Cross-Appointments
Biography
Dr. Nataleah Hunter-Young (she/they) is a writer, scholar, and independent film curator. At U of T, Dr. Hunter-Young is Assistant Professor of Black Creative Practice and Arts Management in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) with a graduate cross-appointment to the Cinema Studies Institute (UTSG). Between 2021 and 2024, Dr. Hunter-Young was International Programmer responsible for feature selections from Africa and Arab West Asia at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Having supported festival programming at TIFF since 2017, she has also programmed with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Durban International Film Festival, Reelworld Film Festival, and Toronto Outdoor Picture Show. Dr. Hunter-Young was born and raised in Toronto.
Dr. Hunter-Young's research interests span the fields of Black studies, cultural studies, and media studies, focusing particularly on Black cultural production, political economy, media industry studies, research-creation, integrated arts and creative practice. Dr. Hunter-Young’s writing has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, Criterion Channel’s The Current, Public: Art | Culture | Ideas, The Conversation, Xtra, and Canadian Art, among other publications.
Recent Publications
- “Between the Work and the World.” Museum of Dreams (2023).
- “Anything is Possible Here: A Conversation with Miryam Charles.” The Current (The Criterion Collection) (2023).
- "Transgressive Frames." Journal of Visual Culture 21.1 (2022): 111-131.
- "Poetry from Endless Futures." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 61 (2022). [Open Access]
- “Thoughts of Liberation” with Sarah Riley Case. Canadian Art, 17 June, 2020.
Recent Conversations
- ... with Professor Lauren McLeod Cramer on "Black Popular Culture" for the Black Studies Podcast (2022)
- ... with TIFF '21 filmmakers on Africa's Cinema Industries from Development to Distribution (2021)