Ambros, Veronika - Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languates & Literature

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
CzechAlumni Hall,
121 St. Joseph Street, Room 405
Tel: 416-926 1300 ext. 3200 ~ fax: 416-926 9751
E-mail: veronika.ambros@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
PhD, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
M.A. Free University of Berlin (Germany)
B.A. University zu Koeln

Courses:
Elementary Czech (SLA 205Y )
Czech and Slovak Cinema (SLA 225S)
SLA 405H - replacing History of Czech and Slovak Literatures
History of the Czech Verbal Art (SLA 425 Y)
Readings in Czech (SLA 435Y )
Czech Style and Syntax (SLA 4xx/ 1602H)
Magic Prague 39S (SLA 445H)
Journeys and Home in Modern Czech Fiction (SLA 1601H )
Czech Style and Syntax (SLA 4xx/ 1602H )
Readings in Czech/Russian Literary Theory (SLA 1603Y)
History of the Czech Literary Language (SLA 1604Y)
Modern Czech Drama (SLA 1605H)
Theatre and Cinema in Extremis: Staging Twentieth Century Aesthetics and Politics/V. Ambros, T. Trojanowska (SLA 1037Y )
SLA 1600 H(Y) - instead of History of Czech and Slovak Literatures

Publications:

Refereed:
2001: "The Anabases of the Good Soldier Švejk" Bratislava, VSMU,49-62.
"Presýpací Hodiny - Aneb Pražská Semiotika Divadla a Dramatu V Kontextu Soudobých Semiotických Teorií" Divadelni Revue. 22-27
"Modern Czech Women Writers after 1945" A History of Central European WomenOs Writing. Houndmills, Palgrave, 201-219.
"Creating a Space of One's Own: The German Theatre In Prague Between The Wars" Deutsschsprachiges Theater in Prag, Praha, Divadelní ústav, 264-272.

Forthcoming:
"Magnetic Fields. Theatre of the Avant-garde in Prague after 1918,"
"The Great War As A Carnival"
Melancholy and Fear in the Work of Milada Soucková

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Armatage, Kay - Professor, Institute of Women & Gender Studies; Innis College Cinema Studies

Contact information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Innis College
2 Sussex Avenue
Toronto, ON - M5S 2L8
Tel: 416-978-8572
Fax: 416-978-5503
E-Mail: kay.armatage@utoronto.ca

Courses:

http://www.utoronto.ca/filmwoman

Publications:

BOOKS
(Author) The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003).
(Co-Editor) Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).
(Editor) Equity and How to Get It. (Toronto: Inanna Press, 1999).
ARTICLES
“Wieland’s (not God’s) Far Shore,” anthology on Canadian filmmakers, ed. George Melnyk, forthcoming 2007.
“Seeing and Hearing Salome,” co-authored with Caryl Clark, Image and Territory: New Essays on Atom Egoyan, ed. Monique Tschofen & Jennifer Burwell (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2006).
“New Taiwanese Women Filmmakers,” for anthology on Asian women filmmakers, ed. Wu Fan, Taiwan University Press. In press.
“Professional Autobiography,” Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada, eds. M. Eichler, M. Luxton, W. Robbins, F. Descarries, 2500 wds., completed May 30, 2005, in press.
Entry on Nell Shipman, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, ed. Gerald Hallowell, Oxford University Press, 2004.
"Sex and Snow: Landscape and Identity in the God’s Country Films of Nell Shipman,” American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized Voices, ed. Gregg Bachman & Thomas Slater, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, 125-147.
"Fashion and Fetish in Canadian Film", Topia Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring 2002.
"Landscape, Ethnicity and Nation in Nell Shipman's Canadian Films", Pioneers of the Cinema, ed. Tom Slater. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
"Janis Cole and Holly Dale: Cinema of Marginality," North of Everything, ed. Jerry White, University of Alberta Press, 2002.
"Nell Shipman: A Case of Heroic Femininity", Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Reprinted from Feminisms in the Cinema, eds. Ada Testafieri & Laura Petropaulo. Bloomington: Indiana Press, 1995, 125-145.
"The Feminine Body: Joyce Wieland's Water Sark", The Films of Joyce Wieland, ed. Kathryn Elder. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1999. Reprinted from Dialogue, eds. Pierre Verraneau, Seth Feldman & Michael Dorland, (Montreal: Mediatexte Publications Inc., 1987); also published in Canadian Woman Studies, Spring 1987.
"Collaborating on Women's Studies: The University of Toronto Model", Graduate Women's Studies: Visions and Realities, ed. Ann B. Shteir, Toronto: Inanna Publications, 1996, 11-20.
"The Body That Disappears Into Thin Air: Vera Frenkel's Video Work", Mirror Machine: Video in the Age of Identity, ed. Janine Marchessault, YYZ Books, 1995.

