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This directory includes Cultural Studies MA and PHD students and our affiliated faculty. Use the "Filter by" drop-down menu to search only for Faculty, PhD Students or MA Students. The filter can also be used to view students by cohort, based on the year they joined the program.

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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.

MA student

Cultural Studies

Associate Professor

Art History

Keywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art with a focus on public art, sound art, and text-based work; sound studies; social arts practice; sensory studies; practice-based research in the arts.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

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

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.

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD student

Cultural Studies

MA Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

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.  

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. 

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Assistant Professor

History

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