Cinema and Media Studies
The Cinema and Media Studies research specializes in contemporary cinemas and media culture, cult cinema, documentary studies, feminist and post-feminist media studies and sound studies among many others.
Faculty Members
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Coulthard, Lisa | film theory and violence; film sound and violence, contemporary American and European cinemas, continental philosophy and Lacanian theory |
| Frackman, Kyle | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Literary Policies; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Artistic and Literary Theories; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Social Determinants of Arts and Letters; Cultural Industries; Sexuality; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; German studies; queer studies; Gender Studies; sexuality studies; literature; film; East Germany; Scandinavia; affect; Media; history of sexuality; history of science |
| Iurascu, Ilinca | Arts and Technologies; Artistic and Literary Theories; Media and Society; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Theories and Philosophies; German literature; media theory; Cultural Studies; film studies; critical theory; visual studies; media archeology |
| Johnston, Kirsty | Dramatic literature and theatre history with particular interest in disability arts and intersections between health, disability and performance |
| Karwowska, Bozena | Sexuality, Body and Gender in Nazi Concentration Camps |
| Laird, Colleen | Japanese media and gender studies; Gendered image production, gendered reception, and women in industry; Video games, new media, streaming media, animation (anime), and comics (manga); Paratexts: distribution, exhibition, and production materials; Film theory, genre theory, transnational cinemas and star texts, and feminist and queer theory |
| Liu, Siyuan | twentieth century Chinese theatre and Asian Canadian theatre |
| Malakaj, Ervin | Artistic and Literary Analysis Models; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; German studies; German Film Studies; German Media Studies; German Media History; Queer Theory and Queer Studies; Feminist and Queer Film Historiography; Critical Pedagogy |
| Marshall, Christopher Warren | Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Performance and Theatrical Productions |
| Marshall, Hallie | Performance and Theatrical Productions; Religion, Culture and Space; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Poetry; Cultural Industries; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Theatre; Ancient Greek Theatre; Classics; Reception Studies; History of the Book; Tony Harrison; Contemporary British Theatre |
| Mathijs, Ernest | film, alternative cinema, independent cinema, European cinema, horror film, David Cronenberg, film audiences, film festivals, censorship, fantasy film, Lord of the Rings, Film studies |
| McIlroy, Brian | Other Arts; Documentary; Early Cinema; Irish Cinema; Canadian and US Cinema; Television Drama; British Cinema; cultural history; Film genres |
| Mota, Miguel | Post-1945 British literature, print culture |
| Orbaugh, Sharalyn | modern Japanese culture (literature, film, manga, animation, kamishibai); East Asian women’s issues; anti-racist pegagogy, Japanese narrative and visual culture |
| Rea, Christopher | Modern Chinese literature and cinema since the 19th century, Chinese cartoons and visual culture, Chinese print and popular culture, Chinese internet culture, humour and satire, Taiwan, Chinese culture, modern Chinese history, translation |
| Santos, Alessandra | Artistic and Literary Analysis Models; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies; Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Brazilian Literature and Culture; Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures |
| Scholte, Tom | Theatre, film, and television |
| Smith, Tai | Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; media theory; Politics of Media and Mediation; Gender; Textiles |
| Soussloff, Catherine | Art, Art History, European Art, Performance Art, Performance Studies, Art Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of art, historiography and theory of European art |
| Testa, Carlo | Italian literature, history of cinema, theory/film studies |
| Tomc, Sandra | Nineteenth-century US literature, twentieth- century US entertainment and film, gothic literature and film, screenwriting, affect and psychoanalytic theory, fear and horror, film and image theory |
| Walsh, Shannon | Media arts; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Social and cultural anthropology; South Africa; Afropessimism & Critical Race Studies; Documentary; Film Production; Indigenous studies; Environmental justice; Affect Theory |
| Zuo, Mila | Cinema & Media studies; film studies; Contemporary Asian and transnational cinemas; Film philosophy; Acting and performance studies; Star studies; Digital and new media; Critical theories of gender, sexuality, and race and ethnicity |
