Mansi Tiwari
Selected Work
Mansi has worked across academia, journalism, and media consulting. She researched her PhD on visual culture in the post-digital age at the University of Zurich, Universiteit van Amsterdam, and Cornell University. Next to her work in media, she collaborates on projects across cultural mediation and independent publishing.
Essays and Publications
“Winning Time and Losing Frames: Clashing Formats in the Post-Archive.” On_Culture, Issue 18. Spring 2025.
“Book Review: The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media.” The Journal of Popular Culture. August 2024.
"The Object Looks Back: Paraesthetic Vision in Portrait de La Jeune Fille En Feu and Optic Nerve." A Driving Force: On the Rhetoric of Images and Power. Quaderni di Venezia Arti, vol. 7, 2023, pp. 263-277.
"Theatre Review: A Night in Provence." English Theatre in Zurich. May 16, 2019.
"Guest Review: Locarno's Leopard Ladies." Facing the Bitter Truth. August 18, 2018.
Lectures and Workshops
“The Narrative is Out of Joint: Fragmented Perspectives in A Ghost Story and How to be Both”. Intermedial Networks: The Digital Present and Beyond. Linnaeus University, 23–25 October 2024.
“Alien Encounters: Taxonomies of Non/Human Vision in Arrival and Nope”. Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2024. University of Liverpool. 4-5 July 2024.
“Character Networks and Literary Analysis”. Workshop with Dr. M. Mühlheim, K. Robe, and M. Tiwari. University of Heidelberg. 28 June 2024.
“The Object Looks Back: (Re-)Situating Vision in the Contemporary Mediascape.” A Driving Force: On the Rhetoric of Images and Power Conference, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. October 6, 2023.
“Is Climate Change Humanity's Epic Fail? Blade Runner 2049, an Epic of the Anthropocene.” Guest lecture and workshop with Pablo A Marca (Brown University). December 10, 2022.
“Critical Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, & Nation”. Workshop with Profs. E. Bronfen, B. Straumann and Morgane. A. Ghilardi. May 7, 2022.
"Rules of the Father: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Ruins of Neoliberalism in The Last of Us." Guest lecture by Prof. J. Jesse Ramírez (University of St. Gallen) - organised with Morgane A. Ghilardi. October 25, 2021.
“Critical Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, & Nation”. Workshop with Prof. E. Bronfen and Morgane A. Ghilardi. December 4, 2021.
“Seriality and Digital Media." Virtual guest lecture and workshop with Prof. Shane Denson (Stanford University) - organised with Morgane A. Ghilardi and Hannah Schoch. October 12, 2021.
“Beyond the Intermedial Gap: Ekphrasis in Fan Fiction.” Interdisciplinary Fan Fiction Workshop, University of Zurich. February 15, 2020.
“Shareland Doctoral Colloquium”. Organized by the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design (ETH Zurich). April 6, 2019.
Podcasting
One For You Podcast: Guest Host (2018-2021)
"Petite Maman & 20th Century Women." November 7, 2021.
"Zurich Film Festival 2021." October 10, 2021.
"Y: The Last Man." September 26, 2021.
"Locarno Film Festival 2021." August 18, 2021.
"Nemesis & Brief Encounter." May 30, 2021.
"Palm Springs & Russian Doll." March 21, 2021.
"Malcom and Marie & Before Sunrise." February 7, 2021.
"WolfWalkers & Waltz with Bashir." December 13, 2020.
"Holidate & Love and Friendship." November 1, 2020.
"The Zurich Film Festival 2020 Special." September 30, 2020.
"The Devil All The Time & The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." September 20, 2020.
"Insumisas & Some Like it Hot." August 9, 2020.
"The High Note & Amazing Grace." June 28, 2020.
"Hustlers & The Fall." December 1, 2019.
"The Wife & Lagaan." October 10, 2019.
"The Death of Stalin & Marie Antoinette." 26 April, 2018.