Michael Zryd

Current major research projects include a conceptual reconstruction of Hollis Frampton’s Magellan and an institutional study of the development of cinema and media studies in Canada and the United States from the 1960s to the present. Professor Zryd has curated or co-curated Hollis Frampton  Magellan retrospectives in Toronto, New York, Karlsruhe and London, and has lectured in Canada, United States, Germany, Spain, UK and Argentina.

Dr. Zryd co-founded (with Prof. Robin Blaetz, Mount Holyoke College) the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group (external link)  at SCMS (external link)  and, with Prof. Sharon Hayashi (York University), the Toronto Film Seminar. He has served as archivist of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS (external link) ) and on the SCMS Board of Directors 2008-11; as president of the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC (external link) ) 2005-06; and as chair of the board of directors of the Images Festival (external link)  2004-05.

At York, Professor Zryd has taught courses on film history, theory and aesthetics; methodology, experimental film and media, American cinema, early cinema, and the musical. He was awarded the Faculty of Fine Arts Senior Faculty Teaching Award in 2011.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2010 - Nicholas Balaisis; Dissertation: Seeing for the first time: Cinema spectatorship, the public sphere, and the articulation of the Cuban revolutionary subject