Moeko Fujii

Moeko Fujii joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. Her work explores the intersections of film theory, aesthetics, and race and gender studies, and focuses on 20th century American film, literature, and visual culture. Her current project, “The Asiatic Logic of Film Noir,” writes an alternative history of noir and personhood in which racial form shapes the central concerns and legacies of Hollywood noir. Her criticism on film and photography have appeared in The New Yorker, Aperture Magazine, Criterion, The New York Review of Books, The Point, and elsewhere. She writes a column on film and the environment for Orion Magazine. She holds a PhD from Princeton University, an MFA from Columbia University, and a BA from Harvard College.