Iris Ghatak is a PhD student in media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She earned two MastersÌýdegrees in the Western and Eastern Classics respectively at St John’s College in Santa Fe, where she also wrote herÌýmastersÌýessay on the mutual concerns among Sir Thomas Browne and Sigmund Freud. Her primary interests involve white supremacy, social media, and the physical fallout between the two. Through her research, she attempts to understand virtual and physical space, identity, and violence through an interdisciplinary and non-dualistic lens. Iris is also interested in genealogies of mourning and burial. She does not like sparkling water.