lleti, Berlin: Humboldt University, 1996), 53-60.
"Les Silences du Palais, Moufida Tlatli and Tunisian Women Filmmakers", Cine-Action, no. 38-39, Back to list 1994.
"History of Canadian Women Filmmakers", Changing Angles, ed. Mary McDougall Maude, Toronto: TWIFT,

Cazdyn, Eric - Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Department of East Asian Studies
Room NF 324
Tel: 416-585-4443
Fax: 416-978-5503
E-mail:e.cazdyn@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
MA in Comparative Literature
PhD in Literature, University of California, San Diego

Areas of Interest:
Cultural Theory
Modern Japanese Cultural History, specializing in Japanese Film literature
Theories of Colonialism and Globalization
International Film History and Film Theory.

Courses :
Globalization and Culture,
The Japanese Cinemas: Film Form and the Problems of Modernity,
Japanese Literature and the Nation, and On Comparativity and Crisis.

Publications :
Books
2002 :"The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan", Duke University Press :analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its one hundred year film history, illuminating the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders-where culture and capital crisscross-and, in doing so, develops a new way of understanding historical change and transformation in modern Japan and beyond.

Articles published in:
Japan Forum,
South Atlantic Quarterly,
Social Text,
The Review of Education,
Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, and Alphabet City.

Presently, he is writing a manuscript entitled Every Film Thinking: Film as Thought as History, in which he examines the films of Haneda Sun-tiko and Chris Marker in order to re-plot the history of post-war Japan and re-think the basic concepts of film and history

Video:
Sky's the Limit, 2002: it has been screened at various conferences and published in scenario form, examines the relation between contemporary globalizing processes and the nation-state.

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Columpar, Corinn - Associate Professor, Department of English; Innis College Cinema Studies

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave. Room 232A
Phone: 416.946.0213 Email: corinn.columpar@utoronto.ca

Academic Background : B.A. (Yale University); M.A., Ph.D. (Emory University)

Teaching and Research Interests:

film theory; feminist film criticism; the filmmaking practices and textual politics of various counter cinematic traditions (feminist, queer, aboriginal, "independent"); film, colonialism, and postcolonial theory; American independent film; Australian and New Zealand cinemas; corporeality and representation

Courses Taught:

UNDERGRADUATE:
Introduction to Film Study
Film Theory
Women and Representation
American Independent Film
Australian and New Zealand Cinema
Corporeality and Cinema

GRADUATE:
Intertextuality in Feminist Cinema: Talking Back to Patriarchal Texts
Text, Context, Intertext: The Touch of Evil Project
The Textuality of the Body

Publications:

Books

Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film, (Carbondale: South Illinois University Press, 2010)

There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond, co-editor with Sophie Mayer (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009)

Articles:
 
"Introduction" and “At the Limits of Visual Representation: Tracey Moffatt’s Still and Moving Images," There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond

 “’Taking Care of Her Green Stone Wall’: The Experience of Space in Once Were Warriors,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 24:5 (October 2007).

“Re-Membering the Time-Travel Film: From La Jetée to Primer,” Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media 9 (2006).
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“Colonialism/Postcolonialism,” Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006).

“The Dancing Body: Sally Potter as Feminist Auteure” in Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, ed. Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002).

“The Gaze as Theoretical Touchstone: The Intersection of Film Studies, Feminist Theory, and Postcolonial Theory,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 30, no. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2002).

“’Til Death Do Us Part: Identity and Friendship in Heavenly Creatures,” in Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood, ed. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002).

“Marnie: A Site/Sight for the Convergence of Gazes,” Hitchcock Annual (1999-2000).

