Faculty members

• Luigi Allemano

  Associate Professor, Film Animation Undergraduate Program, Cinema
  

  animation, drawing, music making, improvisation, sound, cinema, sound design, visual music, music composition, film scores, film/media production, abstraction in visual art, sound effects, media arts, animation theory, pre-cinematic animation, experimental animation, transdisciplinarity, animation studies, aleatoric music
• Shira Avni

  Associate Professor (Film Animation), Cinema
  

  Neurodiversity, motherhood, animation, animated documentary, under camera animation, clay animation, direct animation, community based animation, autism, gender and neurodiversity, Down syndrome, maternal health, diversity, inclusion, social justice animation
• Luc Otter

  ETA, Full-time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  

  animation director, computer animation, traditional animation, character animation, clay animation, stop motion animation, film directing, art direction for film/video, media arts, film/media production, sculpture, drawing, puppetry, music videos, children's media, sound, visual effects, composting, cinema, animation
• Cilia Sawadogo

  Associate Professor in Film Animation, Cinema
  

  animation, cinema, film/media production, direct animation, digital media, community-based, African animation , storytelling, traditional animation, drawing, computer animation, media arts, children's media, short films¿, animation film

• Luc Chamberland

  Part-time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  
• Sandra Eber

  Part-time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  
• Rene Fontaine

  Part-time Faculty, Cinema
  
• Erik Goulet

  Part-time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  
• Stephen Menzies

  Part-Time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  Part-time Faculty, Design and Computation Arts
  
• Valery Mihalkov

  Part-time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  
• Jean Théberge

  Part-Time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  

• Sofia Brockenshire

  Assistant Professor, LTA, Cinema
  
• Jean-Claude Bustros

  Associate Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  

  generative storytelling, responsive environments, urban embedded cinema, screen-based reactive arts, screen culture, experimental cinema, interactivity, visual adaptive storyscapes, cinema, film/media production, storytelling, interaction design, interactive narrative, future cinema, intelligent images, spatialization, ubiquitous computing, hypercinema, urban futures
• Daniel Cross

  Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  
• Roy Cross

  Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  

  fiction,script writing, cinema, black and white, 35mm, 16mm, silent films, sound design, portraiture, storytelling, cinematography, old/new, low budget processes, independent films, feature films, short films, non-toxic, sustainable film processing, labcaf
• Guylaine Dionne
• Richard Kerr

  Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  
• Louise Lamarre

  Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  

  Holo Editorial Layering Process, l'Atlas Cinematographique, moving image technologies, film/media production, cinema, craft of fiction, documentary making, film directing, screenwriting, storytelling, independent films, in-camera special effects, feature films, music videos, television, corporate films, advertising strategies, creative producing, multi platforms broadcasting
• Marianna Marta Milhorat

  Assistant Professor, Cinema
  

  Moving image arts; Experimental film and video; hybrid non-fiction film and video; Environmental art; Anthropocene studies; Ecofeminism; Sound art
• Marielle Nitoslawska

  Professor (Film Production); Concordia Research Chair in Experimental Nonfiction Practices, Cinema
  
• Michael Yaroshevsky

  Associate Professor (Film Production), Undergraduate Program Director, Cinema
  

• Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers

  Part-time Professor, Cinema
  
• Mary Ellen Davis

  Part-time Faculty, Cinema
  

  cinema, art, culture, activism, solidarity, social justice, historical memory
• Federico Hidalgo

  Part-time Faculty, Cinema
  Part-time Faculty, Communication Studies
  
• Andrew Lima

  Part-time Faculty (Film Production), Cinema
  
• Francois Miron

  Part-time Faculty (Film Production), Cinema
  

  Filmmaking
• Roland Pollak

  Part-time Faculty (Film Production), Cinema
  
• Marcus Von Holtzendorff

  Part-time Faculty (Film Animation), Cinema
  
• Wiebke von Carolsfeld

  Professor, Cinema
  

  directing, screenwriting, editing, feature film, independent film, documentary, shorts, drama, comedy, international co-productions, prose/novel writing
• Michael Wees

  Assistant Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  
• Ivan Gekoff

  Part-time Professor, Cinema
  

• Luca Caminati

  Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
  

  postcolonial theory, orientalism, cultural studies, globalization, transnationalism, documentary film, cultural histories of cinema, travel films, hybrid nonfiction films, Italian cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini.
• May Chew

  Assistant Professor, Art History
  Assistant Professor, Cinema
  

  interactivity and immersion; public art and social engagement; affect; haunting and spectrality; cultural studies; visual and material cultures; museums and archives; critical race studies; settler and postcolonial studies.
• Terri Ginsberg

  Assistant Professor, Cinema
  

  Arab and Middle Eastern cinema, gender and sexuality studies, German cinema, critical theory and Marxism, methods of pedagogy and institutional critique
• Martin Lefebvre

  Chair of the School of Cinema; Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies (Hon.), Cinema
  

