Faculty

Keywords: Queer Studies; feminist and queer ethnography; histories and practices of anti-racist and anti-colonial activisms; white settler colonialism and Indigenous politics; activist research methods.

Keywords: African American literature and culture; Black Studies; Sound Studies; Performance Studies.

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.

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.

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.