio-Television-Film at Moody College of Communication, the University of Texas at Austin. Her interdisciplinary research spans global media, media industries, and public diplomacy with a special focus on the Korean Wave or hallyu. Her interest in media studies originates from 10 years of work experience in Korean television networks as a programming producer, ratings analyst, acquisition specialist, and production budget manager. She is currently writing her dissertation “Streaming K-drama” that investigates the cultural implications of the transnational phenomenon by researching the context of television programs and the shifts of industry practices formed in the streaming environment.

Brad Limov (MA, Nagoya University) is a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently a graduate research assistant with the Center for Media Engagement's Solidarity Journalism Initiative. His research examines the media industries and social movements at the level of digital production. He is particularly interested in the role of events, community, and identity in shaping this production and its political engagements.

Rusty Hatchell is a doctoral candidate in media studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.A. in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.A. in English from Georgia Gwinnett College. His current research focuses on contemporary superhero television universes, particularly on the efforts to cultivate narrative continuity as well as the industrial production logics that help shape superhero television into its own distinct genre. His scholarly work has appeared in Middle West Review, the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, In Media Res, and the edited collection After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation, “Mapping the Multiverse: Narrative Continuity and Industrial Logics in the Shared Television Universes of DC’s Superheroes, 1992-2022,” which uses a longitudinal study of DC Comics’ expansion into television from 1992 to 2022 to examine how shared universes are emerging as a guiding principle of the media industries, influencing television production and distribution strategies.

Laura C. Brown is a Media Studies PhD candidate in the Department of Radio-Television-Film. Her research interests include American broadcast media history, audiences, taste cultures, critical industry studies, music on television, and media failures. She is currently a co-lead editor of The Velvet Light Trap journal, and she holds a position on the graduate student council of the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force. Laura received a bachelor’s degree in History and a master’s degree in Film and Television Studies, both from Boston University.