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Cinema Studies Institute

Angelica Fenner

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Berlin School Films
  • Buddhism and film
  • Cultural production by/about Afro-Germans
  • European cinemas
  • First person and autobiographical documentary
  • German film history
  • Posthumanism and Animal Studies
  • Race and ethnicity in German visual media
  • Women's film authorship

Office: 416-978-7382
Languages: German
Website
Email: angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Charlie Keil

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Award cycle trends
  • Censorship and controversy
  • Classical Hollywood cinema and the star system
  • Contemporary Hollywood
  • Cultural trends
  • Directors and authorship
  • Documentary
  • Early cinema
  • Film and history

Office: 416-978-2510
Mobile: 647-236-0667
Website
Email: charlie.keil@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lauren McLeod Cramer

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Black popular culture (tv, film, digital culture/trends, music video)

Office: N/A
Website
Email: lauren.cramer@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Meghan Sutherland

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • History & Theory of Film
  • Politics of Popular Entertainment (History & Theory)
  • Race & Gender in Visual Culture
  • Television & New Media
  • Theories of Liberalism & Populism
  • Theory & Philosophy of Representation (Politics, Art & Entertainment)

Office: 416-978-2878
Languages: Italian
Email: meghan.sutherland@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email, Text

Nicholas Sammond

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American studies
  • Animation
  • Children and movies
  • Early animation
  • Ethnicity and media
  • Gender and sexuality in vernacular media
  • Media and social/cultural practice
  • Media effects
  • Race

Office: 416-978-7271
Website
Email: nic.sammond@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shyon Baumann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aesthetic evaluation
  • Cultural classification
  • Cultural consumption
  • Food studies
  • Media studies
  • Symbolic boundaries

Office: N/A
Website
Email: shyon.baumann@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online