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Ylenia Olibet

Ylenia Olibet
Contact Information
Email address: 
ylenia.olibet [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

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

Group: 
Postdoctoral Fellows
Position: 
FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow
Stream: 
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
Europe
Africa
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Area(s): 
Film & Television
Critical Theory
Embodied Practice & Ethnographic Approaches
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Areas of interest: 

feminism; women's cinema; transnational film and media; film festivals; digital media

Biography: 

I am a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow currently working on women’s film festivals and the geopolitics of feminism. I graduated from La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy with a BA in Literature and Performing Arts and I completed my MA with Honors in Film Studies at the University of Roma Tre after two exchange programs at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and at Université de Montréal. My Ph.D. dissertation, completed at Concordia University, examined recent practices and developments of feminist film culture that have emerged in Quebec during the past 20 years within Francophone milieus of production and distribution from the larger framework of global media circulation. My research interests focus on feminist film theory, transnational approaches to film studies, and reception practices. I speak English, French, and Italian.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. Film and Moving Images Studies, Concordia University, 2023

Selected publications: 

Articles and Book Chapters

With Dayna McLeod and Alanna Thain. “Curation as the Cure for the Archive: Groupe Intervention Vidéo’s Vidéos de Femmes dans le Parc.” Feminist Media Histories. Forthcoming.

“Chloé Robichaud and Sophie Deraspe: Women Auteurs on the International Film Festival Circuit.” In Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century, edited by Thibaut Schilt and Michael Gott. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2024.

“Emergent Distribution Practices and Feminist Media Practices: The Case of Groupe Intervention Vidéo.” Feminist Media Studies, 23:8. 2023: 4138- 4155. (

“Féminin/Féminin: Lesbian Storytelling from Web to Television.” In Cine de mujeres y cine queer: Cartografías del deseo, edited by Uta Felten. Peter Lang Press. 2023.

with Alanna Thain. “Vidéo des Femmes dans le Parc: Feminist Rhythms and Festival Times under Covid.” In Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era, edited by Antoine Damiens and Marijke De Valck. Palgrave Macmillan. 2022.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023-2025
  • RéQEF Doctoral Excellence Fellowship, 2022
  • FMSAC Gerald Pratley Award, 2022
  • FRQSC Doctoral Scholarship, 2019-2021
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