Faculty members

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: 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)

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

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: Black diasporic art histories, Black Canadian Studies, Black Feminist art history, Critical Museology

Research areas: photography history, curatorial studies, aesthetic theory, art criticism, archives, critical public pedagogy, citizenship studies, colonialism, feminist theory, research-creation

Research areas: Indigenous, gender, sexuality, Indigenous artistic production, Queer, 2Spirit, Indigenous Feminism(s), Indigenous Sovereignty, LGBTQ2spirit

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

status: Faculty Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute

Research areas: Critical ethnic studies, Visual culture, Asian and Arab Diasporic Cultural Studies, Surveillance studies, Fashion, Race and religion, Policing, Contemporary art, Resistance

Research areas: Italian Renaissance Art, Medieval Art, Sacred and Devotional Art, Anthropology and Art, Art and Ritual, Gender and Sexuality, Early Modern Art Theory, Materiality, Art and Language

Research areas: Visual and material cultures of Canada; history and theory of art institutions; theories of exhibition; historiography; women and museums; settler-colonial art history

Research areas: Contemporary Mexican and Latino American art, popular culture and aesthetics, geography and the representation of space, violence and narcotrafficking.

Research areas: contemporary art, video art, media art, installation, photography, cinema, sound, drawing, moving image studies, screen culture, documentary, experimental cinema, film/media theory, temporality, memory, archive, autobiography, performativity, identity, transnationalism

Research areas: Contemporary Canadian art

Research areas: Pilgrimages, Representations of Eve in Romanesque Sculpture, Digital Humanities, Spolia in Christian & Islamic Medieval Architecture, Body & Beauty in Medieval Art & Thought, Vernacular & Religious Literature, Theology, Women Issues, Neo-medievalism

Research areas: modern and contemporary art; performance, the body, gender and sexuali- ty; feminist and decolonial theories of gender and sex; collective mythologies of nationhood and the politics of identity; critical theory.

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