Professor Rosanna Maule - Concordia University

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

Biography

Education

PhD (University of Iowa)

Professor

Rosanna Maule is Professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. She joined Concordia University in 2000. She holds a PhD (2000) in Communications with concentration in Film Studies from the University of Iowa, USA.

She is the author of Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video OrganizationsA Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History (Routledge, 2023); Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse: Women's Cinema 2.0 (Palgrave, 2016); Beyond Auteurism: New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy, and Spain since the 1980s. (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2008) and the main editor of In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009).

She is developing two SSHRC-funded research projects: one on women's film festivals as global circuits of feminist collaboration and activism and one focused on the Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona, Barcelona's International Women's film Festival, established in 1993.

She has published several articles, book chapters, and edited special issues of film journals in areas of her expertise. With Guylaine Dionne, she co-directed a feature-length documentary film about the role of women filmmakers in narrative films, completed in 2018, which premièred at the Seoul's International Women's Film Festival and is accessible on the website of the Réalisatrices Equitables.

In 2022 she co-organized the conference PPP/RRR (Pier Paolo Pasolini/Riprese Reprises Retakes, held at the universities of Concordia, UQAM, and St Paul). In 2016, she organized the international film conference Women, Film Culture, and Globalization at Concordia University.
She is on the editorial board of film journals Cinémas, Mimesis, and of Quaderni del CSCI, and a collaborator of TECHNE, which investigates the technical history of cinema in the digital age.

Research interests

During the past fifteen years Maule's research interest has been focusing on feminist and LGBTQIA film media practices andactivities developed in independent and grassroots contexts such as non-profit,radical, and activist collectives, organizations, cooperatives, associations,and festivals led by women and women .

Her research expertise includes contemporary film history, with emphasis on Western European cinemas, early cinema, contemporary film theory, including feminist theory and criticism, theories and practices of authorship in film and media, theories of national cinemas, postmodern theory, women's cinema and new media, women's film culture and cinephilia.

At Concordia University, Maule offers courses and seminars based on her areas of expertise.

She taught workshops at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba) and offers doctoral seminars at Roma 3 University, two institutions with which she has helped establish academic links.