Soon accepting applications for an MA or PhD in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies (SCCS) at Queen’s University starting Fall 2025
Applications open: 10 September 2024. Application deadline: 31 January 2025
Launched in the Fall of 2019, Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies is a collaboration between the Department of Film and Media and (the AGNES), offering a unique funded one-year MA or four-year PhD. The program’s three strongly interconnected areas of focus—studies, production, and curation—are designed to stimulate inventive dialogue in ways that ensure their respective influence, and in ways that open exciting points of access to multiple disciplinary formations. This collaborative tripartite structure is not offered in any other film, media, cinema, art or communication MA or PhD program in Ontario.
Housed in the state-of-the-art Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts and the , the Master’s and PhD in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies are unique because of their linkage to adjacent disciplines: film and media studies and, more generally, the study of screen cultures, film and media production, and curatorial studies and practice. These multidisciplinary programs provide students with a wide range of educational and professional opportunities, including academia, arts management, programming, media production (from mainstream media, to artistic and activist production), and curating.
Exhibition space is available to students at the in The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, the , the (on an application basis), and/or online, to accommodate curatorial projects. The Vulnerable Media Lab offers opportunities for restoration, remediation and curation of media collections. The is currently undergoing a transforming renovation of its space: follow the development .
The program offers seed funding for MA and PhD screen cultures curatorial projects (up to $350.00 per student). PhD students can also apply to the Dean’s project fund for up to $3000.
Program Faculty members straddle scholarly, programming, curation and creative practices. Visiting scholars, filmmakers, artists, and curators in the core and elective courses provide opportunities for practice-based, experiential, applied learning, allowing students to integrate new knowledge gained from graduate-level coursework and to implement newly acquired skills in and beyond the gallery, festival and museum.
We only accept students when we have faculty who are specialists and can supervise the project, so please make sure there is an appropriate supervisor on staff. Please review our Research Areas and How to Apply webpages for further information and, in order to ensure our program is the right fit for you, please fill out our .
- Archives, Curation, and Remediation
- Curatorial Studies
- Environmental film and media
- Experimental Media
- Feminist, Critical Race, Indigenous and LGBTQ2+ Screen Cultures
- Film, Media and Performance Studies
- Film, Media and Screen Cultures
- Historical and Contemporary Film and Media
- Moving Image Production (Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, Animation, Open Media)
- National Cinemas, Cultural Institutions and Curatorial Events
Visit our other webpages to learn more about the MA Program or the PhD Program, or plan to attend one of our virtual information session. Contact graduatefilm@queensu.ca for details.
To start the application process go to How to Apply.
Any questions? Contact Gabriel Menotti, Graduate Chair, or Helga Smallwood, Graduate Assistant.