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.
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Faculty Members in Cinema and Media Studies
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Brown, William | film-philosophy, digital media, posthumanism, critical race theory |
| Coulthard, Lisa | film theory and violence; film sound and violence, contemporary American and European cinemas, continental philosophy and Lacanian theory |
| Frackman, Kyle | Cinema studies; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Literature and literary studies; Cultural studies; queer studies; German studies; media studies; history of sexuality; sexuality; sexuality studies; East Germany; film; Gender Studies; history of science; literature; Media; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Scandinavia |
| Iurascu, Ilinca | Comparative literatures; Theories of cultural studies; Media, visual and digital culture; German literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; media theory; Media history; critical theory; film studies |
| 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 | Asian history; Cinema studies; Film, television and digital media; Japanese cinema; Gendered image production, gendered reception, and women in film industries; Videographic criticism |
| Liu, Siyuan | twentieth century Chinese theatre and Asian Canadian theatre |
| Malakaj, Ervin | Literature and literary studies; German studies; German Film Studies; German Media Studies; German Media History; Queer Theory and Queer Studies; Feminist and Queer Film Historiography; Critical Pedagogy |
| Marshall, Hallie | Performing arts; Ancient Greek Theatre; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Classics; Contemporary British Theatre; Cultural Industries; History of the Book; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Poetry; Reception Studies; Religion, Culture and Space; Theatre; Tony Harrison |
| Marshall, Toph | Cinema studies; Classical Greek and Ancient Rome history; Classical archaeology; Classical linguistics; Film, television and digital media; Religion and religious studies; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Performance and Theatrical Productions |
| 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 |
| 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 | Chinese literatures; Asian history; Chinese literature; Cinema; Print culture; translation; Humor |
| Santos, Alessandra | Cinema studies; Film, television and digital media; Latin American history; Latin American literatures; Spanish language; Artistic and Literary Analysis Models; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Brazilian Literature and Culture; Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies; Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures |
| Scholte, Tom | Theatre, film, and television |
| Smith, Tai | History of art and architecture; Art theory and analysis; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles |
| 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 |