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Keil, Charlie - Director, Cinema Studies Institute
Associate Professor, Department of History; Innis College Cinema Studies


Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Innis College Room 232
2 Sussex Ave.
Tel : 416-978-0839
E-mail: charlie.keil@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Film)
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Film)
B.A. University of Toronto (English)

Areas of Cinema Specialty: National Cinemas, Specifically: American Cinema, Early Cinema, Film Analysis

Courses:
Introduction to Film Study
Film History
History and Film
American Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Film Comedy
Film Noir
Models of Film Analysis
Early Cinema
Cinema and Technology

Publications:

Books:

American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices. Co-edited with Shelley Stamp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style and Filmmaking, 1907-1913. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

Entries/Chapters in Books (Selected):

The Griffith Project, vols. III-IX (BFI)
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (Routledge)
The Sounds of Early Cinema (Indiana)
The End of Cinema as We Know It (NYU)
Documenting the Documentary (Wayne State)

Journal Articles (Selected):

Cinema Journal
Film History
Iris
Journal of Film and Video
Persistence of Vision

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King, Rob – Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies Institute/Department of History

Contact Information
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave.
Room 325
Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
Ph: (416) 978-8839
Email: rob.king@utoronto.ca

Courses
Film History
“B” Movies and Cult Cinema
Historiography (MA)
Early Cinema and Mass Culture (MA)
Film Comedy and Popular Culture (MA)

Academic Background
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 2004 (Film)
M.A. University of Warwick 1998 (Film)
B.A. Oxford University 1997 (Classics)

Publications
Books –

• The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (University of California Press, forthcoming 2008).
• Early Cinema and the “National,” co-edited with Richard Abel and Giorgio Bertellini (John Libbey Publishing, 2008).

Articles –

• “‘A Purely American Product’: Tramp Comedy and White Working-Class Formation in the 1910s,” in Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini, and Rob King, eds., Nation and the “National” in Early Cinema (John Libbey Publishing, 2008): 234-245.
•  “Slapstick and Mis-Remembrance: Buster Keaton’s Columbia Shorts,” New Review of Film and Television Studies 5.3 (December 2007): 333-352.
•  “‘Uproarious Inventions’: The Keystone Film Company, Modernity, and the Art of the Motor,” Film History 19.3 (Fall 2007): 271-291.
• “‘Made for the Masses with an Appeal to the Classes’: The Triangle Film Corporation and the Failure of Highbrow Film Culture,” Cinema Journal 44.2 (Winter 2005): 3-33.
• “The Kid from The Kid: Jackie Coogan and the Consolidation of Child Consumerism,” Velvet Light Trap 48 (Fall 2001): 4-19.

Minor publications –

• Entries on Roscoe Arbuckle, the Keystone Film Company, Fred Mace, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, and Ford Sterling for Richard Abel, ed., Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (London: Routledge, 2005).
• Review essay of Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp, eds., American Cinema’s Transitional Era (2004), Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 32.2 (Winter 2005): 78-85.

Research Interests/Areas of Cinema Specialty
Early cinema and slapstick;
Cultural hierarchy and the politics of “mass” culture;
Class and social formation in early twentieth-century America;
Marxist/neo-Marxist cultural theory;
Ethics and contemporary film theory

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Lahusen, Thomas - Professor, Deparment of History; Centre for Comparative Literature

Canada Research Chair in History, Arts and Culture

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
319 N Munk Centre for International Studies
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7, Canada
Tel : 416-946-8966
Fax: 416-978-4810
E-mail: thomas.lahusen@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
1983: Doctorat ès lettres, University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
Dissertation: "Autour de l"´homme nouveau". Allocution et société en Russie au XIXe siècle. Essai de sémiologie de la source littéraire. "
1976-79: Postgraduate studies : general linguistics and semiotics (University of Geneva).
1974: Licence ès lettres (University of Lausanne).
1966-68 & 1972-74: University of Lausanne, Faculté des lettres: Slavic languages & literature; history; general linguistics.
1968-72: University of Warsaw, Poland, Departments of Polish and Russian Philology. Major concentration: Polish and Russian literature. Minor: compared linguistics of Slavic languages, history.

