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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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Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

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.

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

MA Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

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.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

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.

MA Student

Cultural Studies

Associate Professor

Art History

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.

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. 

 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. 

 

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

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.

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

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. 

PhD student

Cultural Studies