Affiliated faculty

Research areas: Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries

Research areas: Community, Mobility, Travel, Transnational links, Elites and Youth

Research areas: translation theory and history, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory. He is considered a leading scholar in postcolonial translation theory and history, transcultural and transnational studies, decoloniality, with particular interest in Africa and its diaspora, as well as encounters between the Global South and the Global North.

Research areas: South Asian history, food history, Colonialism/Imperialism, health histories, history of the body, Queer studies in Canada

Research areas: Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory

Research areas: Victorian literature & culture / 19th century print culture & rhetoric, history of technology, sound recording, poetry

Research areas: sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation

Research areas: Shiism, Sunni-Shiite relations,Women and Islam,Islamic Law, Islam in the West

Research areas: Contemporary Epistemology/Experimental Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Psychology/Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy of Science

Research areas: game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture.

Research areas: postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, plant studies, digital humanities, memory studies, Anthropocene studies, critical posthumanism, media studies, travel writing, disasporic studies, South Asian literature

Research areas: critical disability studies, performance studies, research-creation, medical anthropology, environmental humanities

Research areas: Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / Milton / gender studies / philosophy & literature / critical theory

Research areas: translation, technologies, digital world, minority and low-resource language translation, Romani, localization, humanitarian, community translation, Indigenous, multilingual

Research areas: Iranian History, Religions of Iran, Zoroastrianism, Kurdish Religion, Central Asian history, Tajiks, Ossetia, Caucasus

Research areas: Restoration & 18th century British literature / drama / the novel / literary criticism / 20th century American popular culture / media theory

Research areas: Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy

Research areas: modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport / urban and mobility studies

Research areas: experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics

Research areas: early modern literature / Bloomsbury / poetics / literary history

Research areas: deindustrialization, oral history, just transition, populism, public history, forced migration, capitalism, genocide, urban change.

Research areas: Anthropology of the Senses, Sensory Ethnography, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics

Research areas: Food and Sustainability, Social Economy, World-System Studies

Research areas: Latin America, gender, religion, crime, contraception, deviancy, Mexico, fiction, race, medicine

Research areas: Creolization, Language and Culture, Food

Research areas: Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies, Food and Foodservice Innovation

Research areas: Memory/Heritage/Museums, Jewish-Polish Heritage, Decolonial Museology in East Central Europe

status: Professor and Associate Dean, Research

Research areas: Arts based research and Wellbeing of Indigenous Youth Ethical Considerations of Arts Based Research Creative Practices in Teaching in Higher Education Facilitation Skills Ethical Know How

Research areas: feminist media studies; contemporary art and activism; queer theory; migration studies; globalization; border theory; feminist STS; infrastructure studies; critical race studies; affect; research-creation; environmental humanities

status: Professor

Research areas: Feminisms, Women's Movements, Intersectionality and EDI

Research areas: Gender and politics in Maoist China; Parents of Trans Youth and their Families; and Feminist Leadership and Institutional Transformation

Research areas: Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean.

Research areas: Social and Cultural Theory, Journalism and Media Sociology

Research areas: legislative studies, electoral systems, political parties and party systems

Research areas: Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / nationalism / fantasy / literary publics / popular literature

Research areas: Queering Suburbia, Queer Generationality and Urban Change, Queer Urbanisms and Gentrification, LGBTQ+ Activisms and Public Space, Queering Municipal Governance, Historical Geographies of Sexualities, Lesbian Studies.

Research areas: political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring

status: Professor

Research areas: Canadian Jewish Studies, North American Literature, Holocaust Studies, Eastern Europe, Yiddish literature, Creative Writing

Research areas: Rural Canada, inequality, community development, social capital, comparative policy

Research areas: Urban politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada.

Research areas: The politic of citizenship; Aboriginal peoples; ethnocultural diversity; nationalism; Quebec and Canadian politics

Research areas: International Relations; Security; Strategic Studies

Research areas: Digital Culture, Science and Technology, Social Theory

status: Professeure titulaire

Research areas: ageing studies; activist ageing; critical disability studies; mobile media; research creation; community based research; cultural discourses of age; social media as a representational force for generating knowledge about ageing subjects; ageing and technology

Research areas: Critical Cultural Studies, Intermedia Arts, Residual and Emergent Media, Media Archaeology, Studies of Cultural Production, Experimental Film, Web Docs, Graphic Design

status: Co-ordinator, Creative Writing Program

Research areas: creative writing / 19th century drama & literature / anatomical waxworks / botanical gardens / medical history

Research areas: Media History, Material Religion, Religion & Media, History of Photography, Technology and Culture, Print Culture, Spiritualism Magic and the Occult, Science and Technology Studies, History of the Body.