Courses:
Soviet Cultural History -- http://ccnet.utoronto.ca/20049/his335h1f/ -- (HIS 335)
Comparative Totalitarian Culture -- http://individual.utoronto.ca/lah/courses/HIS1282H-F.03.html -- (HIS 1282)
Courses taught in Spring 2005:
Experiences of Real Socialism -- http://ccnet.utoronto.ca/20051/his1281hs/ -- (HIS 1281)
A Journey from Petersburg to Los Angeles -- http://ccnet.utoronto.ca/20051/col5044hs/ -- (COL5044)

Publications:

Books
2002 : How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia (Cornell University Press, 1997), 247 p.
O sintetizme, matematike i prochem. Roman "My" E. I. Zamiatina (On Synthetism, Mathematics and Other Matters: Zamiatin's Novel We) (St. Petersburg: Sudarynia, 1994), 116 p. Coauthors: Edna Andrews and Elena Maksimova.
Autour de l'"homme nouveau" . Allocution et société en Russie au XIXe siècle. Essai de sémiologie de la source littéraire (Wien: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 1982), 336 p. [Sonderband 9].

Edited books and collections
2001 : Harbin: Histoire, Mémoire et Différence. Revue des 'études slaves, 73: 2-3 , 277-445.
Harbin and Manchuria: Place, Space, and Identity. The South Atlantic Quarterly 99:1
1999 : Aube Rouge: Les Années Trente en Extrême-Orient soviétique. Revue des etudes slaves 71: 1 : 7-130.

In progress
The Cinefication of a Russian Province (monograph)
"Filming Riazan." Documentary film (with Alexander Gershtein & Tracy McDonald) . First cut: 2005.
"Komsomolsk mon amour." Documentary film (with Alexander Gershtein & Tracy McDonald). First cut: 2005.

Recent articles and chapters in collections:
2003 :
"Miru mir," or, "What Was Soviet Real Socialism?" Centre News. Centre for Russian & East European Studies, 12-14. http://www.utoronto.ca/crees/news/sep03/September03.pdf
"Cemento (Fëdor Vasil'evic Gladkov, 1925)." In Il Romanzo, vol. 4. Temi, luoghi, eroi, ed. Franco Moretti (Torino: Einaudi, 2003), 383-390.

2002 :
"An Archival Journey into Stalin's Russia." In Lost in the Archives, ed. Rebecca Comay. Alphabet City 8 , 611-619.
"From Laughter 'Out of Sync' to Post-Synchronized Comedy: How the Stalinist Film Musical Caught up with Hollywood and Overtook It." Socialist Cultures East and West: A Post-Cold War Reassessment, ed. Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker (Praeger), 31-42.
Web version: http://www.virginia.edu/crees/Lahusen.pdf
"Ot nesinkhronizirovannogo smekha k post-sinkhronizirovannoi komedii, ili Kak stalinskii miuzikl dognal i peregnal Gollivud." In Sovetskoe bogatstvo: Stat'i o kul'ture, literature i kino. K sestidesiatiletiiu Khansa Giuntera, ed. Marina Balina, Evgenii Dobrenko, Iurii Murashov (St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt), 342-357.
"Se souvenir de la Chine, inventer Israël: Mémoires de la différence," Revue des études slaves, vol. 72: 2-3 : 283-291.

2001:
"Dr. Fu Manchu in Harbin: Cinema and Movie Goers of the 1930s." The South Atlantic Quarterly 99:1 : 143-161.
"Remembering China, Imagining Israel: The Memory of Difference." The South Atlantic Quarterly 99:1 : 253-268.
A French version was published in Harbin: Histoire, Mémoire et Différence

Forthcoming
"Colonized Colonizers: The Poles of Manchuria." In : Crossed Histories: Manchuria in the Age of Empire. Ed. Mariko Tamanoi (Hawaii University Press, 2005).
"Cement, by Fedor Gladkov." English version of the article published in Il Romanzo, ed. Franco Moretti. (Princeton University Press)
"Soviet Socialist Realism" in The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Greenwood, 2005).
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Professional organizations:
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS)
American Historical Association (AHA)

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Lancashire, Anne - Professor, Department of English

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
University College, Room 277
15 King's College Circle
Phone: 416-978-6270
Fax: 416-971-2027
E-mail:anne@chass.utoronto.ca

Academic background:
B.A. McGill University A.M. & Ph.D. Harvard University

Areas of Interest/Research:
· medieval and Renaissance theatre history
· English Renaissance drama
· contemporary popular American film
· science-fiction film

