Pronouns: she/her

Bio: Ylenia Olibet is a researcher, educator, and emerging film curator based in Montréal since 2016. Her work explores how audiovisual archives can inspire social movements, with a focus on transnational and decolonial perspectives, as well as feminist and queer approaches to film culture in Francophone contexts.

Ylenia holds a PhD in Film Studies from Concordia University. In August 2023, she defended her dissertation titled “Feminist Film Culture in the 21st Century Québec: A Transnational Perspective.” Her doctoral research has also been supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Societé et Culture and by the Réseau québécois en études féministes. Her writings have been published in Feminist Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, Mai: Journal of Feminist Visual Culture, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and several edited volumes.