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This directory includes Cultural Studies MA and PHD students and our affiliated faculty. Use the "Filter by" drop-down menu to search only for Faculty, PhD Students or MA Students. The filter can also be used to view students by cohort, based on the year they joined the program.

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Associate Professor

Gender Studies

Keywords: feminist, trans, and queer poetics; psychoanalysis and affect theory; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights; literatures and theory.  

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: clowning; theatre; the comedic and absurd as approaches to witnessing violence beyond an aesthetic of injury and spectacle; the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in translating stories of violence; creative non-fiction; the role of the imagination in learning and development; Canada's involvement in the development of the atomic bomb. 

Associate Professor

History

Keywords: history of the Middle East and Islam; market systems, the origins of global capitalism, consumerism, neoliberalism; theories of state formation.

Assistant Professor

Department of French Studies

Keywords: Women literature, creative writing, translation, Quebec’s literature, black studies, contemporary feminism. 

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Assistant Professor

History

Keywords: ancient South Asia; South Asian religion; forensics in colonial India; Indian cinema; horror films; food history.

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Associate Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: linguistic anthropology; Indigenous language revitalization in Brazil and Canada; community-based research and collaborative ethnography. 

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Keywords: Science and Technology Studies; political economies of pharmaceutical knowledge and more broadly the political economy of knowledge. 

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Keywords: ecological communities and environmental ethics; social construction of nature; environmental hermeneutics and phenomenology; emotional geographies; ethics of tourism; the place of nature in political and social theory; posthumanism. 

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Information & Media Studies

Keywords: contemporary art and cultural institutions; contemporary visual and material culture; curatorial studies; cultural diplomacy; transnational cultural brokering; Canadian and North American Studies. 

Assistant Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: Comparative Indigenous literary criticism in Canada and Québec; francophone Indigenous literature; environmental ethics and activism in Indigenous film and literature; Indigenous filmmaking and collaborative research methodologies across the Americas; theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: contemporary Canadian theatre and performance; audiences as collaborators; participatory, documentary, and immersive theatre; site-specific performance.

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: Indigenous Studies, Cultural Revitalization and Social Change, Critical Indigenous Theory, Indigenous and State Relations, Critical Prison Studies, Transracial Adoption, Oral History. 

Other Affiliations: Languages, Literature and Cultures