Researchers

Adam Rosadiuk is a PhD candidate in the Film and Moving Image Studies programme at Concordia University.  His areas of interest include environmental aesthetics, film philosophy, theories of cinematic figuration, narrative film, and film aesthetics.  He completed his MA in Film Studies at Concordia University in 2006.  He is the former editor-in-chief of Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies

Catherine Russell is Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and Program Director of the PhD in Humanities at Concordia University. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from New York University (1990). Her publications include work on avant-garde cinema, anthropological cinema, japanese cinema and early cinema. A specialist of film theory, her recent work focuses on archive, collection and the emergence of cinephilia in filmic culture.

Charles Acland is Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies. He received a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois. Charles Acland specializes on film institutions.

Dana Polan (B.A., Cornell; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford; Doctorat d’État, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle) is Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is one of the most prominent specialist in film studies in the United States. He is the author of numerous books and has recently published the first study on The Beginnings of the American Study of Film (University of California Press, 2007).

François Albera is Professor, section d'histoire et d'esthétique du cinéma et l'Université de Lausanne. He is one of the most prominent specialist on the theory and history of cinema in Europe. He has published numerous works and essays on the avant-garde, soviet cinema and the history of French cinema.

François Albera's publications (in French only)

 

Haidee Wasson’s research interests include modernity/modernism, film exhibition and reception, cultural institutions, emergent media, film and media theory, feminism, and film and media historiography. Her published work concentrates on cinema, but explores the broader relations among media forms and practices (cinema and newspapers, books, radio, film, television, internet).

Julianne Pidduck is professor in the Communication Department at the Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality (notably queer theory) in in the context of moving image studies. Her research focuses on the power of cinema as a cultural form, notably the articulation of difference in genre and narrative and cinematic theories of space and time. She has written extensively about Anglo-American and French costume film, and about lesbian, gay and queer representation in popular and experimental film and video.

Marc Furstenau received a PhD in Communications from McGill University, and a BA and an MA in Comparative Literature and Film Studies from the University of Alberta. His main areas of interest are: film theory and film history; new digital media; documentary cinema; cultural and media studies; histories and theories of media and communications technologies; theories of representation and semiotics; philosophy and film.

Martin Lefebvre is University Research Chair in Film Studies and Director of the Advanced Research Team on the History and Epistemology of Moving Image Studies (ARTHEMIS, http://www.arthemis-cinema.ca/). He is also Director of the Doctoral Program in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University.

Michael Zryd is Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the Department of Film, York University. He served as Chair of the board of directors of the Images Festival in 2004-05 and as president of the Film Studies Association of Canada in 2005-06. He has curated or co-curated Hollis Frampton Magellan retrospectives in Toronto,  New York, Karlsruhe, and London. He is currently Archivist of SCMS and co-chair of the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group.

Dr. Rosanna Maule is associate professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema, Concordia University, Montréal. She joined Concordia University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. She holds a PhD (2000) in Communications, with concentration in Film Studies, from the University of Iowa, USA.