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Özlem Atar is the Undergraduate Program Assistant in the Department of Film and Media. She is responsible for undergraduate student advising, course enrollments, and supporting the academic needs of Film and Media students.

She holds PhDs in Communication Sciences and Cultural Studies, as well as a BA and MA in English Language Teaching. Her research focuses on narratives of irregular migration and Muslim women’s post-9/11 fictions. She is particularly interested in the intersections of literature, popular culture, border and migration studies, gendered experiences of cross-border mobility, and migrant justice activism.

When she is not working or conducting research, Özlem writes non-fiction and translates between English and Turkish.

Geoffrey Webster is a Montreal (Tiohtià:ke)-born artist and curator currently pursuing his MA in SCCS. His artistic and curatorial work critically examines how Blackness is constructed, shaped, distorted, and represented in contemporary culture, with a particular focus on the role of memes and their spread through social media and music. 

Bojana Babić is a writer, filmmaker, and PhD candidate in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Her research-creation investigates how domestic spaces become unhomely or strange, and how the figure of the stranger reveals the affective instability of home in narrative film. She holds a BA in Dramaturgy from the University of Belgrade and an MA in Film Production from Lusófona University, Edinburgh Napier University, and Tallinn University.

David Hayman is an MA student who graduated 2025 with a BAH in Film & Media. David is a student researcher in the Vulnerable Media Lab and has worked on several projects, including the Sara Gómez Project. He loves physical media, defunct devices, and rock ’n’ roll.

Ali  Dixon (she/her) is a Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and published writer based in Katarowki, Kingston, Ontario. She is a graduate of ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ (Katarowki, Kingston, Ontario) where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Film and Media Studies. In 2023, Ali obtained her MFA from NSCAD University in Halifax. She is currently in her first year of the SCCS PhD program. 

Ali draws from such themes as the surreal, the occult, and the whimsical in her work. Her research interests include the intersections between feminist film theory, early cinema, and the Victorian Spiritualist movement as well as Victorian and early-twentieth century visual and material culture, animation, and costume design. Her current research conducted through the SCCS PhD program is focused on the spectacle of the body in the 19th to early 20th century, in particular exploring the question of how the performance of femininity was put display in Euro-Western visual and material culture of the era through such spectacles as early cinema and photography, vaudeville performance, Spiritualist demonstrations, and collections of ephemeral objects. Of particular interest in this project is the ways in which innovations in media and communication technologies of the era contributed to this culture of objectification by defining and redefining notions of spectatorship, perception, ownership, and presence.