Émilie Jacob

Émilie Jacob is a bilingual Toronto based critical writer and researcher exploring the intersection of the body, technology, and architecture in film and moving image art. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University in Montreal and holds a Masters of Arts from Toronto's OCAD University. She has thought core classes on art and film at the University of Toronto, where she is pursuing her PhD in Cinema Studies, as well as OCADU and the University of Toronto Scarborough. 

Her interests include continental philosophy, horror theory, art criticism, and the ways in which art and horror share aesthetic, structural, and conceptual strategies. Her dissertation explores the formation of what she terms an “architectural gaze” in the works of filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Dario Argento, key figures of post-war Italian art cinema.

Awards

• 2021 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• DVS Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Visual Culture and Communication, University of Toronto Mississauga
• 2020 Robert Lantos Cinema Studies Scholarship, University of Toronto
• 2017-2021 University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship Award
• 2017 OCAD University Gradex Winner - Canadian Medal 
• 2016-2017 OCAD University's President Scholarship