Kirsten Smith
9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Kirsten Smith joined the program in Fall 2020. She completed MIMS minor.
Her research broadly focuses on multilingual cinema in the 21st century. While her primary focus is the representation of allophone languages in Québec, she also researches SWANA francophone film archives, French co-productions and film institutions, Franco-Hispanic films, global film festivals, and Indigenous storywork and narratives in Canada. Additionally, she is interested in video game studies (ludology and narratology in video games). she is actively working on publications discussing the cinematics of video games in the late 20th and 21st century.
She started her academic career at Wright State University, where she received a Bachelor's of Arts in Spanish with a minor in Arabic, and a Bachelor's of Arts in French in the Fall of 2017. She received my Master's in French with a focus on Franco-Arab studies from the University of Cincinnati in the Spring of 2020. Her dissertation is on multilingual Québécois cinema in the 21st century.