Name
Temenuga Trifonova
Position and Affiliated Institution
Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
York University (Toronto)
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
Academic Degrees and Educational Background:
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo
M.F.A., University of California, San Diego
B.A., American University in Bulgaria
2008- present, York University, Department of Cinema and Media Arts, Associate Professor
2005-2008 University of New Brunswick, Assistant Professor, Director of the Film Program,
2004-2005 University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Film and Digital Media, Lecturer
Research Topic
Europe at the Crossroads: Cinematic Takes
Fields of Research Interests
Film Theory, European Cinema, Philosophy of Film, Film and Photography, Cinema of Precarity, Film Criticism, Film Adaptations and Remakes, Film and Psychopathology, Screenwriting
Academic Publications
- Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (Routledge, 2017)
- Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology (Amsterdam UP, 2014)
- European Film Theory (Routledge, 2008)
- The Image in French Philosophy (Rodopi, 2007)
- “Neurocinematics: Reading the Brain/Film through the Film/Brain,” in Cinema & Cie, vol. XIV, No.22/23, Spring/Fall 2014
Affiliated Academic Organizations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Awards
2018-2019
Le Studium Marie Skłodowska fellowship, Université François-Rabelais Tours, France
2017
NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, Visiting Scholar
2015
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Scholar, July
Writer in Residence, Istanbul, June
2013
Brown Foundation Fellow at the Dora Maar House, France, July 1-31, 2013
Fondation des Treilles Screenwriting Residency, France, June 2013
Artist in Residence, Pushkinskaya 10 Art Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2013
2012
Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Cinema, University of Bologna, Spring 2012
Tourist (2017, 100 min), Mostra del Cinema di Taranto, Italy May 2018, Winner Best Feature
Man of Glass (2012, 60 min), winner of the Cinematic Vision Award at the 2013 Amsterdam Film Festival
Other Interests
Creative Writing (Fiction), Photography
