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Anastasiia Gushchina

MA
Pronouns: she/her

Positions

PhD Candidate

Department of Communication, Media and Film

Sessional Instructor

Department of Communication, Media and Film

Graduate Assistant

University of Calgary

Contact information

Email

anastasiia.gushchina@ucalgary.ca

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Background

Educational Background

MA Art Criticism, Saint Petersburg State University, 2017

BA Film and Electronic Arts, Saint Petersburg State University, 2014

Academic CV

Biography

Anastasiia Gushchina is a PhD candidate at the department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. Her PhD project tentatively entitled "The Stuff of Reality:" Towards a Materialist Theory of Animated Documentary examines techniques and production processes of independent animated documentaries of the 1990s-2010s. She is a co-editor of the Society for Animation Studies' academic blog Animation Studies 2.0, and her own work has appeared in Animation Studies, Senses of Cinema and Fantasy/Animation. She is a winner of Maureen Furniss Award (2022) and Jonathan Kahana Graduate Writing Award (2023) for her writings in animation. Her research interests include film and animation theory, film philosophy, and documentary practices in visual arts.

Research

Areas of Research

Animation theory and practice, Film history and theory, Documentary media

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
FILM409 Special Topics in Film Studies (Animated Documentary) Fall 2020
FILM301 Special Topics in National Cinema (Russian Cinema) Winter 2024
FILM351 Canadian Film Winter 2025

Awards

  • Faculty of Graduate Studies Doctoral Scholarship , University of Calgary. 2024
  • Congress Graduate Merit Award, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 2024
  • Frances Spratt Graduate Student Fellowship, Calgary Institute for Humanities. 2023
  • Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies. 2023
  • Maureen Furniss Award, Society for Animation Studies. 2022
  • Public Humanities Fellowship, Calgary Institute for Humanities. 2022
  • Sherry Clarkson Prize, 2022
  • Graduate Student Association Graduate Representative Council Distinguished Service Award, Graduate Student Association, University of Calgary. 2022
  • International Doctoral Scholarship, 2020
  • Eyes High International Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship , University of Calgary. 2019

Publications