Congratulations to Stefan Sunandan Honisch on being awarded a SSHRC RGDI grant!
UBC Theatre and Film is proud to announce that Honorary Research Associate and Sessional Lecturer Stefan Sunandan Honisch is Co-Director for the project “Facilitating Anti-Ableist Remote Music Making”, which has recently been awarded a SSHRC Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative grant!
Mila Zuo on “Vulgar Beauty” and Chinese Representation in Cinema
In honour of Asian Heritage Month, we are proud to highlight the work of Assistant Professor Mila Zuo. We spoke with Mila about her newest book release, Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium, and how it intersects with this year’s Asian Heritage Month themes.
“Embodied Cartographies”: An artist talk and screening with Elizabeth M. Webb
Join artist and filmmaker Elizabeth M. Webb for a keynote lecture on “Embodied Cartographies” and a screening of her hybrid documentary “For Paradise”!
Celebrating Black filmmakers this Black History Month and beyond
In honour of Black History Month, we are proud to highlight and celebrate some of the innovative and groundbreaking Black filmmakers being featured in our classrooms.
Congratulations to our 2021 SSHRC Grant Recipients!
Congratulations to our Cinema and Media Studies graduate students, Harrison Wade and Tamar Hanstke, on receiving the prestigious SSHRC research grants!
Get to Know our Grad Students!
We are thrilled to offer a warm welcome to UBC Theatre and Film’s incoming graduate students! We reached out to some of our incoming graduate students to learn more about them, their research and artistic foci, and what they are most looking forward to during their time at UBC.
Scholar Spotlight: Double SSHRC Grant Award Winner, Dr. Lisa Coulthard
Congratulations on Dr. Lisa Coulthard on receiving two SSHRC Insight Grants! Her research project will explore the rise of true crime media. She is also working on a second project that will compile and study hundreds of distinct post-millennial Hollywood fight scenes.
2021/22 Visiting Scholar of Centre for Cinema Studies, Dr. David Christopher
UBC Theatre and Film is proud to announce the 2021/22 Visiting Scholar of the Centre for Cinema Studies, Dr. David Christopher.
Congratulations to our Class of 2021
UBC Theatre and Film is immensely proud of our Class of 2021. Over the past few years, these graduates have developed their imaginative, technical, and intellectual skills as they prepare to embark on their careers. We cannot wait to see what they do next.
UBC Cinema and Media Studies doctoral student Gerrit Krueper talks about the Ethical Productivity of Play Time
Cinema and Media Studies doctoral student, Gerrit Krueper, will be presenting his paper at the Canadian Game Studies Association Conference 2021.