Teresa Faucon

Teresa Faucon is an Associate Professor and HDR researcher at Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris 3), affiliated with the IRCAV research institute. She specializes in cinema and audiovisual aesthetics, montage theory, and postcolonial film studies. Her roles include director of the Cinema and Audiovisual Master's program (2021–2023), and leadership in disability and professional training initiatives. She co-founded key research groups like Indian Cinemas (2012), CREAViS (2015), and Exotismes en champ-contrechamp (2018), focusing on decolonial cinema and exoticism analysis. Her work bridges academic research with creative projects, including the interactive Maps of Film Analysis platform.

Research interests span Indian and Southeast Asian cinemas, dance-cinema interactions, and experimental film forms. She has organized 7 international conferences and co-edited major texts like Chorégraphier le film (2019). Recent publications include studies on exoticism's sonic dimensions and non-European cinema.

Her digital platform Les cartes de l'analyse de film innovates in nonlinear film analysis through heuristic maps. She co-directs the Formes filmiques and Cinémas en champ-contrechamp book series, promoting global cinema scholarship.