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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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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.
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.