Cristiani Bilhalva
	Program	PhD candidate
	Education	M.F.A. in Screenwriting: USC School of Cinematic Arts; B.A. in History (Brazil): PUC-RS, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
	Dissertation	Screenwriting, Cinema and Female Authorship in the 1990s
	Interests	Critical studies; screenwriting; history; art history; film history; Brazilian cinema; the avant-garde; documentary; independent cinema; animation & compositing in cinema; female writer-directors; feminism; globalization & the ecosystem; ecology; animal welfare & animal rights; bioethics; environmental activism; philosophy; history of technology & science; sustainability & green architecture; permaculture; commodity & consumer culture; Marxist, Freudian & Lacanian theory; psychoanalytic theory; race, class & gender; sociology; anthropology; contemporary literature; surrealism; dadaism; improv; comedy; conceptual art
	Contact	crisbilhalva[at]yahoo[dot]com, bilhalva[at]usc[dot]edu