Emily Pothast is an interdisciplinary artist and historian who examines how material practices mediate cultural memory. She holds an MFA with an emphasis in Printmaking from the University of Washington and a PhD in Art and Religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Emily’s dissertation Mediating Revelation: Apocalypse as Divine Media Theory (2026) traces the reception history of ancient apocalyptic literature through transitional moments where new media paradigms made possible new configurations of community. Her research interests include apocalypticism, theories of religion and media, 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 Hair and Space Museum, Midday Veil, and the Soft Landing Ensemble. Since 2017 she has been 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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