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Antoine DAMIENS is a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, affiliated with the Department of English and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. His research focuses on academic labor, archival theory, queer and feminist film theory, and the role of research-curation in shaping scholarly knowledge. He holds a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University (2018), where he was honored as the Faculty of Fine Arts valedictorian. His work interrogates the political and disciplinary assumptions underlying festival studies, emphasizing the agency of queer organizers and scholars in cultural preservation.
Education:
- PhD, Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University (2018)
- MA, Communication/Visual Studies, Institut d’Études Politiques de Lyon, France (2013)
Research interests include the intersection of queer feminism with archival practices, the ephemeral nature of LGBTQ cultural institutions, and the evolution of academic labor. His monograph "LGBTQ Film Festivals: Queering Festival Studies, Curating Queerness" (2020, Amsterdam University Press) challenges traditional festival historiography by centering marginalized voices and curatorial labor.
Current projects explore how feminist and queer scholars from the 1970s onward used film festivals and archives to redefine academic frameworks. Awards include the 2018 valedictorian distinction at Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
