Faculty

Assistant Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: playwriting, dramaturgy, multi-disciplinary performance; dance and physical theatre; African diaspora and mixed-race studies; Afrofuturism; Jewish, queer, and feminist studies; research creation.

Professor

Drama & Music

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

Professor

Drama & Music

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

Associate Professor

English

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: 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. 

Assistant Professor

Religion

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. 

Keywords: Greek and Roman art and archaeology; field archaeology; social status of artisans and artists; Ancient Greek colonies; classical tradition in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to present.