Susan Lord

Susan Lord is a Full Professor in Film and Media at Queen's University, serving as Acting Department Head and Director of the Vulnerable Media Lab. She holds a PhD from York University and specializes in cinema studies, media archiving, and gendered spatial analysis. Her research explores Cuban visual culture, postcolonial archives, and media collectives' social ecologies.

• Education: PhD, York University
• Affiliations: Vulnerable Media Lab, Public Access Collective (PUBLIC journal)

Her work bridges academic research with curatorial practice, focusing on marginalized media archives through projects like Archive/CounterArchive and restoration of Sara Gómez's documentaries. Current initiatives include 'Under the Shadow of Empire,' examining minor archives and radical distribution networks.

She has supervised MA and PhD students while leading interdisciplinary research teams. The Vulnerable Media Lab emphasizes preservation of media created by women, Indigenous peoples, and LGBTQ2+ producers.