Christina Stojanova
Research Interests
- Political, social, and aesthetic aspects of (post) communist cinemas, cinema of Québec, interwar German cinema
- Narrative, hybridity and Intermediality in the digital age
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Freudian, Lacanian, and (Neo) Jungian analytical psychology
Christina Stojanova, PhD is 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 national and international film retrospectives across Canada and abroad. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Rodopi Publishing House (Amsterdam), and the international refereed journals Studies in Eastern Europe Cinema (UK) and Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media (Romania).
Since 2005, she has contributed 20 chapters to internationally acclaimed academic publications, two of which – Wittgenstein at the Movies (2011, Lexington Press, USA) and The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard (2014, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canada) – she has co-edited. Editor of the The New Romanian Cinema (2019, Edinburgh University Press, UK), she is currently working on monograph about Canadian animator Caroline Leaf for Bloomsbury, USA.