Christina Stojanova
Associate Professor
Media, Art, and Performance
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Christina Stojanova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film at the University of Regina, where she has taught since 2006. As a media historian, she focuses on cultural semiotics in Canadian multicultural cinema, the audio-visual media of Québec, Central and Eastern European media and cinema, inter-war German cinema, and on the legacies of Jean-Luc Godard. Her interdisciplinary theoretical grid includes theories of gender and genre; new media narrative theory; the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; philosophical and analytical-psychological (neo-Jungian) approaches; theories of propaganda, persuasion and globalization, as well as phenomenology of horror and mysticism. She is an internationally recognized expert consultant in academic competitions, has sat as a jury member at more than twenty international film festivals, and has curated twelve international film retrospectives across Canada and abroad.
Research Interest
Art, History, and Politics of (Post) Communist Cinemas; Text and Image in the Digital Age and the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; Jungian Analytical Psychology.