Teaching areas:
· medieval and Renaissance drama (including Shakespeare)
· medieval and Renaissance theatre history
· contemporary popular American film
· science-fiction film
· literature and film
· English Canadian drama

Courses:
English Canadian Drama (ENG 223F/S)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Film (formerly ENG 273F/S) (ENG 238F/S)
Drama to 1558 (ENG 330F/S)
Drama to 1642 (ENG 332Y)
Contemporary Popular American Film (INI 225Y)
London Drama 1180-1590 (ENG 2485 F/S)
Drama and Pageantry 1580-1642 (ENG 2623 F/S)
Drama of the 1580s (ENG 2483 F/S)
Shakespeare's Rivals 1590-1603 (ENG 2671 F/S)
Shakespeare's Rivals 1603-1625 (ENG 2672 F/S)
Speculative Fiction and Film (ENG 6155 Y)

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Livak, Leonid - Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literature

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
121 St Joseph Street
Room #407
Phone: 416- 926-1300 - 3143
E-mail: leo.livak@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
1996 Slavic MA received at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
1998 French MA received at the Middlebury College
1999 PHD received at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Courses:
Russian & Soviet Cinema (SLA234)
Russian and Soviet Film Comedy (New for 2006-07)

Areas of Cinema Specialty: National Cinemas
Specifically: Russian & Soviet Cinema

Genre studies:
Russian and Soviet Film Comedy
Russian and Soviet Animated Film

Areas of Interest/Research:
19th & 20th century Russian literature and culture
19th & 20th century French literature and culture
Comparative literature
Russian - Jewish cultural relations

Publications:
Book
How it was done in Paris: Russian Emigre literature and French modernism. - Madison, University of Wisconsin Press (2003)

Periodical: From the other Shore: Russian writers abroad, Past & Present.

Why Teach Cinema?
Cinema is a major artistic mode of expression in 20th century Russian culture. It's a medium for the dissemination of esthetic and ideological information that has come to replace literature.

Links : www.utoronto.ca/slavic/faculty/livak.html

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MacKenzie, Scott – Assistant Professor, Department of French; Innis College Cinema Studies

Contact Information
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave.
Room 226
Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
Ph: 416-978-2878
Email: scot.mackenzie@utoronto.ca

Academic Background
B.A. McGill (Film & Communications)
M.A. McGill (Film & English)
Ph.D. McGill Communications

Teaching and Research Interests
Film theory; Canadian and Québécois cinemas; European cinemas (French, British & Nordic); film manifestoes; national and transnational cinemas; critical theory (Kracauer, Benjamin, Habermas); hybrid forms of documentary and experimental cinema; moving images and the public sphere.

Courses:
Film theory
French cinema

Publications:
Books
Hjort, Mette and Scott MacKenzie, eds. Cinema and Nation (London: Routledge, 2000)
Hjort, Mette and Scott MacKenzie, eds. Purity and Provocation: Dogme ’95 (London: BFI, 2003)
MacKenzie, Scott. Screening Québec: Québécois Moving Images, national Identity and the Public Sphere (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004)
Chapters (selected):
“Magnetic Hisotry: Vidéographe and the Legacy of Société nouvelle:” in Michael Baker, Thomas Waugh and Erza Winston, eds. Challenge for Change: The Collection (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, forthcoming 2009).
 “Société nouvelle: The Challenge for Change in the Alternative Public Sphere” in Michael Baker, Thomas Waugh and Erza Winston, eds. Challenge for Change: The Collection (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, forthcoming 2009).
 “From Cinema to History: Kracauer’s Shifting Philosophical Historiography” in Temenuga Trifonova, ed. European Film Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2008): 165-179.
 “A Screen of One’s Own: Early Cinema in Québec and the Public Sphere, 1906-1928” in Catherine Grant and Annette Kuhn, eds. Screening World Cinemas: A Screen Reader  (London: Routledge, 2006): 51-71.
 “Manifest Destinies: Dogma ‘95 and the Future of the Film Manifesto” in Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie, eds. Purity and Provocation: Dogma ‘95 (London: British Film Institute, 2003): 47-58.
 “Mimetic Nationhood: Ethnography and the National” in Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie, eds. Cinema and Nation (London: Routledge, 2000): 239-257.
Articles (selected):
“Life Drawings: Reflections on the Animated Documentary” POV Magazine 70 (2008): 22-25.
 “The Horror, Piglet, the Horror: Found Footage, Mash-ups, AMVs, the avant-garde, and the Strange Case of Apocalypse Pooh” Cinéaction 72 (2007): 8-15.
“Soviet Expansionism: Fédor Ozep’s Transnational Cinema” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 12.1 (2003): 93-104.
“Baise-moi, Feminist Cinemas and the Censorship Controversy” Screen 43.3 (2002): 315-324.
“Direct Dogma: Film Manifestos and the fin du siècle” p.o.v.: A Danish Journal of Film Studies 10 (2000): 159-170.
 “Lists and Chain Letters: Ethnic Cleansing, Holocaust Allegories and the Limits of Representation” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 9.2 (2000): 23-42.
“A Screen of One’s Own: Early Cinema in Québec and the Public Sphere, 1906-1928” Screen 41.2 (2000): 183-202.
 “National Identity, Canadian Cinema and Multiculturalism” Æ : Canadian Journal of Aesthetics 4 (1999). (on-line journal; http://www.uqtr.uquebec.caÆ/vol_4/index.htm)
 “Flowers in the Dustbin: Termite Culture and Detritus Cinema” Cinéaction 47 (1998): 24-29.
“The Missing Mythology: Barthes in Québec” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 6.2 (1997): 65-74.
 “A Line in the Snow: Visualizing Borders Imaginary and Real” Public 14 (1996): 56-65.
 “Mad Priests and the Mimetic Faculty: Ethnographic Film, Post-Colonialism, and the (new) World Order” Cinéaction 33 (1994): 12-22.

