Trevor Ponech

 Trevor Ponech
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext. 09846
Email address: 
trevor.ponech [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor
Stream: 
Literature
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
Area(s): 
Art
Fiction
Film & Television
Aesthetics
Philosophical Approaches
Areas of interest: 

Philosophy of cinema; philosophy of literature; theories of culture and society.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (Northwestern)
B.A. (McGill)

Current research: 

Kitchen Stories (forthcoming, University of Washington Press), a monograph on Bent Hamer's movie, Kitchen Stories.

Selected publications: 

"The Definition of 'Cinema'," in Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga, eds., Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (New York: Routledge, 2008). 

"Cinema Again: A Reply to Jonathan Walley," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (2007): 12-16. 

"External Realism About Cinematic Motion," British Journal of Aesthetics 46 (2006): 349-68. 

"The Substance of Cinema," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (2006): 187-98. 

Taught previously at: 

Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

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