Kass Banning

Kass Banning is an Associate Professor at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto. Her research interrogates aesthetics, screen alterity, and minor cinema movements across diasporic, Indigenous, and queer contexts. She contributes to critical discourses on cultural translation, transnational analytics, and affect theory.

• Teaching areas: Critical race theory, migratory aesthetics, documentary media, and moving image installations
• Co-founded journals: CineAction, Borderlines
• Current projects: Co-leading the Image/Movement/Sound quadrant for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Aesthetic Education: A South-North Dialogue

Her scholarship spans Canadian women's cinema, Black British cinema, and collaborations with artists like John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien. She serves on the executive of the Film Studies Association of Canada.