Faculty

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. 

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

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

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. 

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

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: 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