Tanya Shilina-Conte

Tanya Shilina-Conte is Assistant Professor of Global Film Studies in the Department of English, University at Buffalo. She is the founder of the Center for Global Media and curator of the Global Film Series (Iran, Cuba, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan). Her research interests and areas of expertise include film theory and film-philosophy, theories of affect and non-representation, Deleuze and Guattari studies, feminist theory, global film, minoritarian cinema, and cinemas of the Middle East, especially Iranian and Palestinian cinema.

Her book, Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024. She is currently at work on a new book, Anonymous Cinema in the Global Age, which will feature chapters on Iranian and Syrian anonymous filmmakers as well as a chapter on the Arab Spring revolutions and anonymous mobile cinema. Her articles and book chapters have appeared in Screen, Film-Philosophy, Frames Cinema Journal, Word & Image, Studia Phænomenologica, Iran Namag, Leitura: Teoria & Prática, Studia Linguistica, Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film, and elsewhere.

Her work has been supported by the UB Faculty Grant for Global and International Research; UB Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship; UB Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy Research Grant; Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Program Award, SUNY; Centro Congressi Stefano Franscini Grant, Switzerland; Lisbon Consortium Grant, Catholic University of Portugal; Princeton-Weimar Grant, International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universität, Germany; Philipps University Grant, Germany; the Canadian-American Studies Grant; George Soros Open World Society Grant; American Councils for International Education Grant; and National Council for Economic Education Grant, among others.

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