Industrial films as a glimmer of hope? Extractive industries and Indigenous resilience and resurgence in northern Quebec

Biographie de l'auteur-e

• Isis Luxenburger

  Isis Luxenburger is a doctoral researcher at the chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, where she also teaches classes on industrial film, industrial aesthetics, and industrial culture. She was a doctoral researcher in the International Research Training Group “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” at Saarland University in cooperation with the University of Trier and the University of Montreal (2019 – 2022). Isis is currently working on her interdisciplinary dissertation project on the mediation of industrial culture in films on heavy industry in Quebec and the Greater Region SaarLorLux, for which she was awarded the research prize “Interregionale Forschungsförderung/Soutien interrégional à la recherche” of the Greater Region. Since 2019, she has held different positions within the Emerging Scholars’ Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries, and is currently the association’s spokesperson.