Andrew Gilbert has a PhD in Comparative Literature with emphases in New and Emerging Media, Cinema Studies, Japanese Cultural Texts, and Postmodern Philosophy. His research interests include: film and media theory, posthumanism, postmodernism, trauma and disaster, and contemporary English and Japanese media. He’s taught for the Humanities and Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts departments.
Andrew’s creative endeavors include film production, acting, writing, and producing. His cinematic work has received notoriety in film festivals around the world including: The International Film Festival of India; Beverly Hills International Film Festival; Mumbai International Queer Film Festival; Sacremento International Film Festival; Courts Lesbiens Internationaux, France; Homochrom Film Fest, Germany; and the Terror Film Festival. And he was a semi-finalist for the Nichol fellowship two years in a row. His recent and upcoming classes include: Film Form Narrative and Structure Analysis (FILM 2005), Introduction to Humanities (HUMN 1110) and Literature II (HUMN 1120), Avatars Contemporary Posthumanism (HUMN 3093), and Postmodernism (HUMN 3660).