Professor Dr. Anders Bergstrom

Biography

Anders Bergstrom is a film media scholar with a background in literature, composition, and critical theory. He completed his PhD in Film Studies in 2016, following a Master’s degree and Bachelor’s degree in English literature. Anders has spent years in Thailand teaching high school and exploring Southeast Asia. His research and teaching interests encompass communication writing, continental philosophy, spirituality, transnational Asian cinemas, and film genres such as science fiction and horror. His publications include "On Dissipation: Goodbye, Dragon Inn" and "Cinematic Past Lives: Memory, Modernity, Cinematic Reincarnation: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Recall Past Lives," published in the University of Manitoba’s interdisciplinary journal, Mosaic. His essay on Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and Christopher Nolan’s Inception was featured in the collection, Memory Effect: Remediation Memory Literature Film (2013) and received praise in the review by English Studies in Canada. In 2011, he wrote an introduction for a volume on Faith and Spirituality in World Cinema. His current research is situated at the intersection of media history and critical theory, investigating how Silicon Valley’s neoliberal ideology has shaped the contemporary conception of the liberal self. He is actively involved in developing academic public communications and has worked on designing a communication course for engineers at the University of Waterloo.

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