Emily Ann Pothast is an interdisciplinary artist and historian who studies relationships between material practices and cultural memory. She holds a PhD in Art and Religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an MFA with an emphasis in Printmaking from the University of Washington.
Emily’s dissertation Mediating Revelation: Apocalypse as Divine Media Theory (2026) traces the reception history of ancient apocalyptic literature through its imbrication with the emerging media cultures of the early handpress (c. 1450s – 1550s), silent film, (c. 1890s -1930s) and digital media (late 20th century – present). Her research interests include apocalypticism, media theory, print culture, film and television studies, music and sound studies, ritual and ceremony.
As a musician and improviser, Emily is a cofounder of the groups Midday Veil, Hair and Space Museum, and the Soft Landing Ensemble. She is a regular contributor to the London-based experimental music magazine The Wire. Her writing has also appeared in Art in America, Hyperallergic, Jacobin, and the edited volume Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends (Routledge, 2022).
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