Our faculty of filmmakers, theorists, screenwriters, curators, film historians and new media artists teach courses across a wide range of disciplines and methodologies, with particular specializations in new narrative, social change media, national cinemas, documentary, and transmedia platforms. Faculty maintain active careers as thinkers and makers internationally, and are recognized as leaders in Toronto’s dynamic cultural communities, serving on the boards of such organizations as Pleasure Dome, Vtape, the Toronto Arts Council, CFMDC; founding, contributing to and editing the film journals Public and CineAction!; and premiering their films and new media works at such international festivals as TIFF, Berlin, Sundance, Hot Docs and Images.
Cinema & Media Studies Faculty
Sharon Hayashi
Associate Professor
(Crossover with Media Arts)
Brenda Longfellow
Professor
(Crossover with Media Arts)
John McCullough
Associate Professor
Ken Rogers
Associate Professor
Associate Director of the Arts, Media & Entertainment Management Program, Schulich School of Business
Temenuga Trifonova
Associate Professor
Area Head, Cinema & Media Studies
Suzie Young
Associate Professor
Michael Zryd
Associate Professor
Media Arts Faculty
Mary Bunch
Assistant Professor
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Vision, Disability and the Arts
Caitlin Fisher (on leave 2021/22)
Professor
Chair, Department of Cinema & Media Arts
Michael Darroch
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, AMPD
Patricio Dávila
Associate Professor
Area Head, Media Arts
John Greyson (on leave fall 2020)
Associate Professor
Janine Marchessault
Professor
Graduate Program Director, PhD Program Cinema & Media Studies
Tier 1 York Research Chair in Media Arts and Community Engagement
Taien Ng-Chan
Sessional Assistant Professor
Production Faculty
Tereza Barta (on leave until 2022)
Associate Professor
Manfred Becker
Assistant Professor
Graduate Program Director, MA Cinema & Media Studies and MFA Film
Barbara Evans
Associate Professor
Laurence Green
Associate Professor
Philip Hoffman (on leave Fall 2020)
Professor
Ali Kazimi (on leave Winter 2021)
Associate Professor
Screenwriting Faculty
Marie Rickard
Associate Professor
Ingrid Veninger
Assistant Professor
(Crossover with Media Arts)
Howard Wiseman
Associate Professor
Area Head, Screenwriting
Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar
Evan Cameron (Screenwriting)
Seth Feldman (Cinema & Media Studies)
Jim Fisher (Production)
Scott Forsyth (Cinema & Media Studies)
Antonin Lhotsky (Production)
Colleen Wagner (Screenwriting)
Renate Wickens (Cinema & Media Studies)
Adjunct Graduate Faculty
Barry Grant (Brock)
Mark Lipton (Guelph)
Dorit Naaman (Queen's)
Brian Price (University of Toronto)