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Maurice, Alice -Assistant Professor, Department of English (UTSC)

Contact Information:
University of Toronto at Scarborough
Room H426
Phone: 416-287-7180
E-Mail: maurice@utsc.utoronto.ca

Teaching and Research Interests: Cinema Studies, American Literature, Narrative Theory, Women’s Studies

Degrees: B.A, Williams College; Ph.D., Cornell University

Publications:

"'Cinema At Its Source': Synchronizing Race and Sound in the Early Talkies," Camera Obscura 49 (Spring 2002).

"The Essence of Motion: Figure, Frame and the Racial Body in Early Silent Cinema," Moving Image 1.2 (Fall, 2001).

What the Shadow Knows: Race, Image, and Meaning in Shadows (1922 )," Cinema Journal 47.3 (Spring, 2007): 66-89.

Film & Video Productions:

Associate Producer, A Healthy Baby Girl (1997), Winner of the Peabody Award.

Associate Producer, Defending Our Lives (1994), Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.

Current Research:

Professor Maurice is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race, Apparatus, Meaning. The study focuses on race and realism in early U.S. cinema.

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Salutin, Rick - Lecturer, University College Canadian Studies

Canadian novelist, playwright and critic

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
University College
15 King's College Circle
Tel: 416-978-8131

Course taught: UNI221H - Culture & Media in Canada

Publications:
Books-
1980 : Kent Rowley: A Canadian Union Life
1984 : Marginal Notes: Challenges to the Mainstream - 1984
1988 : A Man of Little Faith (winner of the 1989 Books in Canada First Novel Award)
1989 : Waiting for Democracy - 1989
1991 : Living in a Dark Age - 1991
1995 : The Age of Improv - 1995
2002 : The Womanizer

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Sammond, Nicholas - Associate Professor, Department of English; Innis College Cinema Studies

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave.
Room 231
Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
Ph: (416) 978-7271
E-Mail:nic.sammond@utoronto.ca

Courses:
Film History
Comedy, Ideology and Discourse
Children in Movies

Academic Background:
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego 1999
M.A. University of California, San Diego 1996
B.A. Wesleyan University 1983

Publications:
Books-
Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960. (Duke University Press, 2005).

Steel Chair to the Head: the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling (editor). (Duke University Press, 2005).

Articles-
"Introduction" and "Squaring the Family Circle." In Steel Chair to the Head: the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling. Nicholas Sammond, ed. (Duke University Press, Spring 2005).

" 'What You Are ... I Wouldn't Eat': ethnicity, whiteness, and performing 'the Jew' in Hollywood's Golden Age" (Chandra Mukerji, co-author). In Classic Whiteness/Classic Hollywood, Daniel Bernardi, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

"Manufacturing the American Child: child-rearing and the rise of Walt Disney." Continuum 13:1 (April 1999).

