Sarah Shamash

Sarah Shamash is an Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, affiliated with the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Culture and Community. Her research focuses on decolonizing film studies, Indigenous media practices, and border aesthetics in Latin American cultural production. She teaches courses such as 'The Ethics of Representation' and 'Black Cinema Auteurs,' emphasizing intersectional and decolonial methodologies.

Her work interrogates the politics of representation in cinema, particularly through analyses of Indigenous sovereignty, gendered bodies, and transnational film practices. Notable projects include collaborative installations like Telling Traces (funded by an OAC grant) and research on Brazilian Vídeo nas Aldeias productions. Shamash actively curates exhibitions and publishes in peer-reviewed journals, advocating for non-Western perspectives in film theory.