Updated: October 2024
Education:
August 2023 – September 2024 M.A., Queen’s University, Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Completed under the supervision of Dr. Ali Na. GPA 4.3
August 2019 – May 2023 B.A., Occidental College, Media Arts and Culture: Critical Media Studies Track, Minor in Urban Education. GPA 3.94. Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Honors
Presentations and Publications:
DiBona, Francesca C. “Remember the Future You Cannot Imagine: Affinitive Futurisms and Unknowable Utopias in Ningwasum.” Master’s Thesis, Queen’s University, 2024. https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/items/761b9b4f-cae1-4b93-b8d0-e3a182a1b2b2.
DiBona, Francesca C. "Feedback, Fugitivity, and Overexposure: Monique Walton’s Dark Matters and the Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism Collection" Film Matters, vol. 15, no. 2. Intellect, 2024.
October 2024 – “Tactical Media: Small File Media in States of Siege and Infrastructural Precarity” panel discussion at the 2024 Small-File Media Festival
October 2024 – Rather, Mehvish and DiBona, Francesca C. Be Brave, 2024. Screening at the 2024 Small-File Media Festival and panel participation
Lin, Vivian W., DiBona, Francesca C. "Media Activism Through Participatory Video" Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century. Cilect, 2024.
“Smelling the Screen: Tampopo’s Use of Tactile Memory,” Video Essay. Featured in Allison De Fren’s forthcoming article in MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism.
February 2024 – “Feedback, Fugitivity, and Overexposure in Monique Walton’s Dark Matters” presentation at NYU’s Cinema Studies Student Conference Holding The Gaze.
May 2023 – “Painters on Painting: Zeng Fanzhi” a conversation at Hauser and Wirth Los Angeles. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wfx4PSEPCk
November 2022 – “What Are You Eating?” oral presentation at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research
Research Experience:
February 2024 – Present Digitization and restoration of 50+ x-ray films for Kevin Munhall and the Queen’s University Speech Perception and Production Lab
January 2024 – April 2024 Curatorial Assistant for “On the possibilities of diasporic encounter,” installed at the Art and Media Lab in Kingston, Ontario
January 2022 – May 2023 Education in Action Facilitator and Teaching Assistant for Media Activism Through Participatory Video at Occidental College
August 2022 – May 2023 Honor’s Thesis in Media Studies
August 2022 – May 2023 Student Research Assistantship with Dr. Vivian Wenli Lin
May 2022 – August 2022 Critical Media Studies Undergraduate Research at Occidental College (funded through the Mellon Foundation’s Arts and Technology Fellowship)
August 2021 – May 2022 Bachelor's Thesis in Media Studies
Relevant Work Experience:
January 2024 – Present Digitization technician at the Vulnerable Media Lab
April 2024 – October 2024 Sales and visual manager at Berry and Peterson Booksellers ABAC
September 2023 – September 2024 Teaching Assistant for Queen’s University: Film and Media courses 111, 112, 260
August 2022 – May 2023 Admissions Senior Fellow at Occidental College
August 2021 – December 2021 Food Culture Columnist at The Occidental
January 2021 – May 2021 Restorative Justice Intern at Carpenter Community Charter Elementary School
May 2017 – May 2019 Program Developer at The Institute for Applied Tinkering
September 2015 – June 2019 Collaborator at The Institute for Applied Tinkering
Relevant Volunteer Experience:
October 2023 – Present Cinema Society of Kingston Programming Board member
February 2024 – ReelOut 2024 Projectionist
February 2023 – May 2023 Reader at Reading to Kids
September 2022 – May 2023 Student Representative to the Occidental College Board of Trustees (Student Life and Enrollment Management Committee)
June 2022 – “Centering Center” Installation Team Member at ArtworxLA/Tonalism Festival
March 2022 – Notetaker at North American Volume of the International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice Workshop
Skills and Certifications:
LaserGraphics ScanStation 8mm to 70mm film scanning
Magnetic audiovisual media digitization and equipment management
Diamant Film Restoration software
TCPS CORE 2022 Course on Research Ethics
CITI Human Subjects Research Certification: Social Sciences
Adobe Creative Suite
Relevant Coursework
Graduate Coursework – Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, Histories and Methodologies of Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, Media Production Seminar
Undergraduate Coursework (Reverse Chronological Order) – The Video Essay, Education Inequality, Directed Research in Critical Media Studies, Afrofuturism, East Asian Art History, Educational Innovations and Challenges, Media Activism Through Participatory Video, New Waves in East Asian Cinema, Critical Race Theory in Education, Women’s Migration and Media, Chicano Education, Conflict in Education, Community Engagement in Education, The Body and The City, The Female in Japanese Film and Media, The School-to-Prison Pipeline, Digital Media and Culture, Remix Media and Culture Jamming, Reflections on Life in the Digital Age, Sociocultural Foundations of Education, Visual and Critical Studies