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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: ancient South Asia; South Asian religion; forensics in colonial India; Indian cinema; horror films; food history.
Keywords: linguistic anthropology; Indigenous language revitalization in Brazil and Canada; community-based research and collaborative ethnography.
Keywords: Science and Technology Studies; political economies of pharmaceutical knowledge and more broadly the political economy of knowledge.
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.
Keywords: contemporary Canadian theatre and performance; audiences as collaborators; participatory, documentary, and immersive theatre; site-specific performance.
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
keywords: the politics of health, sport, fitness, and the body; queer, feminist, and critical race studies; environmental justice; food studies; outdoor culture
Keywords: environmental politics, governance, and regulation; ecological economics; green industrial policy; trade and investment agreements; corporate power and accountability.
Keywords: comics and sequential art, feminism, queer theory, reproductive justice, theatre and performance, science fiction, fantasy, disability studies, art activism
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.
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.
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.
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.
Keywords: playwriting, dramaturgy, multi-disciplinary performance; dance and physical theatre; African diaspora and mixed-race studies; Afrofuturism; Jewish, queer, and feminist studies; research creation.