Research areas: Sociolegal Studies, Social and Political Theory, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, Criminology

Research areas: Religion and Politics, Religion and Human Rights, Orthodox Christianity and Gender, Early Christianity / Patristics, Ecumenism

Research areas: Law and Society, Criminal Accusation, Social Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Cultural Studies, Sound studies, Metal Studies, Extreme Metal, Religion and Modernity

status: Not accepting new graduate students

Research areas: environmental and ecological humanities; atomic photography; nuclear and atomic history and aesthetics; cultural theory; writing as method; north and nordicity; monuments, archives and memory; risk and futurity

Research areas: Quebec, Social Movements, Politics, Popular Culture

Research areas: media history / video game studies / communication studies / contemporary literature / avant-garde poetics

Research areas: continge, embodiment, senses, generativity, media arts, participation, audience, interactivity, installation, digital technologies, human body, organ transplants, art practice, kinetic, sculpture, installation, drawing, art medicine, art and technology, transdisciplinary, automata

status: Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art (2006-2016)

Research areas: music, musicking, music composition, comprovisation, research-creation, transdisciplinary aesthetics, interactive scores, trans-traditional musicking, experimental theatre, situative scores, dramaturgy, performance, contemporary music, improvisation, intercultural music, artistic research, music notation, music technology, voice, computer music, opera, music theatre, piano music, orchestra music

Research areas: *As detailed in my CV. Accepting inquiries for MFA supervision and PhD committee participation when time permits.

Research areas: Directing, Acting, Creation & Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Avant Garde Theatre, Devising, Dance Theatre, Performance Studies, Theatre for Social Change, Cultural Continuity, Indigenous Storytelling, Landscape Connectivity, Embodiment, Youth Culture

Research areas: complex dynamic systems, arts-based learning, teaching training, social media, internet studies, urban futures, pedagogy, curriculum development, data visualization, place, democratic values, youth media, youth engagement, social justice education, youth culture, critical disability studies

Research areas: critical craft studies, women's cultural philanthropy, feminism, material culture, handmade, social movements, textile arts, Arts and Crafts movement, Victorian Child migration, Irish studies, materiality, decorative arts, Canadian cultural history, design history, ornament, tradition/modernity, ceramics, canadian art history, curatorial practices, craftivism

Research areas: interactivity and immersion; public art and social engagement; affect; haunting and spectrality; cultural studies; visual and material cultures; museums and archives; critical race studies; settler and postcolonial studies.

Research areas: design studies, sustainability studies, architecture studies, built environment, cities, eco-design, eco-architecture, public space design, architecture competitions, teaching buildings, sustainability assessment tools, complex dynamic systems

Research areas: Contemporary art, material culture, critical museology, curatorial practice, exhibition design, thing theory, non-traditional research, research-creation methodologies, radical research methods, art + sci transdisciplinarity, leadership issues in arts administration, death studies (developing)

status: Professor Emerita

Research areas: meaning, Canadian art history, selfhood, women artists, subjectivity, colonialism, indigenous-settler relations, aesthetics, art historiography, 19th century, art-historical method, feminism, visual culture, Canadian cultural history, art theory, art and philosophy, material culture, identity

Research areas: Circumpolar Indigenous arts, Inuit, Metis, First Nations, Indigenous art and art history, curatorial practice, critical museology, Indigenous futures, sovereignty, continuity, decolonization, indigenization, contemporary art, new media, performance art, community consultation, collaborative art practices

Research areas: site-specific performance practice, dramaturgy, intermedial performance creation, scenographic practices, 3D creative technologies & performance, Queer-feminist practices, hemispheric performance, performance & public space, theatre & architecture

Research areas: Materiality; Waste Remediation; Waste Infrastructures; Urban Futures; Bio-Inspired Design; Critical Design; Design for Sustainability; Biocomposites; Biomaterials; Active Materials; Surfaces and Scaffolds

status: On sabbatical until June 30, 2025

Research areas: contemporary art, new media, contemporary Asian art, Asian Canadian, diaspora, ethnocultural art histories, migration, mobility, global art, critical curatorial studies

Research areas: witness function of art, response-art, survival strategies, trauma, Holocaust art, genocide studies, racial discrimination, art therapy, art psychotherapy, ethics of reception, art and psychoanalysis, postmodern theory, creativity, heuristic paradigm

Research areas: General and applied semiotics, philosophy (Peirce and pragmatism, Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language, epistemology, hermeneutics, aesthetics), classical and contemporary film theories, modern and postmodern film, narrative theory, cultural studies, cinéma québécois, Hollywood cinema, Hitchcock, Eisenstein, Truffaut, Godard and the French New Wave.

