Dan Vena, Queen's University

Research

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Latest funding

Dreamers of the Day: Uncovering the Lost Lesbian Decade in Canadian Filmmaking History, 1987-2003
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$302,180
Bodies on Fire: Rekindling the Lesbian Decade in Canadian Film, 1990-1999.
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$74,528

All 2 grants and awards

No publications available.

Dreamers of the Day: Uncovering the Lost Lesbian Decade in Canadian Filmmaking History, 1987-2003

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: de Szegheo Lang, Tamara

$302,180

Bodies on Fire: Rekindling the Lesbian Decade in Canadian Film, 1990-1999.

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: de Szegheo Lang, Tamara

Keywords: film studies; queer cinemas; lesbian history; Canadian film history; media preservation; archives; media digitization

$74,528

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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