Kate J. Russell
First Name:
Kate J.
Last Name:
Russell
Email :
kate.russell@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Candidate
Biography :
Kate J. Russell is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, where she also completed her Masters in Cinema Studies. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation project focuses on John Waters and the comedic potential of cult spectatorship. Her interests more broadly include gross-out comedy, cult cinema, and abjection. Her essay “The Cinematic Pandemonium of William Castle and John Waters” appears in ReFocus: The Films of William Castle (University of Edinburgh Press, 2018). She currently serves as co-chair for the Toronto Film and Media Seminar.
Awards
- 2020 Judith Yaross Lee Publication Grant, American Humor Studies Association
- 2018-19 Graduate Research Grant for the Study of the United States, Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto
- 2018 Graduate Student Essay Prize, Comedy and Humor SIG, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- 2018-2021 SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship
Selected Work
Education:
MA, University of Toronto
MA, University of Glasgow
BA, University of Glasgow
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Dissertation Title:
John Waters’s Effusive Cinema: The Comedy of Cult Spectatorship
Dissertation Supervisors:
James Cahill