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Dr. Joshua Kierstead
Film Studies PhD, University of Iowa
Joshua Kierstead earned his Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa in 2017. Before Iowa, he attended the University of Chicago and Bowdoin College.

“It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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