Avneet Sharma

Avneet Sharma

First Name: 
Avneet
Last Name: 
Sharma
Title: 
PhD Student
Biography : 

Avneet Sharma is a PhD student at the Cinema Studies Institute and a collaborative specialist at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. His research interests include film philosophy, queer theory, television studies, and European cinemas. He also co-runs a working group on queer and trans negativity at the Jackman Humanities Institute. Avneet holds an MA in English Literature from McGill University, where he wrote a thesis on Alan Hollinghurst’s sexual politics, and a BA in Cinema Studies and English from the University of Toronto. For ASAP Review, he edited an essay collection on social media’s role in the transformation of reality television. In addition to his scholarly work, he is a pre-screener for the Planet in Focus environmental film festival.

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Awards

  • David Rayside Graduate Students Award, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (2025)
  • Hugh MacLennan Fellowship in English, McGill University (2022)
  • SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (2021)
  • Provost Delworth Graduation Scholarship, Trinity College, University of Toronto (2021)
  • Edward Franklin Borbridge Award, Trinity College, University of Toronto (2020)
  • Marian A. Robertson Scholarship, Trinity College, University of Toronto (2019)
Education: 
MA, McGill University
BA, University of Toronto

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