Our people
With over 20 faculty members spread over nine departments across campus, the range of specialties we offer is remarkable—from vampires and the ancient world to horror, gender studies, action movies and queer cinema, to name a few.
Our faculty also specializes in films from Africa, Germany, Russia, Southeast Asia, Japan, the Caribbean, Quebec, France, Italy and China, as well as other destinations.
Department of Art History & Visual Studies
Astri Wright
Professor
Bollywood: popular visual culture in India (1950s-present), and the Indian Diaspora (1980-present)
Mitch Parry
Associate Teaching Professor
Film aesthetics, apocalyptic film, international cinema, documentary, avant-garde film, slow cinema
Lianne McLarty
Associate professor
Film theory and criticism, cultural studies, and feminist theory
Department of English
Lincoln Shlensky
Associate Professor
Postcolonialism, Caribbean literature and film, cultural and film studies, and Victorian literature
Department of French
Emile Fromet
Assistant professor
Post-Enlightenment French and comparative literature, Romanticism, modernist poetics, digital humanities
Department of Gender Studies
Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy
Lecturer
Anishinaabe knowledges, Indigenous land-based practices, gender and decolonization
Chase Joynt
Associate Professor
Filmmaker (Framing Agnes), cinema & media studies, documentary film production, trans studies & queer theory
Office: CLE B103
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Helga Thorson
Associate Professor
Modernist German and Austrian literature, gender studies, history of medicine, and Holocaust studies
Charlotte Schallié
Assistant Professor
Post-1945 German, Swiss and Austrian literature and film, after-images of the Holocaust in literature and film
Olga Pressitch
Assistant Teaching Professor
Ukrainian language and culture; Eastern European cinema
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies
Dan Russek
Professor
20th & 21st century Latin American literature, visual arts, aesthetics and urban studies, literature and philosophy
Christine Forster
Continuing sessional instructor
Spanish language, Latin American culture and film
Silvia Colás Cardona
Associate Teaching Professor
Spanish language, Hispanic culture, civilization, film
Maria Bettaglio
Assistant Professor
20th century Spanish and Italian literature, critical theory, translation theory, gender studies
School of Music
Department of Pacific and Asian Studies
Michael Bodden
Professor
Indonesian-Malay language, Southeast Asian culture & literature, Indonesian theatre & literature, Southeast Asian cinema, graphic narratives
Department of Philosophy
Dr. Nina Belmonte
Assistant Teaching Professor
History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Film.
Office: CLE B318
Department of Writing
Kevin Kerr
Associate Professor
Stage, screen, collaborative creation, site-specific theatre, multi-media performance.
Daniel Hogg
Digital Media Arts Specialist & Instructor
Film production, screenwriting, story editing, digital media, typography & design.
Maureen Bradley
Professor
Film production, experimental film, drama, documentary, Canadian and Queer media arts