About
Committee
Dr. Ignacio Adriasola, Dr. Erin Silver
Research Areas
Recent Awards & Merits
2020 – Graduate Student Research Award, Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia.
2019 – Italian Studies Master Essay Prize, Department of Italian Studies, The University of Toronto.
2019-2020 – MA Art History Student Representative, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, The University of British Columbia.
2019 – Ian Wallace Award in Art History, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, The University of British Columbia.
2019 – Graduate Student Travel Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies, The University of British Columbia.
2018 – Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
2018 – Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, The University of British Columbia.
2017-2020 – University Art Committee Student Representative, The University of British Columbia.
2016 – Patsy and David Heffel Award in Art History, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, The University of British Columbia.
2015-2016 – Undergraduate Art History Student Representative, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, The University of British Columbia.
Publications
Selected Publications
2019 – “Monster in the House: The Uncanny Acuity of Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018).” SAD Magazine 27, (2019): 18-19.
2018 – “Subversive Subjectivities: Intersecting Reference and Experience.” UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History 9, (2018): 56-63.
2017 – “Shining Light on Theft: The Duality of Gold in Joy Lynn Davis’ Remembering the Lost.” UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History 8, (2017): 18-30.
Selected Talks & Conferences
2020 – “Fracture/Refraction: Deleuze, Queer Time, and the Gothic.” The Carleton University Graduate Art History Conference, March 14, 2020.
2020 – “Unhomely Houses: Queering Space in Contemporary Gothic Film.” The Ontario College of Art and Design Graduate Conference, March 13, 2020.
2020 – “The Sub(urban)altern: Spatial and Temporal Refractions of Normativity in Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018).” The University of British Columbia Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, February 7, 2020.
2020 – “The Sub(urban)altern: Spatial Articulations and Subversions of Normativity in James Wan’s Insidious (2010).” 23rd Annual University of Victoria Art History and Visual Studies Graduate Conference, January 25, 2020.
2019 – Co-Chair – “Violentia: Representing Bodies and Violence.” 42nd Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium, March 8, 2019.
2019 – “Naturalized Commodification: Biophilia, Open Space, and Consumption in Outdoor Mall Architectures.” McGill University Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Symposium, February 9, 2019.
2019 – “Voice Activated Home Automation and the Shifting Landscape of the Domestic Sphere.” 22nd Annual University of Victoria Art History and Visual Studies Graduate Conference, January 26, 2019.
2017 – “Lurking Existential Fear: Space and the Human Condition in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows (2014).” UBC Undergrad
Additional Description
UBC
2020 – Teaching Assistant, “FIST 220: Hollywood Cinema 1930-1960,” Department of Theatre and Film, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
2019 – Teaching Assistant, “FIST 100: Introduction to Film Studies,” Department of Theatre and Film, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.