University of Stirling

Transnational Mobility, Displacement and Exile in Contemporary Nordic Cinema

Academic History:

2015 - 2018 PhD Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling

2014 - 2015 MRes Film & Visual Culture, Bangor University

2011 - 2014 BA (Hons) Film Studies, Bangor University

Supervisors:

Professor Elizabeth Ezra

Dr Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick)

Dr Susan Berridge

Research Interests:

• Nordic cinema
• Cinema and ideology
• Minority politics
• Sami cinema
• Indigenous media culture

Previous Research Projects:

2015- Negotiating the Thresholds: Sámi Cinema & the Politics of Identity

2014- The Borders & Beyond: The Globalization of Nordic Cinema

Scholarships:

2015 - 2018 AHRC DTP Scholarship

Awards:

2014 - Award for Best Theoretical Dissertation in the Division of Creative Studies & Media, Bangor University

2014 - Award for Best Academic Performance in the Division of Creative Studies & Media, Bangor University

Publications:

• Kääpä, Pietari and Moffat, Kate (2018) Unthinking Ethnocentrism: Ecocritical Approaches to Ethnic Diversity in Nordic Screen Media, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 8 (2) pp. 1-17 (forthcoming)
• Moffat, Kate (2018) Race, Ethnicity, and Gang Violence: Exploring Multicultural Tensions in Contemporary Danish Cinema, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies (forthcoming).
• Moffat, Kate (2018) Bodies in Transition: Somatechnics and the Experimental Art of Liselotte Wajstedt's Sámi Nieida Jojk/Sámi Daughter Yoik (2007), Somatechnics 8 (1) pp. 46-63
• Moffat, Kate (2017) Saamelainen elokuvakulttuuri muotoutuvana ”verkostoelokuvana” (Sámi Film Culture as an Emerging ”Network Cinema”), Lähikuva 30 (2) pp. 8-26 (in Finnish)
• Moffat, Kate (2016) From Imperfect Strangers to New Citizens: Screening Race & Ethnicity in Nordic Film History, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 6 (3) pp. 225-233
• Moffat, Kate “Canned Dreams and Lucid Nightmares: Katja Gauriloff and the ‘Cinema of Precarity’”, in Blackmore, Ernie, Knopf, Kerstin and Pearson, Wendy (eds.) Volume II: First Takes, Fourth World: Indigenous Films Around the Globe, London: Routledge/Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (under review)
• Moffat, Kate (2018/2019) “Aku Louhimies and the ‘Feel-Bad’ Side of the Finnish Welfare State” for submission to Austin, Thomas, Koutsourakis, Angelos (eds.) Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (under review)

Contact Details:

Address: University of Stirling, Pathfoot Building, Room D28a,  FK9 4LA

Work Tel No: +44 1786 473171

Email: k.l.moffat@stir.ac.uk

First published: 17 September 2015