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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."
Keywords: media, performance, and culture with attention to race, gender, and sexuality; digital digital media and cultures; media installation and performance art; media and performance theory; popular culture and representation; material feminist studies and feminist technology studies; critical ethnic studies and US-based race studies, especially transnational Asian/American studies; speculative media studies; anti-racist, queer, feminist, trans politics.
Keywords: documentary and film theory; documentary and interactive documentary film-making; intersections of new media, oral history, geography; Israeli and Palestinian cinemas and media; histories of colonialism, resistance, and reslilience; co-creation and ethical participatory media practices.
Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), interaction design, fashion design, interactive furniture, accessible everyday things, aesthetic design, digital art, seamless sensing, wearable technology, smart textiles, crafting and cultural-based making, co-designing technology with marginalized groups and people with disabilities.
Associate Professor
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Keywords: Hispanic transatlantic avant-gardes (1915-1927); spatiality & literary geography; twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature, music, and film; political song in the Hispanic world (1960-1990).
Keywords: Medieval literature, civic and religious culture; medieval drama and theatrical traditions; contemporary Muslim writing and cultural production.
Assistant Professor
Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
Keywords: geography and international studies; Indigenous experiences of and resistance to imposed development; Canadian international mining and extractive industries in Latin America; human rights; academic activism; photography.
Keywords: popular music; visual culture; critical theory; music and violence.
Keywords: media art; art and feminism; animation history and theory; experimental music; magic and the occult; speculative futurisms; human-animal relationships.
Keywords: poverty; food; the body; health; childhood; qualitative research methods.
Keywords: cultural diplomacy; museums; art history and archaeology, especially Chinese art and archaeology; posthumanism.
Keywords: global urban infrastructure; social reproduction; bioeconomies; urban political ecology; critical development studies; health sociology; critical race feminist geographies.
Keywords: cultural relations between Roman soldiers and Indigenous peoples; religious practices of Roman soldiers; Nabataean religion and culture; ancient bath-houses and bathing technology; petroglyphs and graffiti from all cultures; history of archaeology and attitudes towards cultural heritage.
Keywords: music theatre and opera in Canada & US; musicology; performance studies; historiography; popular culture; memory theory; intermediality.
Keywords: scenography; theatre production design; interaction of architecture, sound, and performance design.
Keywords: Haitian literature and history; Black diaspora and anticolonialism; Black/Indigenous relations; Haitian solidarity and community with the TaÃno, Indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola; Spanish colonialism; national narratives and mythologies.
Keywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art with a focus on public art, sound art, and text-based work; sound studies; social arts practice; sensory studies; practice-based research in the arts.
Keywords: Canadian film industry; urban film cultures; film festivals; event cinema and new modes of film distribution; cinema and intermediality.
Keywords: histories, reconstructions, and new performances of late 20th century electronic and experimental music; electroacoustic composition practices including field recording, studio recording, synthesis, processing and mixing; building sensor-based instruments and controllers; sound and intermedia installation work; pop music recording and production.
Keywords: twentieth century Canadian social movements in a transnational context; histories of global development; settler colonialism; race, gender, and decolonization; anticolonial and decolonial Indigenous social movements.
Keywords: feminist, trans, and queer poetics; psychoanalysis and affect theory; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights; literatures and theory.