Claire Gray

BAH – Queen’s University (Kingston)
MA – Concordia University
PhD – University of Edinburgh

Dr. Claire Gray is an assistant professor in Cinema and Media Studies. Her research examines the role of sound and music in contemporary cinema and how they represent national and political shifts, such as the questions over Québécois identity or the Brexit movement. 

She has also previously worked on projects relating to Indigenous cinema across the Americas with Queen’s University Professor Karine Bertrand, such as the creation of a database of Indigenous women filmmakers and the remediation of the Arnait Video Productions archive.

She has previously presented her research at conferences such as the Film Studies Association of Canada, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Nouvelles Vues, [Inter]sections, and Québec Studies. As a member of the Esthétique et politique de l’image cinématographique (or EPIC) group, she is currently co-editing an anthology on diverse and everyday heroisms in contemporary cinema.