People

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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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.

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

MA Student

Cultural Studies

MA Student

Cultural Studies

PhD student

Cultural Studies

MA Student

Cultural Studies

MA student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Assistant Professor

Environmental Studies

Keywords: environmental politics, governance, and regulation; ecological economics; green industrial policy; trade and investment agreements; corporate power and accountability.

Associate Professor

Gender Studies, English

Keywords: comics and sequential art, feminism, queer theory, reproductive justice, theatre and performance, science fiction, fantasy, disability studies, art activism

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: transformative social movements; cultures of resistance and dissent in the larger Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Mediterranean regions; politics of alliance across generation, gender or sexual identity, religion, ethnicity, class; feminist ethnography; community-based research.

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

MA Student

Cultural Studies

Keywords: forced migration and involuntary displacement; necropolitics; bio-politics of citizenship; violence, human rights, and humanitarian intervention; postcolonial literatures; literary theory (Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism and psychoanalysis); critical race theories and multiculturalism; Adorno and the Frankfurt School; global cinema; race, gender and sexuality studies.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: visual and popular cultures; genre cinemas; horror films & monster movies; feminist-queer-trans histories of Classical Hollywood; fan-based reading practices; superhero comics; histories of eugenic medicine and criminality; curricular design and pedagogical strategies.

MA Student

Cultural Studies

Associate Professor

Art History

Keywords: historic and contemporary Indigenous arts of North America; curatorial and museum studies; colonialism and visual cultures; marketing of culture; arts of the Arctic; Inuit art.

Assistant Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: playwriting, dramaturgy, multi-disciplinary performance; dance and physical theatre; African diaspora and mixed-race studies; Afrofuturism; Jewish, queer, and feminist studies; research creation.