Susan Lord

Susan Lord is Associate Professor in Film and Media, with cross-appointments to the Departments of Art and Women 's Studies. She serves as an Adjunct Professor for Carleton University's SSAC/Film program. Her main teaching and research areas are cultural studies of media and technology, Cuban film and visual culture, and feminist film culture in Canada and internationally. In the last few years, Susan has been teaching courses on media and society; technology and the body; cinema and the city.  She also teaches and supervises graduate students in the Department of Art. She takes students to Cuba for the New Latin American Film Festival in December at the end of her Cuban Visual Culture course.

She received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University with a dissertation entitled Sublime Machines: Time, Technology and the Female Body of Ocular Modernity, which she is redrafting as a manuscript about the cinematic cultures of time. She has published on gender and technology in Public and CineAction, as well as on feminist and Canadian film culture in several recent anthologies. She is coeditor of two collections of essays: with Janine Marchessault, Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinemas (University of Toronto Press, 2007); and with Annette Burfoot, Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006).  Other editorial projects include a special section of WestCoast Line on "Global Screens"; and several special issues of PUBLIC www.publicjournal.ca, including the proceedings and projects of Digital Poetics and Politics summer institute in 2004, co-organised with Dorit Naaman and Jean Bruce; and Experimentalism, which was based on the Blowing the Trumpet to the Tulips conference I organized with Gary Kibbins in the fall of 2001.

With Janine Marchessault, she is researching a new project on translocal artist collectives and new citizenship practices. She is also completing two manuscripts: one on the Canadian filmmaker Anne Wheeler, focusing on the themes of gender, multiculturalism and indigeneity and the other on the late-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez.

Susan is also a curator of film, video and new media.  Her most recent programs include:

2006                Guest Curator, "Emotional Geographies of Feminist Media" presented at the Women's Film Festival, St. Frances Xavier, Antigonish, NS. November.

2006                Invited Curator.  Here: seven media works. Programmed for the Emotional Geographies Conference at Queen's University; screened at The Artel.

2006                Guest Curator, Cinematheque Ontario/Images Festival/Art Gallery of York University. "This Is Not the End: The Experimental Ethnography of Nicolas Guillen Landrian."

2005                Co-curator, "Animate/Recombinant: The Media Works of Frances Leeming." Queen's University, Kingston

Edited Collections

 1. (R) (with Annette Burfoot) Killing Women: Gender, Violence and Representation. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

2.   (R)(in press) (with Janine Marchessault) Fluid Screens, Expanding Cinemas. Digital Futures Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming, June 2007.

Edited Special Issues of Journals:

(co-editor with Dorit Naaman et al) "Digital Poetics and Politics" a Special Issue of Public: Art, Culture, Ideas.

(co-editor with Ken Allen and Lang Baker) Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 26: "Nature" (Winter 2003).

(co-editor with Gary Kibbins) Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 25: "Experimentalism" (Fall 2002).

(R) Global Screens: Special Section on Globalization and Cinema, West Coast Line: Writing, Images, Criticism 34, no. 1 (Fall 2000). Pages 3-60.

(co-edited with the Editorial Board) Public: Art, Culture, Ideas nos. 19 & 20: "Lexicon,"  (Spring 2000). 228 pages.

(co-edited with Janine Marchessault) Public: Art, Culture, Ideas  no. 18: "Light." (Fall 1999). 128 pages.

Chapters in Books

(R) "Between Sequence and Stream."  Fluid Screens, Expanding Cinemas. Ed. Janine Marchessault and Susan Lord.  Digital Futures Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

(R) "Killing Time: Violence and the Feminist Cinematic Imaginary." Killing Women: Gender, Violence and Representation. Ed. Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

(R)"Activating History:  Sara Diamond's Video Art." The Working-Class in Canadian Film. Edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga. University of Toronto Press, 2006.

(R) "The Canadian Gothic: Multiculturalism, Indigeneity and Gender in Canadian Cinema." Canadian Cultural Poesis. Edited by Gary Sharritt, Sheila Petty et al. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2006.

(R) "Temporality and Identity: Undertaking Cross-Cultural Analysis of Sara Gómez's Documentaries." Women Filmmakers: Refocussing. Edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis and Valerie Raoul. Vancouver: U.B.C Press, 2002.

(R)"States of Emergency in the Films of Anne Wheeler." North of Everywhere: Canadian Cinema Since 1980. Edited by William Beard and Gerald White. University of Alberta Press, 2002.

(R)"Scene of the Crime: Genealogies of Absence in the Films of Patricia Gruben." Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. Edited by K. Armatage, K. Banning, B. Longfellow, J. Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.