Faculty

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.

Keywords: acting, directing, and playwriting; Canadian theatre history; Shakespeare. 

 Keywords: North Indian classical dance; classical and vernacular musics and dance; colonialism and postcolonialism; gender; musical and cultural exchange; ethnography; South Asia.

Keywords: contemporary literature; ecocriticism and eco-cultural studies; climate collapse and environmental disaster; permaculture, biodynamics, and agroecology; technophilia and technophobia; risk theory; animals and animality.   

Keywords: African Studies, particularly the Horn of Africa; colonialism, decolonization, revolutions, and nationalist movements; peace, conflict and security studies; Eritrea, Somalia, East Timor; qualitative methods. 

Keywords: contemporary art theory and practice; interdisciplinary arts; drawing, collaborative and socially engaged arts; research-creation; environmental humanities; art and environment; art-science intersections; more than human worlds, edible plants, and posthumanities; visual cultural studies; curatorial practice.

Keywords: modernisms and avant-garde arts; comic strips and graphic novels; science fiction, crime, and other pulp genres; new and digital media; reading, empathy, and affect; ecocriticism and animal studies. 

Keywords: contemporary global Sufism and Islam in North America and South Asia (Sri Lanka); migrant and diaspora literatures, religions and popular culture; sacred spaces, ritual, and memory; gender and religious practice.