Contributors
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Mark Kerins
For Mark Kerins’ bio please go to his Faculty page.
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Najmeh Khalili Mahani
Najmeh Khalili Mahani, PhD, is a Canadian-Iranian researcher, currently working as a Neuroscientist in the Netherlands. She graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with a Master’s degree in Film studies in 2008. Her cinema writings focus on the historical or sociological contexts that inform the narrative of films, with particular attention to technological and formal elements that influence the film’s phenomenology.
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Nojang Khatami
Nojang Khatami is a PhD student in political science at the University of British Columbia with interests in cosmopolitanism and social psychology. His past work has focused largely on Iranian political culture, including co-authored articles in Constellations, openDemocracy and The Progressive. In 2014, he was awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, which supports his research. His recent work explores the possibilities for cosmopolitan understanding across cultures through empathy and perspective-taking. He is an avid reader and writer of fiction, and firmly believes that through sharing distinct experiences, people in those societies can go beyond merely coexisting and find ways to thrive together
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Ouennessa Khiari
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Khatereh Khodaei
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Guan-Soon Khoo
Guan-Soon teaches communication studies and film at Roanoke College in Virginia, USA. He is an enthusiast of the close-up and the auteurist cinema of David Lynch, Lee Chang-dong, and Wong Kar-wai. His current research focuses on the social and psychological effects of film drama and self-reflection.
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Cameron Kit
Cameron Kit is an award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in film and storytelling. She has directed over 30 films, including the feature documentary - “African Woman’s Voice”. She is passionate about science fiction and how future technology will shape our world. Instagram.
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Jeffery Klassen
Jeff Klassen is a multi-faceted writer, artist, and student of media studies currently residing in Montreal, Canada.
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Raphael Koenig
After completing an undergraduate and M.A. degree in French and Comparative Literature at the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris, Raphael Koenig is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, studying Comparative Literature and Film and Visual Studies. He is a regular contributor to the Paris-based review Gravitations. He is currently working on his dissertation, on the topic of ‘art and madness’. His research interests include Surrealism, Dada, Weimar cinema, Chinese and Japanese cinema, translation theory, immigration theory, and outsider art.
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Anton M. Kolev
Anton M. Kolev is a Bulgarian philosopher. He is the founding editor of adopto.net, a Bulgarian-language web portal specializing in literary & film theory and social critique and a member of Collective for Social Interventions, Sofia — an engaged research NGO and publishing house.
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Prakash Kona
Prakash Kona teaches in the Department of English Literature at The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad. He completed his doctorate at the University of Mississippi, MS in 1997. His thesis is a comparative analysis of Derrida, Chomsky and Wittgenstein. His areas of interest include: Anarchism, Avant-garde poetry, Third World Resistance Writing, Autobiography, Peasant cultures, Anti-state politics, Debates on violence and extremism, Working-class and marginalized subcultures, Revolutionary art forms, and Mass-centered movements.
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Ben Kooyman
Ben Kooyman graduated from Flinders University, South Australia in 2010 with a PhD in English: his dissertation examined film adaptations of Shakespeare. He currently works at the University of South Australia as a Language and Learning Adviser. His first book,Directorial Self-Fashioning in American Horror Cinema: George A. Romero, Wes Craven, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth and the Masters of Horror, was published in early 2014. This book examines the ways in which horror filmmakers in the new millennium have utilised the various media outlets at their disposal to cultivate and disseminate their public personas.
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Becky Korman
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Katerina Korola
Katerina Korola is a senior undergraduate student pursuing a joint Major in Art History and Film Studies. Her research interests include travel narratives, spatial theory and architecture, and new media practices, especially relating to indigenous art. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, where she has served as an executive for the past two years, and in her free time enjoys indulging in creative writing.
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Nathan Kosik-Desmond
Nathan Kosik-Desmond is an attorney in Boston, mainly focused on transactional real estate and corporate matters. Nathan received a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where he was able to merge his passion for film by studying entertainment law, as well as a BA from Concordia University, where he had the pleasure of taking various Film Studies classes.
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George Kowalik
George Kowalik has a PhD on contemporary fiction from King’s College London, where he also taught American literature for three years. He is both a short fiction and culture writer, and was shortlisted for Ouen Press’ 2019 Short Story Competition. His work can be found at the link above.
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Emma Kredl
Emma Kredl is an MA student in the film studies department at Concordia University. Kredl’s research interests are primarily based in genre cinema with a focus on horror and melodrama.
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Vani Krishnan
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Serdar Küçük
Serdar Küçük is an assistant professor of English at Yeditepe University, Istanbul.
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Martin Kudlac
Martin Kudlac is a freelance film journalist covering the audiovisual industry as a correspondent for Cineuropa and writing about world cinema as a contributing writer for ScreenAnarchy. His writings have appeared across a variety of international outlets including MUBI´s Notebook, Film International, China Film Insider, Filmatique, De Filmkrant, and Senses of Cinema among others. He led cinema-related courses as a lecturer at a university and served as a member of the editorial board of the scholarly peer-reviewed journal Art Communication & Popculture. He is a co-author of the book Images of Hero in the Cultural Memory (University of Constantine the Philosopher, 2017) and a contributing author of Body and Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments (Springer, 2019).
