André Gaudreault

André Gaudreault is a professor in the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Film and Media Studies. He is the founder of Laboratoire CinéMédias, where he leads the International Partnership on Cinema Techniques and Technologies (TECHNÈS), the Programme de recherche sur l’archéologie et la généalogie du montage/editing (PRAGM/e) and the Groupe de recherche sur l’avènement et la formation des identités médiatiques (GRAFIM). A specialist in early cinema and a pioneer in cinema narratology, his current research is particularly interested in the advent of film editing, in the transmission of operas in movie theatres, in technological innovations seen from an “archaeological” perspective, and in the impact of digital technology on the world of media. His work, which has appeared in a great many books, articles and conference papers, has earned him, in addition to his election to the Royal Society of Canada (2014) and his being named Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française (2016), several awards and distinctions, including the International Jean Mitry award (2010), a Guggenheim fellowship (2013), the Prix Léon-Gérin (2017), the Killam Prize in the Humanities (2018) and an honorary doctorate from Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (2019).