Critical Studies Alumni Spotlight

Eileen Isagon Skyers

Eileen Isagon Skyers has remained active in the world of art and culture since graduating from the Critical Studies program. She has secured roles producing online exhibitions at non-profit and contemporary arts institutions including David Zwirner, Rhizome, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She was the cofounder and CCO of the cultural fund Gemma and has exhibited her own work in the US, UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Skyers has also given a TED Talk on AI art.

Madeline Lane-McKinley

Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, teacher, and editor. She is the author of Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times (Common Notions, 2022) and Dear Z, (Commune Editions, 2019), as well as the coauthor of Fag/Hag (Rosa Press, 2024). She has a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is an editor for Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, Entropy Magazine, Lux Magazine, Post-45 Contemporaries, and Cultural Politics, and she is a contributor to The Museum of Capitalism.