Editorial Board
Managing Editors
Charlie Brownlee
Class of 2025
Charlie is double majoring in Communications and English & Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film Studies. He is particularly interested in film projection and preservation along with slow cinema and experimental film. Charlie also works at the Chelsea Theater, a nonprofit arthouse movie theater, and is a radio DJ at WXYC 89.3 FM Chapel Hill. In his free time, he enjoys live music and long movies.
Rebecca Kelley
Class of 2024
Rebecca is majoring in English and Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film Studies. She plays the cello and is minoring in Music. She also loves to scuba dive and is minoring in Marine Sciences. In film studies, Rebecca is interested in genre hybridization and film adaptations of literature.
Melissa Luna
Class of 2025
Melissa is double majoring in English with a concentration in Film Studies and in Communications with a concentration in Media Production. She’s also minoring in Media & Journalism, and she would say that when regarding film her main interests lie in documentary filmmaking and the history of Mexican cinema, but truly she thinks all movies are pretty neat. Melissa is also an executive member of the abolitionist org CJAA and a barista at Epilogue on Franklin Street. If she’s not in her room or making your coffee, you can typically catch her trying to read in the arboretum or on a long walk in Battle Park.
Campbell Mah
Class of 2025
Campbell is double majoring in Biology and English and Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film Studies. His interests primarily reside within the realms of Korean cinema, postmodernist Japanese literature, and 90s alternative rock. He is also the President of Chapel Hill Film Society, an organization dedicated to screening classic, foreign, and independent films for students on campus.
Founding Student Editors
Veronica Chandler
Class of 2021
Veronica majored in English and Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film Studies, and minoring in Anthropology. She was interested in all forms of film and television in any genre, whether it be live action, stop motion, or animation. As an editor for Aspect, Veronica was most interested in collaborating with other writers passionate about film and television. Veronica has been published in The Pit Journal, and she worked on an honors thesis that explored the ways in which Hollywood’s age-old practices impact minority creators. She is committed to helping writers enhance and refine their pieces, and highlight their talent. Since graduating from UNC, Veronica has aspired to become a writer and producer.
Tyler Kwok
Class of 2021
Tyler double majored in Global Studies and the Film Studies concentration in English and Comparative Literature with a minor in Chinese. He worked with the Carolina Film Association as a producer, writer, and sat on the Executive Producer’s Board. Tyler wrote an honors thesis that explored film’s relationship to nationhood and focused on the ways in which three Chinese auteurs negotiate a Chinese identity in their work. Upon graduating, he began pursuing work that utilizes entertainment as a tool for cultural exchange.
Josh Martin
Class of 2021
Josh is a professional film critic and was an English and Comparative Literature major with a concentration in Film Studies. Communication Studies was his second major. Josh has written reviews and film-related editorials for Film Inquiry, Inside the Film Room, and Martin on Movies. As a film critic, he has covered Chapel Hill’s annual Film Fest 919 for two years. Since 2018, Josh has been a member of the North Carolina Film Critics Association, an organization of professional critics located in North Carolina. Josh’s research focused on contemporary international cinema, particularly the intersection of spectatorship, time-based theories of film, and concepts of authorship and genre. His honors thesis addressed “slow cinema,” an international mode in which the spectator’s experience of duration is prioritized through an engagement with radical slowness. Josh has since started to pursue his scholarly interests in graduate school.
Macy Meyer
Class of 2021
Macy majored in English and Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film Studies. She was also a reporting major in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, with an interest in sports writing. Macy began as an editor for the PIT Journal and was a contributing writer to both local and national magazines, including WAKE Living and Variance magazine. Macy also wrote for The Daily Tar Heel since her sophomore year and became Senior Writer on the Sports Desk. Macy’s film research focused on experimental and avant-garde cinema with a particular interest in non-Western and female-authored films. She wrote an honors thesis that critically examined surrealist documentaries, particularly exploring the way surrealism works in anthropological and foreign documentaries.
Halynna Snyder
Class of 2021
Halynna double majored in Interactive Multimedia Journalism (in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media) and English and Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film Studies. Halynna served as a digital communications assistant in the Department of English and Comparative Literature as well as a design coordinator at the Carolina Union. Halynna also worked as a front-end developer at the UNC Reese Innovation Lab, focused on creating and sharing novel and immersive storytelling experiences through technology. In additional to their editorial work, Halynna developed and designed the Aspect website.
Graduate Student Editor and Website Manager
Maggie Miller
Maggie is a first-year Ph.D. student in English literature and a graduate assistant in the Department of Film Studies this year. Her focus lies in prosody and the poetic imagination of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly in expressions of theological and philosophical ideas and aesthetics in the poetry of Milton, Donne, Spenser, Vaughan, Herbert, and others.