Contributor Biographies / Biographies des contributeurs
- Contributor Biographies / Biographies des contributeurs
Stéfany Boisvert est étudiante au doctorat conjoint en communication à l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle participe actuellement à plusieurs projets de recherche portant sur la télévision et le cinéma. Sa recherche doctorale s'intéresse à la représentation des identités masculines dans les séries télévisées nord-américaines contemporaines (bourse d'études supérieures du Canada Joseph-Armand-Bombardier, CRSH). Elle a dirigé la publication d'un numéro spécial de la revue COMMposite intitulé « L'identité culturelle dans les fictions audiovisuelles contemporaines » (vol. 15, n°1, 2012) et publié dans les revues Télévision, Cinéma & Cie et Screen.
Kieron Smith is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with CREW (the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), Swansea University. He recently completed a PhD on the poetry and films of John Ormond at CREW, and his monograph, John Ormond and the BBC Wales Film Unit: Poetry, Documentary, Nation, is forthcoming from University of Wales Press.
Martin Beaulieu s'intéresse à l'histoire visuelle de la psychiatrie. Ses études en photographie et en sociologie de la médecine l'ont mené au doctorat en histoire de l'art et en histoire de la médecine (UQÀM/Université de Montréal). Sa thèse tisse une histoire de la projection thérapeutique en psychiatrie.
Ian Rae is the author of the monograph, From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press 2008), and editor of George Bowering: Bridges to Elsewhere (2010), a special issue of the journal Open Letter. He held a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his Mapping Stratford Culture project, which includes study of the Stratford International Film Festival.
Jessica Thom is a limited-term Assistant Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University and a PhD candidate in Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is a graduate of the Communication and Culture programme at Ryerson and York Universities.
Lyell Davies teaches Film and Media Studies in the English Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. A media scholar and documentary filmmaker, his research explores documentary film, media justice, and media and social movements. His documentaries have been screened at film festivals internationally and on American public television. As a participatory [End Page 175] media practitioner, Davies has been involved in participatory projects serving and led by the homeless, immigrant workers, and at-risk youth. He holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural studies from the University of Rochester.
Shana MacDonald is an Assistant Professor in the Drama and Speech Communication Department at the University of Waterloo. Her research examines the intersections between cinema, performance, screen-based installation and public art with a focus on historical and contemporary feminist experimental media. This work is closely aligned with her practice as an internationally screened filmmaker, curator and installation artist. Her recent publications include articles in Performance Research, Media Fields (forthcoming), and Feminist Media Histories (forthcoming).
Jennifer VanderBurgh is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the English department at Saint Mary's University (Halifax). Recent research and publication interests include Canadian TV metatexts, nature as nationalism in The Forest Rangers (1963–65), Toronto's strategic use as a symbolic location in CBC drama (1964–2015), and the role of domestic VHS recordings in creating records of Canadian television. She is currently completing a manuscript titled, Thinking Television Through the City: Artefacts and Footprints of TV in Toronto (1939–2009). [End Page 176]
