Biography

Nicholas P. Fernacz is a second year Ph.D. student in the Department. Nicholas’s research interests lie in Taiwan cinema and his dissertation project seeks to complicate the history of Taiwan cinema through the notion of illegibility. His writing appears in Journal of Chinese Cinemas.

Advisor: Dr. Jenny Chio

Education

  • Chinese National Taiwan University, 2024
  • Chinese Tsinghua University, 2022
  • MA University of Pennsylvania, 2022
  • BA University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
  • Journal Article

    • Fernacz, N. P. (2024). The Skywalk is Gone!: Infrastructural Sound and Everyday Invisibility in Tsai Ming-liang’s Cinema of Slowness. Journal of Chinese Cinemas.