Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA – 2011-present
  • Chancellor’s Fellowship
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Fellowship

Master of Arts in Film Studies
University of British Columbia – Vancouver, BC – 2006-2009

  • Awarded the level of Distinction on thesis entitled “The Museum: Textworks, Cultural Economy, and Polytextual Dispersion” [abstract and pdf].
  • Interdisciplinary combination of media studies, political economy and critical theory applied to the film, television, popular music, and video gaming industries.
  • Editor-in-Chief of Cinephile, the University of British Columbia’s Film Journal.
  • Highest-rated Teaching Assistant in department, chosen by TAG (Teaching & Academic Growth) to lead workshops for incoming teaching assistants.

Bachelor of Arts, Honours double major in Media, Information and Technoculture and Film Studies
University of Western Ontario – London, ON – 2001-2006

  • Completed undergraduate thesis entitled “Steven Soderbergh, Section Eight Ltd., and the Sellebrity Auteur: Commercial Authorship in Contemporary Hollywood.”
  • Enrolled in Scholar’s Electives.
  • Dean’s Honour List.

BOOKS

deWaard, Andrew and R. Colin Tait. The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: indie sex, corporate lies and digital videotape. New York: Columbia University Press. In Press. Anticipated Release: March 2013.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS

deWaard, Andrew.  “The Hood Is Where the Heart Is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film.”  Habitus of the ’Hood.  Eds. Chris Richardson and Hans Skott-Myhre. Chicago, IL: Intellect Ltd, 2012. 253 – 270. [Abstract] [Intellect] [WorldCat] [Amazon]

deWaard, Andrew.  “Intertextuality, Broken Mirrors, and The Good German.”  The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh.  Eds. Steven M. Sanders and R. Barton Palmer.  Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.  107-119.  [Abstract] [Full text pdf] [University Press of Kentucky] [WorldCat] [Amazon]

deWaard, Andrew. “Joints and Jams: Spike Lee as Sellebrity Auteur.” Fight the Power!: The Spike Lee Reader.  Eds. Janice D. Hamlet and Robin R. Means Coleman.  New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 345-361. [Abstract] [Full text pdf] [WorldCat] [Peter Lang] [Amazon]

deWaard, Andrew.  “It’s Up To You… No Really, It’s Up to You: Radiohead, Big Music, and the Future of the Record Industry.”  The Business of Entertainment: Popular Music.  Ed. Robert C. Sickels.  Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2008.  133-153.  [Abstract] [Full text pdf] [WorldCat] [Praeger Publishers] [Amazon]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

deWaard, Andrew.  “The Geography of Melodrama, The Melodrama of Geography: The ‘Hood Film’s Spatial Pathos.”  Cinephile 4.1 (2008).  58-65.

deWaard, Andrew.  “The Global Social Problem Film.“  Cinephile 3.1 (2007).  12-18.

CONFERENCES

2012. “The Cultural Capital Project: Radical Monetization of the Music Industry.” Refereed conference paper to be presented at Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA.

2011. “Mise-en-synergy.” Refereed conference paper presented at Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA.

2010. Featured participant in the “Featuring Music From…: Song, Sound, and Remix” panel at the FLOW Conference. University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX.

2010. “Mise-en-Scene, Sound, Cinema, Synergy, Samurai.” Refereed conference paper presented at the Film Studies Association of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

2010. “30 Rock, General Electric, and the Boardroom Musical.” Refereed conference paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.  Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

2008. “The Intertextual Museum (and Gift Shop): Towards a Cultural Economy of Intermediality.”  Refereed conference paper presented at the Film Studies Association of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2008. “The Intertextual Museum: V for Vendetta, Children of Men, and post-apocalyptic intermediality.”  Paper presented at Interculturality and Intermediality: an encounter of cultures, cinema and media.  Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

2007. “A Deleuzian Re-Imagining of the (Global) Social Problem Film.”  Refereed conference paper presented at the Film Studies Association of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.

2007. “The Global Social Problem Film.” Paper presented at Shifts, Ruptures, and Dissonances: Liminal Spaces of the Social.  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2006. Advanced Oral History Summer Institute.  University of California, Berkeley, CA.

AWARDS

  • 2011 – 2015: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2011 – 2015: Chancellor’s Fellowship – University of California, Los Angeles
  • 2011 – 2015: Regents Special Fellowship – University of California, Santa Barbara (declined)
  • 2007 – 2008: Patrick David Campbell Graduate Fellowship
  • 2006 – 2007: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship
  • 2006 – 2007: Faculty of Arts Grant Supplement Award
  • 2006 – 2007: Graduate Entrance Scholarship
  • 2006 – 2007: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined: out of province)

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

  • Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC): 2007 – present
  • Canadian Communications Association (CCA): 2009 – present
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS): 2010 – present

CREATIVE WORKS

Just Kids: Homeless Youth in Canada (2003)

  • Documentary comprised of interviews with homeless youth about the struggles and hardships of living on the streets in London, Ontario.
  • Competed in multiple festivals, used in Ontario secondary schools and university courses as teaching material.

CV last updated: February, 2012