Faculty
Keywords: arts education; music education; arts-based research; assessment in the arts
Chief Curator/Curator of Canadian Historical Art
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Keywords: Canadian historical visual and material culture, with emphasis on women artists, feminist art history, artistic groups, regional scenes, collecting histories and intersections of fine art and craft.
Keywords: North American cultural and intellectual history; Canadian-American relations; elite, mass, and popular cultures; philanthropy; cultural policy.
Keywords: community music education; elementary music education; music theatre; research-creation methodologies; responsive and place-based pedagogies; accessibility and inclusion.
Keywords: reproductive technologies; genetic engineering; the political economy of manufacturing; feminist social thought; visual culture (anatomy, cancer care, science fiction).
Keywords: reparative environmental history; the idea of 'nature'; ecologies and ecosystems; historical geographies of colonialism; sound and sonic arts of place; psychoanalysis.
Associate Professor
English Literature and Creative Writing
Keywords: Working-Class Culture & 19th Century Labour History, Slumming and Victorian Poverty, Popular Culture in the 19th Century, 19th Century Sociology and/in Literature, Gothic and Monster Studies, Vampire Studies, Video Games and Literature, Autism and Neurodiversity in literature
Keywords: Francophone cultural history; Québec/Acadia/French Canada; North American popular culture; commemoration/memory/historiography; festivals and festivities; material culture; speculative and science fiction.
Keywords: religion, atheism, media, affect, divination, algorithmic culture
Keywords: process-based, participatory curatorial practice; art as a form of social and civic engagement; “in-reach” (engaged institutional practice); transforming the nature and function of the traditional art gallery through work with communities and non-western models of cultural traditions; BIPOC cultural ecologies and the future of museological practice.
Keywords: political ecology; critical agrarian studies; social justice; environmental sustainability; neoliberalism, the state, and collective action; peasant, Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities; water governance; social technologies; Latin America.
Keywords: disability and assistive technologies; human-machine interfaces; universal design.