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Dr. Rosanna Maule is associate professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema, Concordia University, Montréal. She joined Concordia University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. She holds a PhD (2000) in Communications, with concentration in Film Studies, from the University of Iowa, USA.
Her research interests include film history and historiography, with an emphasis on French, Italian, and Spanish cinemas, classical Hollywood cinema, and early cinema; contemporary film theory, including feminist theory and criticism, issues in authorial film practices, national cinemas, and postmodernism.
Dr. Maule’s is the author of Beyond Auteurism: New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy, and Spain since the 1980s (Forthcoming, Intellect Press, 2007) and the co-editor of In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema (Forthcoming, Peter Lang, 2007), an anthology of essays on Duras’s filmic work, to which she contributes with single-authored Introduction. She has also published two book chapters and several articles in peer-reviewed journals, and edited three special issues (for two of which she also contributed with single-authored articles) of prestigious film journals, on topics relative to her areas of expertise. She has participated in several conferences, also as invited speaker.
Dr. Maule is a member of two research teams: the Groupe de Recherche sur l’avènement and La formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique (GRAFICS), based at the Université de Montréal and directed by André Gaudreault; and l’Équipe de recherche sur l’histoire et l’épistémologie des études cinématographiques, based at Concordia University and directed by the Cinema Research Chair Martin Lefebvre (as a collaborator).
She is on the Board of Directors of Women and the Silent Screen International Association.
She co-organized with Catherine Russell the third edition of the "Women and the Silent Screen (WSSC)" conference, held in Montreal in 2004, and was on the board of directors of the fourth edition, which took place in Guadalajara, Mexico in June 2006.
She is the recipient of several research grants. In 2006, she received a SSHRC grant for a research project on the use of the figure in contemporary authorial cinema. The results of this new project will be published in a single-authored book titled The figural, new threshold of meaning? Alternative modes of cinematic expression in contemporary European cinema.
Professional memberships
Society of Cinema and Media Studies, DOMITOR, Federal Association of Canadian Cinema, Women Film Pioneers Project (now Women and the Silent Screen International Association)
Editorial work
Editorial Board of CiNéMAS, Refereed Film Journal (2003 - )
Colloquia Organized
Other Contributions to Scholarship & Graduate studies
University
Faculty
Department
Profile
Dr. Rosanna Maule is associate professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema, Concordia University, Montréal. She joined Concordia University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. She holds a PhD (2000) in Communications, with concentration in Film Studies, from the University of Iowa, USA.
Her research interests include film history and historiography, with an emphasis on French, Italian, and Spanish cinemas, classical Hollywood cinema, and early cinema; contemporary film theory, including feminist theory and criticism, issues in authorial film practices, national cinemas, and postmodernism.
Dr. Maule’s is the author of Beyond Auteurism: New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy, and Spain since the 1980s (Forthcoming, Intellect Press, 2007) and the co-editor of In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema (Forthcoming, Peter Lang, 2007), an anthology of essays on Duras’s filmic work, to which she contributes with single-authored Introduction. She has also published two book chapters and several articles in peer-reviewed journals, and edited three special issues (for two of which she also contributed with single-authored articles) of prestigious film journals, on topics relative to her areas of expertise. She has participated in several conferences, also as invited speaker.
Dr. Maule is a member of two research teams: the Groupe de Recherche sur l’avènement and La formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique (GRAFICS), based at the Université de Montréal and directed by André Gaudreault; and l’Équipe de recherche sur l’histoire et l’épistémologie des études cinématographiques, based at Concordia University and directed by the Cinema Research Chair Martin Lefebvre (as a collaborator).
She is on the Board of Directors of Women and the Silent Screen International Association.
She co-organized with Catherine Russell the third edition of the "Women and the Silent Screen (WSSC)" conference, held in Montreal in 2004, and was on the board of directors of the fourth edition, which took place in Guadalajara, Mexico in June 2006.
She is the recipient of several research grants. In 2006, she received a SSHRC grant for a research project on the use of the figure in contemporary authorial cinema. The results of this new project will be published in a single-authored book titled The figural, new threshold of meaning? Alternative modes of cinematic expression in contemporary European cinema.
Education
- PhD. Film Studies, University of Iowa (USA), 2000
- M.A Film Studies, University of Iowa (USA), 1993
- B.A Philosophy & Italian Literature, University of Padua (Italy), 1987
Employment
- June 2006 – Present, Associate Professor, Film Studies, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Canada.
- December 2000 – May 2006, Assistant Professor, Film Studies, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Canada.
- 1998 -1999, Teaching Assistant, Film Studies, Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA.
- August 1999 - December 2000, Invited Assistant Professor, Film Studies, Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA.
- August 1998 - June 1999, Teaching Assistant, Film Studies, Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA.
- September 1995 – July 1998, Teacher, Italian Literature and World History, High School Pasini, Schio (Vicenza), Italy.
- August 1991 – July 1995, Teaching Assistant, Film Studies and Italian Language, University of Iowa, USA.
Academic Honours
- 1993, Winner of a national competition to obtain a Teaching Certificate for teaching in Italian Secondary Schools.
- 1990 - 1991, Nine-months Fulbright Scholarship to study in the USA, exceptionally extended for 3 months for excellence in academic performance
- 1985 – 1986, One-year exchange bursary, University of Padua and University of California
Scholarly and Professional Activities
Professional memberships
Society of Cinema and Media Studies, DOMITOR, Federal Association of Canadian Cinema, Women Film Pioneers Project (now Women and the Silent Screen International Association)
Editorial work
Editorial Board of CiNéMAS, Refereed Film Journal (2003 - )
Colloquia Organized
Other Contributions to Scholarship & Graduate studies
- PhD thesis examinations: Université Paris I (1)
- MA thesis examinations: Concordia University (6)
Significant University Administrative Duties
University
- Graduate Curriculum (2002-2004)
- School of Graduate Studies Council (June 2003 - June 2004)
Faculty
- Canadian Research Chair Search (2003 and 2004)
- Fine Arts Council (June 2003 - June 2004)
Department
- Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions (Film Studies, 2001 - 2003)
- Undergraduate and Graduate students advising (2001 - 2005)
- Undergraduate Admissions (Film Production) (2002)
- ARTH/FMST Major: Development Committee (2002)
- Graduate Area Head (2003)
- Graduate Admissions (Film Studies, 2003 - 2005)
- Graduate Programme Director (April 1, 2003 - June 1, 2004)