"Tale as Old as Time: a fairy tale for commodities." theory@buffalo (Fall 1996).

Minor Publications
"Commodities, Commodity Fetishism, and Commodification." The Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer, ed. (Blackwell, 2005).

"Living at Death's Door." Cabinet, Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding, eds. Spring 2004.
"Domestic Comedy and Family Drama." The Encyclopedia of American Boyhood, Priscilla Clement, ed. (ABC-CLIO, 2001).

Current Publications
"Lillian Gilbreth's One Best Way: Industrial Cinema for the Home" (Camera Obscura, Scheduled Publication, December 2006).

Honours:
Katherine Singer Kovacs Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2006)
Connaught Start-Up Award, University of Toronto (2005)
Hobart and William Smith Faculty Research Grant, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2004)
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington University, Saint Louis (2001-2003)
George Haydu Prize for the Study of Culture, Behavior, and Human Values, UC San Diego (1999)
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow (1998)

Areas of Cinema Specialty:
Children and Film; Animation; Film Analysis; Film in Social and Cultural Practice

Why Teach Cinema?:
More than simply a medium, film was one of the central social forces of the 20th century, and may be for this one as well. Film analysis gives us a rich language for discussing and describing the world.

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Steele, Lisa - Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Fine Art (Visual Studies)

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Sidney Smith Hall
office: room 227D
Tel : 416 946-8150
E-mail: lisa.steele@utoronto.ca

Solo Exhibitions/Screenings:
2002 : Frankfurt Film Festival
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Sask
Pack Film, Vienna, Austria
2001 : International Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
Art System, Toronto March 1
2000 : Groupe d'Intervention Video, Montreal, retrospective screening.
City of York Public Gallery, York, England, March 30-April 8

Publications:
Books-
1996 Co-editor (with Peggy Gale), Video Re/View: the (Best) Source For Critical Writing On Canadian Video Art, (Toronto, Art Metropole and V tape, 1996)

Chapters in Books-
2002 "Bump in the Night" in Public #24, Being On Time. (Public Access, Toronto) p.117-127.

2000 "She Beards the Patriarchy and Moves On: the video work of Catherine Elwes" in Video Loupe (London: KT Press, 2000), p. 152-163.
"She," in LUX: celebrating 10 years of artists' film and video, Pleasure Dome (Toronto: YYZ Books, 2000) (with Kim Tomczak), p. 173-189.

1999 "Finding the DIFFEREN(t)CE: Looking for the Self and the Other" In Felix Voyeurism, ed Kathy High and Maria Venuto, New York: The Standby Program Inc., 1999),p. 255-271.

"A Case History" In Felix Voyeurism, ed Kathy High and Maria Venuto, New York: The Standby Program Inc., 1999),p. 138-142.

Catalogue Essay
1998 "...you're history - the electronic elan of contemporary video art." In Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art, Recent Canadian Video Production, 2. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1998. (unpaginated booklet

1996 "V Tape: To include, to expand V tape's on-going audience development project." In Video Art Plastique, 165-67. Basse-Normandie: Centre d'Art Contemprain de Basse-Normandie, 1996, p. 125-6.
"The Destabilized Landscape: post-colonial space and unreal estate"film, video and new media curated for the Edmonton Art Gallery and the Mendel Art Gallery.

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Testa, Bart - Senior Lecturer, Innis College Cinema Studies

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Innis College
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5A 1A1
Tel : 416-978-8574
Fax : 416-978-5503
E-mail: bart.testa@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
1975-1979: PhD programme in theology, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
1973-1975 : A.M. programme in Cinema Studies, New York University, New York, New York
1971-1973 : M.A. programme in theologyM.A. programme in theology, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Courses:
Cinematic City (INI428H)
Chinese Cinemas (INI390Y)
Film Genre/Filmic Narration (INI329Y)
Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema (INI322Y)
Issues in Film Authorship (INI374H)
Science Fiction and Film (INI227H)
Filmmakers: The Personal Vision (INI224Y)
Critical Writing in Film (INI384H)
European Cinemas/European Societies (INI382H)

