julia sharpe

julia sharpe is a phd candidate in film and visual studies at harvard university. she is an interdisciplinary artist who writes creative non-fiction and makes moving images and installations. her visual research and theoretical interventions explore the interplay between affect and aesthetics as it plays out in both personal and collective experiences of the united states’ varied regional ecologies, with particular attention to suburban landscapes and the american south.

her dissertation project seven modes of opacity explores the historical, political, and affective dimensions of formal strategies used to deconstruct narrative storytelling practices in non-fiction, moving image practices in the us after 2001. drawing upon the notion that practice is theory and theory is practice, her work bridges a studio practice with feminist phenomenology, affect theory, new materialism, sonic materialism, film theory and history, and the history of photography.

julia holds an mfa from the school of the art institute of chicago (2018) and a ba from the university of virginia (2012). she lives in brooklyn, ny.

@julia_violet_sharpe & juliavioletsharpe@gmail.com