MA Co-Supervisor
I am the Chief Curator/Curator of Canadian Historical Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. My curatorial approach involves resituating visual and material cultures through a feminist lens and innovations in interpretive display. Areas of research include women artists, artistic groups, regional scenes, collecting histories and intersections of art and craft.
My research lies at the intersection of media studies and religious studies. Theoretically, my work draws heavily on critical media studies and several shades of material media analysis, including affect studies, sound culture studies, interface studies, and algorithmic and network culture.
Tamara de Szegheo Lang (she/her) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media. Her research takes up queer history, community-based archives, visual culture, and the affective relationships between LGBT2Q+ people and the past.
The research projects Tamara is currently involved with include: Bodies on Fire: Rekindling the Lesbian Decade in Canadian Film,1990-1999; The Witch Institute: Harnessing the Cultural Power of the Witch for Decolonial, Feminist Futures; and Under the Shadow of Empire: Minor Archives and Radical Media Distribution in the Americas.
Tamara is interested in supervising in the following areas: historical and contemporary film and media; marginalized and activist (feminist, racialized, Indigenous, queer and trans) screen cultures; archive studies, preservation, and archival films; affect theory; and curatorial studies.
I am a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and videographer, born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. I hold a Master’s degree in Film Production from York University where I developed my thesis project Hidden Gods. Besides fiction films I produced documentaries (Making Sones and Memories) and have been editor of some documentary projects. My most recent collaboration work Women Building Peace in Africa was awarded best documentary at the Silverwave Film Festival 2016. I also edited episodes of the TV series Battle Scars, about Canadian Military in times of peace and war.