Department of English

 

Nicholas Orlando is a PhD student at the University of Florida Department of English where he examines the intersection of film and media studies, political economy, and aesthetic regimes of epistemology and technology. For his master’s thesis, he reconceptualized David Fincher’s film Zodiac (2007) as a melodrama of failure, arguing for a revisioning of failure as a productive social medium. Most recently, he has published a forthcoming paper investigating Netflix’s Stranger Things (Matt and Ross Duffer, 2016 – present) and its representation of media space as a lived space. At UF, his doctoral work focuses on the aesthetics of information and technology, representations of violence in film, and the politics of American moving-image culture. His published works can be found in the College English Association Journal, Excursions, and ImageTexT.