Alemany-Galway, Mary 1944-

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ALEMANY-GALWAY, Mary 1944-

PERSONAL:

Born March 28, 1944, in Spain; daughter of Jose and Conchita (Perez) Alemany; married Stephen Galway (divorced); children: Conchita Ondine. Ethnicity: "Spanish." Education: Attended McGill University, 1961-64; University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, B.F.A., 1967, M.A., 1983; Concordia University, M.A. (art education) 1981; Warwick University, Ph.D., 1997. Politics: "Postmodern."

ADDRESSES:

Office—School of English and Media Studies, Massey University, Palmerston-North, New Zealand. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, lecturer in creative arts, 1973-75; Dawson College, Montreal, lecturer in film studies, 1975-80; Vanier College, Montreal, lecturer in art education and creative drama, 1980-81; Concordia University, Montreal, lecturer in film history, 1983-84, special lecturer in film history, 1984-87, sessional lecturer in film history, 1987-88, assistant professor of cinema studies, 1988-89; University of Warwick, Coventry, Warwick-shire, England, lecturer in film studies, 1990-92; Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, lecturer in film studies, 1994-96; Massey University, Palmerston-North, New Zealand, lecturer in media studies, 1997—. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, part-time lecturer, 1996.

MEMBER:

Canadian Film Studies Association, Australia and New Zealand Canadian Studies Association, American Society for Cinema Studies.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Critic's Prize, finalist, Rendezvous du Cinéma Québécois, 1988, for "La Coleur Encerclé."

WRITINGS:

(Coeditor and contributor) Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 2001.

A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Critical Paths, edited by Renée Baert, Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1988; and Women Vision: A Century of Women in Australian Film, edited by Lisa French, Damned Publishing, 2002. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Illusions: New Zealand Moving Image and Performing Arts Criticism, Post Script, New Zealand Journal of Media Studies, Fuse, and La Parole Météque.

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

Ondine, 1976.

A Journal of the Plague Years, 1990.

Don't Go Mistaking Paradise, Cinéma Libre, 1991.

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