Dr. Carolina Cambre, Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal CA.  Her work explores vernacular visual expression asking: How do people produce and direct the visual space. How is the image a doing? What are the social and cultural work/ings of images? She has ongoing projects on visual processes of legitimation, representation of online sharing, the visual politics of identity, and polymedia literacies. She is the author of: The Semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective gateways (2015) and co-author of The Filtered Face: Toward a Sociology of Selfies (Routledge, forthcoming) with Christine Lavrence. Cambre is also co-editor of the forthcoming collections, Representation/Presentation/Embodiment (Bloomsbury, UK in press) and Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases & Practices (Brill | Sense Publishers, NL under review) Cambre’s artistic work in the mediums of encaustic, photography and multi-media collage has been featured as cover art for a number of magazines and books as well as juried competitions.

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