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Heather is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial studies program. Her research focuses on found footage horror films, including the cultural history of the genre and themes of surveillance within it. She is also interested in adaptation theory, screenlife horror films, and the interplay between reality and image.

Anne Runciman is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program at �鶹��վ. After finishing her BA in Political Studies, Anne went on to the Master’s program at Queen’s Film & Media where she studied drive-in movie theatres. As part of her Master’s thesis, she produced a podcast series, Let’s All Go to the Drive-In, which incorporated elements of archive media, sound effects and music to bring the listener into the world of the drive-in. Now in her PhD, Anne is studying museum exhibition design in dark tourism sites. She’s looking at how these grim tourist attractions use interior design, lighting, archive media, sound effects and music to shape the emotional experience of the visitor.

Emily Sanders is a first (ish) year PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Her research focuses primarily on Canadian film, and investigates the abject within the genre. Other research interests include rural cinemas in Canada; affect theory; aesthetics in film; horror and the monstrous; and film-philosophy. Her (current) favourite film is Morvern Callar by Lynne Ramsay.

Shashank Satish is an Experimental Media Artist-Curator who works at the intersection of art, science, technology and academia. Satish holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture, a Master’s in Experimental Media Art, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics. He is the Principal Investigator of the Experiential Cognition Laboratory (XPC Lab, est. 2017), an independent initiative at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and art. The lab develops art–science projects and hosts Anubhava, a podcast exploring the role of experience in understanding consciousness through cross-disciplinary dialogue.

He has taught Art and Architecture at the undergraduate level and published research at their intersection. As founder of Holy Cow! Studio (Bangalore), he produces graphic design, art, and curatorial projects, with exhibitions of his new media art and curation showcased both in India and internationally.

Shashank's research at the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program focuses on the digitization of cultural heritage and experimental museology through critical curatorial frameworks. 

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After graduating from Queen’s University with a Major in Sociology and a Minor in Film, Daniel transitioned to a Masters program in Cultural Studies, where he wrote his thesis “Hays Gone By: The Proto-Feminism of Pre-Code Hollywood and the Films of Mae West”. As an aspiring PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, Daniel is continuing his studies of transgression within Hollywood cinema, specifically as it relates to the Hollywood Production Code. Outside of the classroom, Daniel also makes video essays analyzing art-house cinema and popular film on YouTube under the name Eyebrow Cinema.

Jessica Turner is a PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. As a curator, her research broadly encompasses the intersection of art and climate. Climate communication, relational aesthetics, audience evaluation, and place-based research all inform her work. Jessica is currently a Research Assistant in the Art and Media Lab.

Ariel is a PhD student in SCCS. She received a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology from Brigham Young University, and a MA in English: Film Studies from National University. Research interests include intersectional feminism related to post-war trauma, Easternism, diaspora communities, and identity, in film, television, and video games.

Xunan Wang is an independent filmmaker specialising in documentary and cinematic virtual reality. He explores the shifting boundaries between fiction and reality, challenging conventional narratives while engaging with the limits of the screen. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Master’s degree from the University of Hong Kong.

Sarah is a PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation takes up the figure of the serial killer as a discursive construction key to establishing and securing interconnected categories of criminality, deviance, and identity in the popular imagination throughout the 20th century. Her other research interests include monstrosity, true crime, and horror media. 

I'm only really curious about why we live: what kinds of faith subtends the mechanics of our day-to-day survival; the manner & the style through which we express our vitality. In the language of the University, I translate this curiosity into such terms as "experiential performance-based research": for my PhD I want to gather a collective of multimodal artists who are interested in spirituality and mystical experience to work at the limits of their practices, and to dissolve their limits into the mutation-structure of the group. Call it a cult but with no centre, no dogma, no direction.