Elizabeth Wijaya
BRIEF BIO
Elizabeth Wijaya (University of Toronto) is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Cinema in the Department of Visual Studies and Cinema Studies Institute of the University of Toronto, where she is curating an Asian short film collection for the University of Toronto (Mississauga). She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and received her B.A. in English Literature and M.A. in Literary Studies from the National University of Singapore. She is co-founder of E&W Films: ewfilms.com.sg and Associate Producer of Taste (2021). She is Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies as well as the convenor of the 2020-2021 JHI-UTM Annual Seminar Series on “Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics.”
CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS
She is working on her book manuscript, tentatively titled “Luminous Flesh: The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Contemporary Trans-Chinese Cinemas.”
In 2020, she was awarded the Connaught New Researcher Award for a project on “Luminous Waves: Transregional Visions and Networks in Contemporary Southeast Asian Independent Cinema” and the UTM Research and Scholarly Activity Fund for “Migratory Encounters between Past and Present: A Cinematic Research-Creation Collaboration.”