Zoë Druick

Areas of interest

Media studies, gender studies, and cultural theory.

Education

• PhD, Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought, York University

Biography

Zoë Druick is a Professor in the School of Communication. Her primary areas of teaching and research are media studies, gender studies and cultural theory. Her research considers histories, theories and trajectories of documentary and reality-based media with an emphasis on their intersection with biopolitical projects. Her most recent books are "The Grierson Effect: Tracing Documentary's International Movement" (BFI 2014, with Deane Williams) and "Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema and New Screen Histories in Canada" (McGill-Queen's University Press 2014, with Gerda Cammaer). Other publications include "Allan King's A Married Couple" (UTP 2010), "Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television" (WLU Press, 2008) and "Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board" (McGill-Queen's, 2007). Her articles have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Camera Obscura, Screen, Canadian Journal of Communication, International Journal of Communication, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She has co-edited special issues of the Canadian Journal of Communication and the European Journal of Cultural Studies. She is currently working on a monograph on the history of operational media.