Erika Balsom - Assistant Professor, Film Studies

• Degrees: PhD (Brown), AM (Brown), MA (Goldsmiths, University of London), Hons.BA (Toronto)
• Phone: 613-520-2600 x 4010
• Email: erika_balsom@carleton.ca
• Office: 405 St. Patrick's Building

Erika Balsom joined the faculty at Carleton in 2011 after completing a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, she received her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Her research and teaching interests include artists’ cinema, experimental film, film theory, new and old media, theories of vision/visuality, semiotics, and poststructuralism.

Recent publications include “A Cinema in the Gallery, A Cinema in Ruins” in Screen (2009), “Screening Rooms: The Movie Theatre in/and the Gallery,” in Public: Art/Culture/Ideas (2010), “Cinema, Shattered” in Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India (exhibition catalogue for the Deutsche Guggenheim, 2010), and “Dial ‘M’ for Museum: The Hitchcock of Contemporary Art” in Hitchcock Annual (2011). “Brakhage’s Sour Grapes, or, Avant-Garde Cinema in the Art World” is forthcoming in issue one of Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), where Erika will be serving as guest features editor (with Lucy Reynolds) on issue three.

Current projects include the completion of a book manuscript on the moving image in art since 1990, as well as new research on the history of selling film and video as art objects and on the place of projection in film theory and experimental practice.