SCHOLARSHIP
Presenting on Jennifer's Body (2009) at the University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute's Annual Graduate Conference, January 2019
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Kanika Lawton is a film scholar with a focus on new media, digital and video art, and contemporary cinema, specifically media objects that have received little to no prior scholarly attention.
She holds an MA from the University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute, where her thesis "Bodies as Mirrors: Figuring Annihilation in the Female Double" examines the relationship between self-image and self-harm in gendered depictions of doppelgängers in psychological horror films. In 2017, she received a BA in Psychology with a Minor in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia. Informed by her background in psychology and her work in critical theory and queer theory, her research contends with how surveillant and state apparatus shape our shifting understanding of gender, race, bodies, and the self. |
Kanika has presented her research at universities and conferences across Canada and the United States, most notably at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)'s annual conference, the University of Toronto, Columbia University, Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference, Northwestern University, and the University of Southern California. She has served as an editor for the UBC Undergraduate Film Student Association and The Neutral: The University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Journal.
Fields: Cinema and media studies
Areas of Interest: Surveillance studies, critical theory, queer theory, intermediality, race as/and technology, visuality and negation
Awards: 2018-2019 University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Fellowship; 2018 Faculty of Arts and Science Program-Level Fellowship
Associations: Films Studies Association of Canada; Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Education: University of Toronto (MA, Cinema Studies); University of British Columbia (BA, Psychology and Film Studies)
Fields: Cinema and media studies
Areas of Interest: Surveillance studies, critical theory, queer theory, intermediality, race as/and technology, visuality and negation
Awards: 2018-2019 University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Fellowship; 2018 Faculty of Arts and Science Program-Level Fellowship
Associations: Films Studies Association of Canada; Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Education: University of Toronto (MA, Cinema Studies); University of British Columbia (BA, Psychology and Film Studies)
