Thomas Waugh
Professor, Film Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality
Director, Concordia HIV/AIDS Project
Concordia University Research Chair in Documentary and in Sexual Representation

• PhD, Columbia University, 1981

contact
email: waugh@alcor.concordia.ca
telephone: 514-848-2424 ext.4654
location: FB 315-5

Waugh has done major research on documentary cinema, including cinéma direct in Quebec, the documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens, and Indian independent documentary. He has published widely in Canada and the United States on political discourses and sexual representation in film and video, on queer film and video, and on Canadian cinema, and has undertaken inter-disciplinary research and teaching on AIDS and queer studies. Waugh's books include an anthology, Show Us Life: Towards a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary (1984), Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from their Beginnings to Stonewall (1996), The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema (2000), Outlines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall (2002), The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Sexualities, Nations, Moving Images (2006) and Gay Art: A Historic Collection (2004).

    

 research interests: political discourses and sexual representation in film and video,  Canadian cinema, AIDS and queer studies, queer film and video, documentary cinema, cinéma direct, Joris Ivens, Indian independent documentary