Trevor Ponech
Group:
Faculty Members
Position:
Associate Professor
Stream:
Literature
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area:
Canada
Specialization by time period:
20th-Century
Area(s):
Aesthetics
Art
Fiction
Film & Television
Philosophical Approaches
Areas of interest:
Philosophy of cinema; philosophy of literature; theories of culture and society.
Current research:
Kitchen Stories (forthcoming, University of Washington Press), a monograph on Bent Hamer's movie, Kitchen Stories.
Degree(s):
Ph.D. (Northwestern)
B.A. (McGill)
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)