Research areas: history of games, game studies and design, digital games, adventure games, interactive narrative, genre, narrative, 3d Imaging, interactivity, interaction design, rendering, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, virtual environments, interface design

Research areas: Indigenous new media, Indigenous futures, digital poetry, the future imaginary, computational typography, computational culture, media arts, digital games, game studies and design, digital textuality, experimental typography, virtual environments, poetry, typographic design, computational aesthetics, Indigenous Peoples, mobile media, interface design, digital culture, science fiction

status: Professor

Research areas: process philosophy, neurodiversity, research-creation, ProTactile, blackness, ecology

Research areas: women and film/media, feminist media studies, creative economy, women's cinephilia, feminist theory, contemporary auteur cinema, moving image studies, postmodernism, globalization and women's cinema, silent films, film/media theory, theories of national cinemas, critical theory, screen culture, history of the moving image, French cinema, Italian cinema, Spanish cinema, literary theory

Research areas: humour and parody, playfulness, social change, visual communication, information design, semiotics, design theory, typographic design, satire, new media studies, art practice, Cuddle Commandos, installation, performance art, sculpture, storytelling, interactivity, everydayness, design economies, graphic design

Research areas: contemporary art, Indigenous Art, research-creation, art practice, Indigenous Peoples, visual arts, Indigenous knowledges, decolonization, Algonquin, cultural continuity, transcultural objects, cultural identity, sculpture, installation, video, public art, beadwork, photography, fibres, performance art, experimental theatre

status: Canada Research Chair and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab

Research areas: global media, digital culture, China/Asia, cultural theory, political theory, overdevelopment

Research areas: modernism, architecture, built environment, material culture, synthesis of the arts, post-WW2 reconstruction, Cold War, social history of art,Christian art and culture, Roman Catholic Church, Second Vatican Council, print culture, public art, abstraction in visual art, utopian thought, theological aesthetics, photography, history of the avant-garde, historiography

Research areas: Design History; Orientalism in Design & Art; Visual & Material Cultures of Masculinity; Modernism in Art, Design & Fashion; History of Interior Design; Fashion Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; Body Studies & the Senses

Research areas: built environment, food studies, domestic space, Irish studies, Expo 67, fibres and wearables, mindful eating

Research areas: cinephilia, experimental cinema, Japanese cinema, ethnographic film, women and film/media, cultural studies, film/media theory, criticism, North American cinema, melodrama, Walter Benjamin, phantasmagoria, classic Hollywood, film/media historiography, moving image studies, urban futures, cinema, Japan, sound, history of media arts

Research areas: immersion, machine learning, new media theory, STS, performance, haptics, senses, embodiment, digital audio, sensory studies, sensory ethnography, interaction design, media art history, sound design, critical AI studies, posthumanism, philosophy of technology, enactive cognition, research-creation

Research areas: Contemporary Art, Canadian Art since the 1960s, Landscape, Art and Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Urban Art and Culture

Research areas: oral history performance, listening/hearing, experimental theatre, research-creation, social innovation, documentary theatre, walking, participatory processes, sound, activism, war and memory, theatre for social change, relational art, storytelling, representation, drama/performance, violence, performance studies, Latin America, participatory art

Research areas: performance studies, material performance, avant-garde and experimental theatre, animation of public space, object theatre, performance ethnography, Hemispheric performance, magic,cantastoria, political circus, parades, pageantry, collective creation, festival, pedagogy

Research areas: performance studies, dance studies, writing and writing pedagogies, performing arts, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, movement, the body, embodiment, theories of everyday life, art and climate change, art and the environment

Research areas: socially engaged art, public pedagogies, place, posthumanism, environmental justice, human-animal ethics,interdisciplinarity, science-art collaborations, museum education, research-creation, oral histories, mapping, walking, hand-based and digital textiles, photography, collage, audio walks, urban futures, community arts, St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Iceland

Research areas: muselogy, feminism, moving image technologies, portable film technologies, cultural histories of cinema, moving image studies, film/media historiography, women and film/media, film/media theory, cultural studies, history of media arts, cinema, sound, television, web videos, critical curatorial studies, emergent media

Research areas: dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies

Research areas: Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies, Food and Foodservice Innovation