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This directory includes Cultural Studies-affiliated faculty and can be used to identify potential supervisors or committee members using the search bar to confirm if there are professors doing research in the areas of interest to you. Keywords are non-standardized; to maximize search effectiveness, use variants or abbreviations, e.g., "cinema film video," "femini," or "histor."

Assistant Professor

Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering

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.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: popular music; visual culture; critical theory; music and violence.

Associate Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: media art; art and feminism; animation history and theory; experimental music; magic and the occult; speculative futurisms; human-animal relationships. 

Professor

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Keywords: poverty; food; the body; health; childhood; qualitative research methods.

Associate Professor

Geography & Planning

Keywords: global urban infrastructure; social reproduction; bioeconomies; urban political ecology; critical development studies; health sociology; critical race feminist geographies.

Associate Professor

Classics

Keywords: cultural relations between Roman soldiers and Indigenous peoples; religious practices of Roman soldiers; Nabataean religion and culture; ancient bath-houses and bathing technology; petroglyphs and graffiti from all cultures; history of archaeology and attitudes towards cultural heritage.

Associate Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: music theatre and opera in Canada & US; musicology; performance studies;  historiography; popular culture; memory theory; intermediality.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: scenography; theatre production design; interaction of architecture, sound, and performance design. 

Associate Professor

French Studies

Keywords: Haitian literature and history; Black diaspora and anticolonialism; Black/Indigenous relations; Haitian solidarity and community with the Taíno, Indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola; Spanish colonialism; national narratives and mythologies.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: Canadian film industry; urban film cultures; film festivals; event cinema and new modes of film distribution; cinema and intermediality.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: histories, reconstructions, and new performances of late 20th century electronic and experimental music; electroacoustic composition practices including field recording, studio recording, synthesis, processing and mixing; building sensor-based instruments and controllers; sound and intermedia installation work; pop music recording and production.

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: twentieth century Canadian social movements in a transnational context; histories of global development; settler colonialism; race, gender, and decolonization; anticolonial and decolonial Indigenous social movements. 

Associate Professor

Gender Studies

Keywords: feminist, trans, and queer poetics; psychoanalysis and affect theory; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights; literatures and theory.  

Professor

Drama & Music

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. 

Associate Professor

History

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

Assistant Professor

Department of French Studies

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

Assistant Professor

History

Keywords: ancient South Asia; South Asian religion; forensics in colonial India; Indian cinema; horror films; food history.

Associate Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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.