Christina Stojanova is Associate Professor  in the Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Media, Art & Performance at the University of Regina.  She is editor of The New Romanian Cinema (Edinburgh U Press, 2017) and  co-editor of the critical anthologies Wittgenstein at the Movies, with B. Szabados (Lexington Books, USA, 2011) and The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard, with D. Morray and N. Côté (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014). She is author of The Street, a monograph about Canadian animator Caroline Leaf (Toronto U Press, 2018) as well as of twenty-two chapters in anthologies on Eastern and Central European film and media, and on Quebec/Canadian multicultural cinema, with five of them translated into four languages. Dr. Stojanova has been a regular contributor in the popular and specialized film press, curator of twelve film retrospectives across Canada and abroad and jury member at twenty-three international film festivals. She is currently co-editing with Dr. Ian Germani The Legacy of German Expressionism.

On the Edges of Paradise:  Emigration, Migration and Immigration in Central and Eastern European Cinema is an interdisciplinary study of fiction and documentary films, produced worldwide since 1989, and reflecting on the phenomenon of emigration, migration and immigration to and from Eastern and Central Europe. By reactivating centuries-long geopolitical and cultural tensions between the affluent Northwest and its impoverished Eastern periphery, the EU migration crisis from 2015 and the Brexit aftermath have added a definite urgency to this research. The project therefore seeks to examine the phenomenon through both Eastern and Western European gazes, and on the basis of a detailed aesthetic and thematic taxonomy of the corpus.