Areas of Interest/Research:
Film theory
Narrative and genres
Avant-garde cinema
Canadian film
Semiotics and visual art
Authorship and cinema
Science fiction/horror/fantasy
Film and the urban experience

Publications:
Articles-
1995 : 'Technology's Body: Cronenberg, Genre, and the Canadian Ethos,' Fall 1995Post/Script, University of Texas, Austin
" An Axiomatic Cinema. The Films of Michael Snow", Presence/Absence: The Films of Michael Snow. Edited by Jim Shedden. Toronto

Books-
1995 : "Pier Paolo Pasolini" (Editor with Patrick Rumble), University of Toronto Press
1994 : "Richard Kerr: Overlapping Entries", Regina
1992: "Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde, Toronto
1989: "Spirit in the Landscape", Toronto

Associations:
Film Studies Association of Canada
Society for Cinema Studies

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Tomczak, Kim - Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Art (Visual Studies)

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 315
Tel : 416 946-8158
E-mail: kim.tomczak@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
1974 : Honours Diploma, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (formerly Vancouver School of Art)

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Trojanowska, Tamara - Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature

Contact Information:
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
121 St. Joseph Street, Room 423
Tel : 416-926-1300 ext. 3255
E-mail: t.trojanowska@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
1994 - Ph.D., University of Toronto.
1986-87 - Ph.D. research, Oxford University, England.
1983 - M.A., Jagiellonian University, Department of Polish Philology, Krakow, Poland.

Courses taught:
The Dynamics of Polish Literature and Culture (SLA216Y)
Polish Postwar Cinema (SLA226H)
From Eastern Europe to European Union: Polish Postwar Culture (SLA346H)
What's New? Polish Culture Today (SLA356H)
Rebels, Scoffers, and Jesters (SLA436H)
Polish Drama and Theater in Context (SLA406H)
Polish Fiction (SLA416H)
Polish School of Poetry (SLA426H)
Revolutions in the Theatre: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Postmodernism (SLA476H)
Theater and Cinema in Extremis (SLA424Y)

Areas of Interest/Research:
Polish literature of the 20th century
Problems of modernity and postmodernity
Discourse of identity
History and theory of drama and theatre
Performance studies

Publications:
Refereed articles:
2001 : "Z zyczeniami szczesliwych powrotow: emigracyjne doswiadczenie Janusza Glowackiego" in Zycie w przekladzie. Ed. Halina Stephan. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie

2002: "Polish Theater and Drama in the 1990s." In A Comparative History of the Literary Cultures in East and East Central Europe. John Benjamin Press.
"Private Rooms in Public Places." In Framing the Polish Home, ed. Bozena Shallcross. Ohio University Pres
"Individuality and Otherness: Reading Rozewicz Performing Kafka," in Examining "the Other" in Polish Culture: Studies in Language, Literature, and Cultural Mythology, ed. Elwira Grossman. Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press

Non-refereed articles:
2001 : "The Game of Love and Chance: Polish Language and Literature in Toronto", Postscriptum 2001 (Katowice, Poland 2001).
2002 : "Tadeusz Rozewicz." In Reference Guide to World Literature, St. James Press.

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Vahamaki, Borje - Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literature; Finno-Ugric Studies

Contact Information:
University College
Room #251
Phone: 416 - 978 - 8116
705 - 426 - 7290
Fax: 705 - 426 - 5690
E-mail: borje.vahamaki@utoronto.ca

Academic Background:
1969 : MA received at the Abo Academy University - Finland
1975 : Phil. Lic. received at the Abo Academy University - Finland
1984 : PHD received at the Abo Academy University - Finland

Courses:
Finish Cinema (FIN 250)
Scandinavian Cinema (FIN 260)

Areas of Cinema Specialty: National Cinemas, specifically: Finnish and Scandinavian Cinema

Areas of Interest/Research:
Aki Kaurismaki's films
Ingmar Bergman's films

Publications:
Scholarship papers: Tango and Mythology in Aki Kaurismaki's films, SASS, 2004

Why Teach Cinema?
Film is such an integral part of cultural expression with Finnish Studies and Scandinavian Studies that it needs to be taught. It complements NATIONAL CINEMAS within Cinema Studies and FINNISH LITERATURE and culture within Finnish Studies

Links:
http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/faculty/vahamaki.html
http://www.cff.ca
http://www.aspasiabooks.com

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