Emily Nighman

Emily Nighman is an MA student at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto. In 2022, she graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies with a Film Theory Specialization. Her research interests include critical race theory, gender, and globalization, as well as world, story, and nation-building through character and production design. In 2021, she published an article on the representation of race and gender in Disney's 1998 and 2020 Mulan in the Film Matters journal, and she is a contributing writer at the UK-based online publication, The Film Magazine. She has previously worked for the Film Music Foundation in Los Angeles, and volunteered at the Toronto International Film Festival and as a Features Programming Committee member at the Grand River Film Festival.

Selected Work

• “Orientalist Stereotypes and Transnational Feminisms in Disney’s 1998 and 2020 Mulan.” Film Matters, vol. 12, no. 3, December 2021, pp. 92-104.
• Footnotes for “Michel Legrand,” “Thomas Newman,” and “Don Black.” Film Music: In Their Own Words. Edited by Patrick Russ and Gillian B. Anderson, Oxford UP, forthcoming.

Awards

• Wilfrid Laurier University Alumni Gold Medal, 2022