Christina Stojanova

Assistant Professor
ED 239.3
(306) 585-5690
Christina.Stojanova@uregina.ca

As a film historian Christina Stojanova is focussing on cultural semiotics and historical representation in Canadian multi-cultural cinema, the cinema of Québec, Central and Eastern European cinema, and inter-war German cinema. Her theoretical approaches include theories of propaganda and persuasion, gender and psychoanalysis, genre and narrative as well as comparative cultural theories. Her current projects include a book on Socialist Realism in cinema and a book on Canadian animator Caroline Leaf.  In her capacity of member of Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique, she regularly sits on juries of international film festivals. 

ACCREDITATION

• PhD (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Humanities – Concordia University) 1999
• MFA (Film and Theatre Studies, Sofia State Academy for Theatre and Film, Bulgaria) 1982
• BA (Film and Theatre Studies, Sofia State Academy for Theatre and Film, Bulgaria) 1980

WORKS OF NOTE

• Publications on Canadian and Québec cinema include a chapter on the crisis of masculinity and immigration, and a study of Deepa Mehta
• Publications on Eastern and Central European cinema include three major studies on the phenomenology of horror in Central and Eastern European cinema, and three major ones on the politics of gender and genre
• 1997-2005, Curator of retrospectives on Central and Eastern European cinema across Canada
• 2001-2005 Curator of retrospectives of Canadian cinema in Russia
• Member of the Editorial Board of Rodopi Publishing House (Amsterdam / NY) since 2003
• 1994-2001 Awarded Québec Government Doctoral and Postdoctoral grant (Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche)
• 1994–1995 Awarded Concordia University Award for Superior Academic Achievement
• 1987-89 Visiting scholar, invited by the NFB and Concordia University