Russell J a Kilbourn

Russell J. A. Kilbourn is Professor and Chair of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He publishes on memory, film, comparative studies, critical posthumanism, and postsecular cinema. His books include The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (2020), W.G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator (2018), The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film (co-edited with Eleanor Ty; 2013), and Cinema, Memory, Modernity:...See more

Russell J. A. Kilbourn is Professor and Chair of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He publishes on memory, film, comparative studies, critical posthumanism, and postsecular cinema. His books include The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (2020), W.G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator (2018), The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film (co-edited with Eleanor Ty; 2013), and Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema (2010). Dr. Kilbourn is one of the founders of the Posthumanism Research Network (based at Brock University and Wilfrid Laurier), an associate editor at Interconnections: The Journal of Posthumanism , and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies . His current project is on posthuman memory. See less