Expert in: Ecocinema
MONNET, Rodica-Livia
Professeure titulaire
- East Asian cultures
- Japan
- China
- Taiwan, Province of China
- South Korea
- South Asian Cultures
- India
- Central AsianCultures
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- Études féministes
- Queer Studies
- Nouveaux matérialismes
- Literature
- Visual arts
- Film Making
- Media arts
- Popular culture
- Humanités environnementales
- Theory and practices of Cinema
- Ecocinema
- Nuclear histories
- Nuclear cultures
Livia Monnet earned her PhD from the University of Vienna, in Austria. She taught at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany, and at the University of Minnesota, in the USA, before coming to the Université de Montréal. Her current research focuses on experimental cinema in Japan, body issues in video installations and 21st-century media arts, and on artistic and cultural practices of ecological movements in the Asia-Pacific area. She teaches courses on a wide variety of subjects, including independent animation cinema in the 2000s, feminism in cinema and the visual arts, classical Japanese theatre, uchronia in Japanese literature and cinema, and theory and esthetics in comic strips and their film adaptations. She has received academic awards from the Canon Foundation and the German Society for East Asian studies, as well as many SSHRC research grants.