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 at UB and curator of the Global Film Series in Buffalo, NY (Iran, Cuba, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan). 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 book manuscript, Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2024. She is currently working on a new book, Anonymous Cinema in the Global Age.

Her research has been supported by the 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; and 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.