People

This directory includes Cultural Studies-affiliated faculty and can be used to identify potential supervisors or committee members using the search bar to confirm if there are professors doing research in the areas of interest to you. Keywords are non-standardized; to maximize search effectiveness, use variants or abbreviations, e.g., "cinema film video," "femini," or "histor."

Professor

Political Studies

Keywords: Welfare; poverty; basic income; gendered and racialized violence; Canadian social policy; marginalized women's activism.

Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: cultural studies of media and technology; Cuban film and visual culture; feminist film culture in Canada and internationally; artists' groups, media arts collectives, and artist-run centres; feminist and critical theory; preservation, migration and remediation of vulnerable media; theories of publicity, temporality, and affect; cosmopolitanism, gendered spaces, and the city; curatorial practice and social justice. 

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: land-based learning; Indigenous land rights; Indigenous theory. 

Associate Professor

Political Studies

Keywords: contemporary political thought, including identity politics, feminist theory, critical theory, postmodern theory, Marxist theory, anti-racist theory, psychoanalytic theory, environmental theory, narrative theory, queer theory, race and sexuality studies, feminism, and transgender politics.

Keywords: film manifestos; process and handmade films; national and transnational identity in global cinemas; re-imagining Hollywood cinemas; Arctic cinemas and critical Arctic studies; Situationist practice and moving image activism.

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Keywords: Anishinaabe ontology; studio visual arts; phenomenology; critical theory; indigenous imaging practices; mnidoo interrelationality; epistemological sovereignty; impact of settler colonial logics.

Associate Professor

History

Keywords: histories and politics of gender and sexuality; Canadian social history; archival theory; Foucault studies.

Assistant Professor

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Keywords: semiotics; intertextuality; information circulation and sovereignty; Indigenous linguistic and cultural reclamation; functional approaches to grammar and discourse

Keywords: Indigenous literatures; contemporary Canadian literature; Indigenous governance and its pursuit through art; multiculturalism as an ideal and practice; hockey culture; masculinity theory; literary activism.

Keywords: Black Studies; theories of race; cultural geographies; anti-colonial studies; knowledge and liberation; Black Arts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art); Sylvia Wynter. 

Keywords: Black Atlantic cultures; politics and intellectual traditions; diasporic identities and decolonial praxis; migration and multiculturalism; public history and humanities.

Other Affiliations: Black Studies; Gender Studies; History

Associate Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: Jewish Latin American literature; Latin American women’s literature; Latin American film.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: curatorial studies; cinema and digital/new media; curatorship; digital replicas and cultural heritage; projection technologies.

Associate Professor

Sociology

Keywords: Science & 91ÊÓÆµ Studies; political sociology; ethnography; security and surveillance technology; science and state-making; artificial intelligence, algorithms, human dignity, and social justice. 

Professor and Associate Dean

Faculty of Education

Associate Professor

Art History & Art Conservation

Keywords: French, Scandinavian, and German art of the 19th and early 20th centuries; history of museums and collecting; the art of psychiatric patients; printmaking; intersections between art and science; critical theory, in particular feminist and critical race theory; historiography; medical humanities; visual and material culture studies. 

Associate Professor

Gender Studies

Keywords: Queer Studies; feminist and queer ethnography; histories and practices of anti-racist and anti-colonial activisms; white settler colonialism and Indigenous politics; activist research methods.

Associate Professor

English

Keywords: African American literature and culture; Black Studies; Sound Studies; Performance Studies.

Assistant Professor

Religion

Keywords: discursive construction of spirituality and religion; concepts of nonreligion and secularity; new religious movements; ritual; religion and/as media; contemporary and conceptual art; museums; everyday aesthetics; information overload, social media, and surveillance cultures; boredom and spirituality.

Keywords: oral, urban, and community-based history; the politics of heritage preservation and its relation to gentrification; southern Ontario treaty and Indigenous history; anticolonial and Indigenous theory; art as part of heritage interpretation and community building; American literature and culture before the Civil War; history of the newspaper.