Samantha Wilson is a PhD student in the Film and Moving Images Studies program at Concordia University. She completed her Bachelor degree at Trent University with a double major in Philosophy and Cultural Studies with a specialization in Image, Sound and Performance. She focused primarily on political theory and ethics. She chose to broaden her understanding of analytic philosophy by attending University of St. Andrews in Scotland where the focus of her thesis was on intrinsic value in environmental ethics. After completing her MLitt Samantha has remained engaged with environmental theory and is currently completing research on the formal depiction of the natural landscape in 19th century photography and early cinema, and the philosophical conception of the sublime. Her other research interests include: Avant-garde and Experimental film; Indigenous media; film and photographic technology; Romantic landscape painting; Post-structuralism; and, Critical Theory, specifically the Frankfurt School and Marxism.
Contact: swilso@alcor.concordia.ca
