Carmen Victor (she/her) has a PhD in Communication and Culture from York and Toronto Metropolitan Universities. Victor’s writing on contested landscapes, installation art, cinemas of the circumpolar North, and time-based and experimental film & media has appeared in several journals and edited volumes. Victor teaches at universities in and around the Greater Toronto Area, in Canada, currently at York University and OCAD University. From 2020-2023 Victor held a MITACS Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and was Managing Editor of the long-standing journal PUBLIC: Art / Culture / Ideas. Victor currently programs film and film-related discourse internationally in the MENA region for non-profit cultural organizations.