Affiliated faculty
CISSC Affiliated Faculty include all Concordia faculty who are members of one or other of the CISSC Working Groups and all Concordia faculty who serve on the supervisory committees of interdisciplinary Humanities PhD students. The latter are listed below:
Faculty members and advisors
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Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Taste Formations -
Community, Mobility, Travel, Transnational links, Elites and Youth -
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Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory -
Victorian literature & culture / 19th century print culture & rhetoric, history of technology, sound recording, poetry -
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Shiism, Sunni-Shiite relations,Women and Islam,Islamic Law, Islam in the West -
Contemporary Epistemology/Experimental Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Psychology/Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy of Science -
postcolonial studies / environmental humanities / South Asian literature / media studies / globalization & diaspora -
Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / Milton / gender studies / philosophy & literature / critical theory -
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Iranian History, Religions of Iran, Zoroastrianism, Kurdish Religion, Central Asian history, Tajiks, Ossetia, Caucasus -
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Restoration & 18th century British literature / drama / the novel / literary criticism / 20th century American popular culture / media theory -
Bina Freiwald
Professor, English
Director, Humanities PhD Program, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC)
Member of Academic Council, Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies
autobiographical practices / gender and sexuality / women's writing / contemporary Canadian literature / Israel & Palestine -
Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy -
Monika Kin Gagnon
Professor, Communication Studies
Director, MA in Media Studies, Communication Studies
experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; research and research-creation methods; identity and cultural politics -
early modern literature / Bloomsbury / poetics / literary history -
deindustrialization, oral history, public history, memory, forced migration, genocide, urban change, industrial heritage, Montreal, Sud-Ouest, Northern Ontario, US Industrial Midwest, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad -
Gender and Development, Legal Anthropology, Muslim Feminisms -
The Body and Senses, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics -
Food and Sustainability, Social Economy, World-System Studies -
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Latin America, gender, religion, crime, contraception, deviancy, Mexico, fiction, race, medicine -
Creolization, Language and Culture, Food -
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Erica Lehrer
Associate Professor, History
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies
(Cross appointed in History) Memory/Heritage/Museums, Jewish culture -
Louis Patrick Leroux
Professor, English
Professeur titulaire, Études françaises
Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Arts and Science
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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 -
Krista Lynes
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies
Director, Feminist Media Studio
feminist media studies; feminist theory; queer theory; contemporary art; experimental media; video art; migration studies; globalization studies; border theory; critical race studies; affect theory; social movement studies; research-creation
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Chinese Politics and Gender Politics. -
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Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean. -
Greg Nielsen
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Co-Director of the Concordia Centre for Broadcasting Studies (CCBS)
Social and Cultural Theory, Journalism and Media Studies -
Csaba Nikolenyi
Professor, Political Science
Director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies
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Canadian Jewish Studies, North American Literature, Holocaust Studies, Eastern Europe, Yiddish literature, Creative Writing -
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Rural Canada, inequality, community development, social capital, comparative policy -
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History of cities and urban planning, history and politics of policing, race and racism, and housing and tenants' rights. -
Daniel Salée
Professor, Political Science
Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
Professeur, School of Community and Public Affairs
The politic of citizenship; Aboriginal peoples; ethnocultural diversity; nationalism; Quebec and Canadian politics -
International Relations; Security; Strategic Studies -
Sex Industry, Mixed Methodologies, Social Justice, Policy Research -
Digital Culture, Science and Technology, Social Theory -
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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 -
Matt Soar
Professor, BA Programs Director, BA/Diploma Internships Coordinator, Communication Studies
Media and Cultural Studies, Intermedia Arts, Residual and Emergent Media, Media Archaeology, Studies of Cultural Production, Experimental Film, Web Docs, Graphic Design -
Jeremy Stolow
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Director, PhD in Communication Program, Communication Studies
Media History, Material Religion, Religion & Media, History of Photography, Technology and Culture, Print Culture, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Spiritualism and the Occult, Science and Technology Studies -
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Religion and Politics, Religion and Human Rights, Orthodox Christianity and Gender, Early Christianity / Patristics, Ecumenism -
environmental and ecological humanities; nuclear and atomic history and aesthetics; cultural theory; writing as method; north and nordicity; monuments, archives and memory; risk and futurity -
Quebec, Social Movements, Political Sociology -
Darren Wershler
Associate Professor, English
Concordia University Research Chair, Media & Contemporary Literature, Tier 2, English
media history / video game studies / communication studies / contemporary literature / avant-garde poetics
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contingent, activities of daily living, embodiment, senses, textile arts, 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 -
Sandeep Bhagwati
Professor, Music
director, matralab - lab for research-creation in the performing arts
matrabox EV 4.502 matraoffice FB 630.23/25, Fine Arts
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 -
Elaine Cheasley Paterson
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Fine Arts
Associate Professor, Art History
Member, School of Irish Studies
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 -
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history of architecture, built environment, urban futures, landscape architecture, urban landscapes, feminist theory, garden studies, women architects, women artists, research-creation, critical heritage studies, public memory, public art, public space, posthumanism -
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 -
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Professor, Art History
Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas
Board Member, College Art Association - VP External Relations
ethnocultural art histories, global art histories, media arts, curatorial studies, contemporary art, cultural diversity, biennials, screen culture, representation, Asian Canadian, transnationalism -
Martha Langford
Professor, Art History
Research Chair and Director, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Editor-in-chief, Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien
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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 -
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Jason Edward Lewis
Professor of Computation Arts, Design and Computation Arts
University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary
Trudeau Fellow
Research Director, Obx Labs
Director, Initiative for Indigenous Futures
Co-director, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Co-director, Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media
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 -
Edward (Ted) Little
Professor and Chair, Theatre
Associate Artistic Director, Teesri Duniya Theatre
Concordia Provost's Fellow (1st Year Experience)
Socially engaged and activist theatre and performance; oral history performance; intersections between cultural plurality, politics, and theatre
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process philosophy, neurodiversity, research-creation -
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 -
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John Potvin
Professor, Art History
Member, Centre for Sensory Studies
Associate Editor, Journal of Design History
Design History; The Practices and Histories of Interior Design; The Visual and Material Cultures of Masculinity and the Body; Fashion History; Modernism in Art, Fashion and Design; Queer Theory and Cultural Production -
Rhona Richman Kenneally
Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Fellow and co-founder, School of Irish Studies
food studies, built environment, materiality, design justice, design theory, domestic space, conceptions of home, Irish studies, Expo 67, wearables, ecosophy, culture and commemoration, mindful eating -
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 -
Christopher Lloyd Salter
Professor - Computation Arts, Design and Computation Arts
University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses
Co-Director, Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Media Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture
Director, Hexagram Concordia
Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Director, xmodal
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 -
Contemporary Art, Canadian Art since the 1960s, Landscape, Art and Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Urban Art and Culture -
performance studies, material performance, avant-garde and experimental theatre, animation of public space, object theatre, performance ethnography, Hemispheric performance, magic, community art, cantastoria, political circus, parades, pageantry, collective creation, festival, radical pedagogy -
Kathleen Vaughan
Concordia University Research Chair in Socially Engaged Art and Public Pedagogies (Tier 2)
Associate Professor, Art Education
Co-Director, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
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 -
screen culture, history of the moving image, museology, 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 -
Thomas Waugh
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Cinema
documentaries, film/media theory, queer studies, sexual representation, Canadian cinema, cinema quebecois, HIV/AIDS, queer film/media, Joris Ivens, independent Indian cinema, pornography, homoeroticism, history of the moving image, gender and sexuality, identity/territory, social change, cultural studies, Quebec studies, activism