  General and applied semiotics, philosophy (Peirce and pragmatism, Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language, epistemology, hermeneutics, aesthetics), classical and contemporary film theories, modern and postmodern film, narrative theory, cultural studies, cinéma québécois, Hollywood cinema, Hitchcock, Eisenstein, Truffaut, Godard and the French New Wave.
• John Locke

  Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
  
• Erin Manning

  Professor, Studio Arts
  Professor, Cinema
  

  process philosophy, neurodiversity, research-creation
• Rosanna Maule

  Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
  

  women and film/media, feminist media studies, creative economy, women's cinephilia, feminist theory, contemporary auteur cinema, moving image studies, postmodernism, globalization and women's cinema, silent films, film/media theory, theories of national cinemas, critical theory, screen culture, history of the moving image, French cinema, Italian cinema, Spanish cinema, literary theory
• Joshua Neves

  Associate Professor, Cinema
  

  global media, digital culture, China/Asia, cultural theory, political theory, overdevelopment
• Peter Rist

  Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
  
• Catherine Russell

  Distinguished Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
  

  cinephilia, experimental cinema, Japanese cinema, ethnographic film, women and film/media, cultural studies, film/media theory, criticism, North American cinema, melodrama, Walter Benjamin, phantasmagoria, classic Hollywood, film/media historiography, moving image studies, urban futures, cinema, Japan, sound, history of media arts
• Masha Salazkina

  Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
  Concordia University Research Chair in Transnational Media Arts and Cultures
  

  transnationalism, Marxist theory, cinema, civil society, Latin America, Soviet film, history of film theory/criticism, sound, "Third Cinemas", New Latin American Cinema, Thirdworldism, political cinema, cultural studies, history of film education, global socialist/postsocialist cultures, postcolonialism, film institutions, history of film festivals, translation in cinema
• Marc Steinberg

  Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
  Director, The Platform Lab, Cinema
  

  digital platforms, platform economics, media industries, media management, transmedia, animation, Japanese anime, digital culture, character merchandising, media studies, digital media, Internet history, media theory, visual culture, East Asia
• Haidee Wasson

  Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
  

  muselogy, feminism, moving image technologies, portable film technologies, cultural histories of cinema, moving image studies, film/media historiography, women and film/media, film/media theory, cultural studies, history of media arts, cinema, sound, television, web videos, critical curatorial studies, emergent media
• Ishita Tiwary

  Assistant Professor, Cinema
  Canada Research Chair, Media and Migration, Cinema
  

  video cultures, video platforms, media infrastructures, migration, informal media practices
• Nicolas Renaud

  Assistant Professor - First Peoples Studies, School of Community and Public Affairs
  

• Troy Michael Bordun

  Part-time Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
  Part-time Faculty (Film Studies), Cinema
  

  contemporary art cinema, celebrity, fan culture, sex in the cinema, porn studies, cultural studies, sociology of gender, sociology of culture, comics studies
• David Douglas

  Part-time Professor, Cinema
  
• Johanne Larue

  Part-time Faculty (Film Studies and Film Production), Cinema
  
• Alison Reiko Loader

  Part-time Faculty, Design and Computation Arts
  Part-time Faculty, Cinema
  
• Donato Totaro

  Part-time Faculty (Film Studies), Cinema
  

  Film Criticism, horror genre, Andrei Tarkovsky, cinema and temporality, film style
• Irene Rozsa

  Part-time Faculty (Film Studies), Cinema
  
• Dragan Batancev

  Reserve Course Instructor, Cinema
  

Affiliated faculty

• Charles R. Acland

  Distinguished University Research Professor, Communication Studies
  

  Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries
• Mia Consalvo

  Professor and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, Communication Studies
  

  game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture.
• Monika Kin Gagnon

  Department Chair
  Professor, Communication Studies
  

  experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics
• Krista Lynes

  Professor, Communication Studies
  Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies
  Director, Feminist Media Studio
  

  feminist media studies; contemporary art and activism; queer theory; migration studies; globalization; border theory; feminist STS; infrastructure studies; critical race studies; affect; research-creation; environmental humanities
• Emer O'Toole

  Performance Studies, School of Irish Studies
  

  Ireland, Performance, Theatre, Film, Activism, Performativity, Inerculturalism, Gender, Race, Class
• Elena Razlogova

  Associate Professor, History
  
• Johanne Sloan

  Professor, Art History
  

  Contemporary Art, Canadian Art since the 1960s, Landscape, Art and Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Urban Art and Culture
• Darren Wershler

  Associate Professor, English
  Concordia University Research Chair, Media & Contemporary Literature, Tier 2, English
  

  media history / video game studies / communication studies / contemporary literature / avant-garde poetics
• Orit Halpern

  Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
  

Emeritus faculty

• Thomas Waugh

  Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Cinema
  

  documentaries, film/media theory, queer studies, sexual representation, Canadian cinema, cinema quebecois, HIV/AIDS, queer film/media, Joris Ivens, independent Indian cinema, pornography, homoeroticism, history of the moving image, gender and sexuality, identity/territory, social change, cultural studies, Quebec studies, activism