Stefan Jovanovic, MA

Stefan Jovanović teaches in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Fine Arts (FFAR) area of the Faculty of Fine Arts and is pursuing his PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with the support of the Peter N. Thomson Family Graduate Fellowship and the Frederick Lowy Scholars Fellowship.  His dissertation, entitled Photography and the Real, deals with questions of subjectivity and ethics in photography theory and criticism.  The thesis compares recent statements on the definition of photography (arguments as to its identity, historicity, referentiality and ideological efficiency) with concurrent claims relating to the ethics of contemporary photography practice and criticism, focusing on several exhibitions of archival, documentary and fine art photography. He has also published a number of essays on the relation of cinema to modern and contemporary art.  His essays and reviews have appeared in Parachute, Offscreen and in the catalogue for the exhibition Timelength (Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, 2004). He has also co-organized and taught at the English Seminar of the NLS-Québec (2019-present), an annual series of workshops held in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts that offers an introduction to psychoanalytic theory for undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines.

Research interests and expertise: modern and contemporary art, cinema, Lacanian psychoanalysis, history and theory of photography, informal architecture and spatial practices, continental aesthetics, environmental humanities, media art, digital gaming

Undergraduate Courses - Department of Art History

ARTH 200  Perspectives of Art History
ARTH 348  Special Topics in Art and Film: From Artists' Film to 'Cinema of Exhibition'
ARTH 355  Studies in Architecture
ARTH 356  Studies in Materials and Processes of Art
ARTH 373  Issues in Contemporary Canadian Art: The Aesthetics and Rhetorics of Installation
ARTH 374  Architecture and Urbanism in Montreal
ARTH 375  Issues in the Montreal Art Milieu
ARTH 383  Art and Philosophy