Tia Glista is an M.A. student at the University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute. She is interested in the politics of movement, gesture, pose, and embodied relations in feminist film and literature, in addition to theories of nonviolence. She engages closely with gender theory, performance studies, affect theory, phenomenology, and critical race studies. Her forthcoming M.A. project will focus on performances of gender in contemporary coming-of-age films, considering how girls' anxiety about binary gender is embodied through gesture and movement. Tia also holds a B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she created a self-directed major in “Feminist Imagemaking & Cultural Criticism” with an Art History minor. She hopes to begin PhD studies in fall 2022, with dreams of teaching on topics such as film bodies, violence in contemporary North American film & literature, feminist affect theory, and autotheoretical/autobiographical writing.