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Ali  Dixon (she/her) is a Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and published writer based in Katarowki, Kingston, Ontario. She is a graduate of Queen’s University (Katarowki, Kingston, Ontario) where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Film and Media Studies. In 2023, Ali obtained her MFA from NSCAD University in Halifax. She is currently in her first year of the SCCS PhD program. 

Ali draws from such themes as the surreal, the occult, and the whimsical in her work. Her research interests include the intersections between feminist film theory, early cinema, and the Victorian Spiritualist movement as well as Victorian and early-twentieth century visual and material culture, animation, and costume design. Her current research conducted through the SCCS PhD program is focused on the spectacle of the body in the 19th to early 20th century, in particular exploring the question of how the performance of femininity was put display in Euro-Western visual and material culture of the era through such spectacles as early cinema and photography, vaudeville performance, Spiritualist demonstrations, and collections of ephemeral objects. Of particular interest in this project is the ways in which innovations in media and communication technologies of the era contributed to this culture of objectification by defining and redefining notions of spectatorship, perception, ownership, and presence.