Arts & ScienceMA Alumni
Edem Abbeyquaye is a PhD student in the Film and Media Department. She has a BA in Communications and researched feminist documentary filmmaking in Ghana for her master鈥檚 degree. She is a journalist turned documentary filmmaker/photographer, feminist and queer activist and has almost a decade of working experience. She has worked in activist spaces providing intersectional multimedia and Communications support to activist courses and groups. Edem comes to film as an activist and is interested in ways in which marginalized populations and social justice activists in Ghana can use alternative media for (self)representation and social change. She is a cofounder of, and the Director of the African Grad Students at Queen鈥檚 Club.
Research interests: Documentary filmmaking, Alternative Media/Activist Media Making, Feminism, Queer Activism, Social Justice
Publication(s)
Abbeyquaye, Edem. 2025. 鈥淥f Paano-Sexuals and Pansexuals: Media Representation of Queer Ghanaians and Queer Self-Representation through Alternative Media.鈥 Feminist Media Studies 25 (6): 1342鈥60.
Tyler Adair was an MA student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. He previously completed an MA in Comparative Literature at Brock University where he also received his undergraduate degree in Art History and Film Studies. He is interested in film theory, modern art (especially painting), Marxism, and curatorial studies, and is currently researching the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet.
After completing their Undergraduate degree at Queen鈥檚 University with a major in Film and Media Studies and a minor in Gender Studies, Maeva Baldassarra is pursuing their MA in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Maeva鈥檚 research interests surround New Queer Cinema and those unique innovations integral to the movement鈥檚 facilitation of radical queer visibility and worldmaking.
Austin Benson did an Undergraduate degree in Film & Media and an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen's. His research interests are in experimental and narrative production as well as film theory, history and criticism. For his Film 460 creative thesis he wrote a novel which he is now redrafting and created a work based on the text. He had a short film screened at KCFF '18 and as a writer has had publications in literary journals. Currently he is intent on taking his interests further in the 2019-2020 academic session to enhance the scope and style of his experimental media works, films and writings.
Michelle Bunton is a practicing artist, curator, and roller derby player currently residing as an uninvited guest in Katarokwi-Kingston, Canada. They are a PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, with a BFA (Western University) and MA (Queen鈥檚 University). Bunton works with the Vulnerable Media Lab and Ayatana鈥檚 Biophilium: Science School for Artists, and they previously held a curatorial position at Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
Bunton considers collaboration to be a necessary condition of their curatorial, artistic and academic praxis, prioritizing kinship-building with both human and nonhuman interlocutors. Their research includes speculative design, queer coding and science fiction, working toward a critical queer-ying of the Slime Mold Algorithm (SMA).
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Student email: 11mkb7@queensu.ca
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Ying Cui completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Media at 成人大片 and is now pursuing an MA in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Her research interests focus on contemporary East Asian queer studies and diaspora media. With an interest in cultural studies, Ying explores social power structures and gender equality at a deeper level by analyzing the portrayal of film characters.
Francesca C. DiBona is an MA student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. She holds a BAH in Critical Media Studies and Urban Education from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Working in both textual and essayistic media forms, her work concerns topics of transgression theory, Orientalism, food, and fugitivity, among others.
Hilary Jay is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Prior to this, she completed her B.A. in Philosophy and Art History at McGill and her M.A. in SCCS at Queen鈥檚 in 2022. Her research is engaged with the contemporary relevance of archives, time-based media, and curation. Hilary is also currently a Research Assistant in the Vulnerable Media Lab.
William Jennings is a PhD student in the Film and Media department. He holds an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies from 成人大片, and a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria. Interests include slow cinema, continental philosophy, memory, materiality, and new media. Not to be confused with the 41st US Secretary of State.
Nicola is an MA student in the Film and Media department at Queen鈥檚. Following the completion of a BA in Film and Media, Nicola gained experience through various associate producing roles. Her current research focuses on the use and preservation of archival footage, reflecting a strong interest in film history and media preservation.
After graduating from 成人大片 with an Undergraduate degree in Film and Media, Xiao Lin has transitioned into the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies MA program. Her research interests include feminist, queer theory, and narrative production.
Lindsay K. Muir is a Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Ph.D. student within the Film and Media department at Queen鈥檚 University. She recently completed her M.A. in the same department with her thesis, Where the Willow Meets the Moon: Lessons in Settler Curation Through Indigenous Storytelling. Prior to graduate school, Lindsay earned a double major in Art History and English Literature with a minor in World Cinemas from McGill University. Her current research revolves around the representations of Celtic and Indigenous women in various media.