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Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Faculty members

Film Animation

Full-time

  • Luigi Allemano
    • Associate Professor, Film Animation Undergraduate Program, Cinema
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: 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

Part-time (partial list)

Film Production

Full-time

  • Sofia Brockenshire
    • Assistant Professor, LTA, Cinema
  • Jean-Claude Bustros
    • Associate Professor (Film Production), Cinema
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: 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
    • Guylaine Dionne Graduate Program Director in Cinematic Arts Associate Professor Film Production Program The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Cinema
    status: Graduate Program Director in Cinematic Arts/Associate Professor
  • Richard Kerr
    • Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  • Louise Lamarre
    • Professor (Film Production), Cinema
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: Moving image arts; Experimental film and video; hybrid non-fiction film and video; Environmental art; Anthropocene studies; Ecofeminism; Sound art
  • Michael Yaroshevsky
    • Associate Professor (Film Production), Undergraduate Program Director, Cinema

Part-time (partial list)

Film and Moving Image Studies

Full-time

  • Farah Atoui
    • Assistant Professor, Cinema
    Research areas: postcolonial and decolonial media and film; visual culture and activism; critical borders and migration studies; cinema and video art from Arab World and its diasporas; transnational media-based solidarity.
  • Luca Caminati
    • Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
    Research areas: postcolonial theory, orientalism, cultural studies, globalization, transnationalism, documentary film, cultural histories of cinema, travel films, Italian cinema.
  • May Chew
    • Assistant Professor, Cinema
    • Assistant Professor, Art History
    Research areas: 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.
  • Cael Marcas Keegan
    • Associate Professor, Fine Arts
    Research areas: transgender and queer phenomenologies, transgender and queer theories, queer/trans moving images, LGBTQ+ media histories, LGBTQ+ cultural production, gender and sex on screen, popular cinemas, genre, cultural studies, affect, video games
  • Martin Lefebvre
    • Chair of the School of Cinema; Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies (Hon.), Cinema
    Research areas: 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
    status: Professor
    Research areas: process philosophy, neurodiversity, research-creation, ProTactile, blackness, ecology
  • Rosanna Maule
    • Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
    Research areas: 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
    status: Canada Research Chair and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab
    Research areas: global media, digital culture, China/Asia, cultural theory, political theory, overdevelopment
  • Nicolas Renaud
  • Peter Rist
    • Professor (Film Studies) , Cinema
  • Catherine Russell
    • Distinguished Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: 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
  • Ishita Tiwary
    • Canada Research Chair, Media and Migration, Cinema
    • Assistant Professor, Cinema
    Research areas: video cultures, video platforms, media infrastructures, migration, informal media practices
  • Haidee Wasson
    • Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Inclusion, Fine Arts
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Cinema
    Research areas: 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

Part-time (partial list)

Affiliated faculty

  • Charles R. Acland
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: 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
    • Graduate Program Director - PhD, Communication Studies
    • Director, Concordia Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games
    Research areas: game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture.
  • Monika Kin Gagnon
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: 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
    Research areas: Ireland, Performance, Theatre, Film, Activism, Performativity, Inerculturalism, Gender, Race, Class, Horror, The Uncanny, Postcolonialism, Feminism
  • Elena Razlogova
    • Associate Professor, History
  • Johanne Sloan
    • Professor, Art History
    Research areas: Contemporary Art, Canadian Art since the 1960s, Landscape, Art and Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Urban Art and Culture
  • Darren Wershler
    • Concordia University Research Chair, Media & Contemporary Literature, Tier 2, English
    • Associate Professor, English
    Research areas: media history / video game studies / communication studies / contemporary literature / avant-garde poetics
  • Orit Halpern
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Emeritus faculty

  • Marielle Nitoslawska
    • Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  • Thomas Waugh
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Cinema
    Research areas: 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
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