Amanda Robusti

Amanda Robusti is a graduate student at San Francisco State University, where she is completing a Master of Arts in Humanities. Recently, she graduated from the Master of Arts in Cinema Studies at SFSU, and she previously obtained her BA in History of Art at Goldsmiths University of London. In her writings, art and critical theory have often come together in the investigations of violence, state power, and the resistant modes that oppose these structures. Over the years, her research interests evolved to focus on affect, bodies and sexuality, alongside experimental cinematic expressions, and especially experimental animation. An evolution underlined by her previous master’s thesis - The Limbo of Shapes: Queer Synaesthesia, a Revolutionary Act of Affect - which focuses on the animator and filmmaker Norman McLaren. At the present time, she is working toward her Culminating Experience, and she is exploring audio-visual encounters in the Humanities.