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Q+A with Professor Lim: Queer and Asian Film Studies

Join the Art History Undergraduate Association (AHUA) for an informal Q and A with Professor Lim from the Film and Media Studies department!

Bliss Cua Lim is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Zoom Link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/97599111448

She is the author of Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic and Temporal Critique (Duke University Press, 2009; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011). She is a member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, published by Duke University Press, and serves on the Advisory Board of Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media and Society published by the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication.

Her research and teaching center on cinematic and queer temporality, Philippine cinema, postcolonial feminist film theory, and transnational horror and the fantastic. Her next book, The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (forthcoming from Duke University Press), analyzes the histories of state and private archival efforts as well as the tenacious audiovisual archival advocacy that arose in response to various archival crises.