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Deirdre Flynn completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with notable scholars Kaja Silverman and John Bishop. She is currently finalizing a book manuscript that traces the evolving forms and functions of cinematic writing in European modernist texts and films, focusing particularly on the works of the Lumière Brothers, Méliès, Joyce, Proust, Murnau, Wiene, Woolf, Buñuel, Eisenstein, Riefenstahl, Vertov, Rhys, Resnais, Borowski, and Beckett. Furthermore, she has contributed to publications by publishing articles on the cinematic elements in the works of Beckett, Joyce, Woolf, and Proust. In addition to her research, she has co-authored several textbooks, including 'Necessary Fictions: Narratives of Coherence in World War II' (2015), 'Nerves and Patterns of the Screen: An Introduction to Film Studies' (2014), 'Ladders to Start: Twentieth Century Western Culture Literature Film' (2013), and the 'McGraw-Hill Handbook: Canadian Edition' (2010). Currently, she teaches literature, film, and writing at the University of Toronto.
Department of Sociology