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:
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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 -
Jason Camlot
Professor, English
Concordia University Research Chair (Tier I) in Literature and Sound Studies, English
Victorian literature & culture / 19th century print culture & rhetoric, history of technology, sound recording, poetry -
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sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation -
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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 -
game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture. -
postcolonial studies / environmental humanities / South Asian literature / media studies / globalization & diaspora -
Arseli Dokumaci
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies
Director, Access in the Making (AIM) Lab
critical disability studies, performance studies, research-creation, medical anthropology, environmental humanities -
Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / Milton / gender studies / philosophy & literature / critical theory -
translation, technologies, digital world, minority and low-resource language translation, Romani, localization, humanitarian, community translation, Indigenous, multilingual -
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 -
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Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy -
modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport / urban and mobility studies -
experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics -
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early modern literature / Bloomsbury / poetics / literary history -
Steven High
Full Professor, History
Founding Member, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
deindustrialization, oral history, public history, memory, forced migration, genocide, urban change, industrial heritage, Montreal, North America, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad -
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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Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies -
Memory/Heritage/Museums, Jewish-Polish Heritage, Decolonial Museology in East Central Europe -
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
Co-Director, Feminist Media Studio
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
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Women and Gender Equality Canada -
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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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Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / nationalism / fantasy / literary publics / popular literature -
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. -
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political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring -
Norman Ravvin
Professor / Interim Director Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Religions and Cultures
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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Municipal politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada. -
The politic of citizenship; Aboriginal peoples; ethnocultural diversity; nationalism; Quebec and Canadian politics -
International Relations; Security; Strategic Studies -
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 -
Critical Cultural Studies, Intermedia Arts, Residual and Emergent Media, Media Archaeology, Studies of Cultural Production, Experimental Film, Web Docs, Graphic Design -
creative writing / 19th century drama & literature / anatomical waxworks / botanical gardens / medical history -
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. -
Sociolegal Studies, Social and Political Theory, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, Criminology -
Religion and Politics, Religion and Human Rights, Orthodox Christianity and Gender, Early Christianity / Patristics, Ecumenism -
Law and Society, Criminal Accusation, Social Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Cultural Studies, Metal Studies, Extreme Metal, Religion and Modernity -
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 -
Quebec, Social Movements, Politics, Popular Culture -
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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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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
Elaine Cheasley Paterson
Professor of Craft Studies, Art History
Associate Dean, Academic Programmes and Pedagogy, Fine Arts
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 -
interactivity and immersion; public art and social engagement; affect; haunting and spectrality; cultural studies; visual and material cultures; museums and archives; multiculturalism; critical race studies; settler and postcolonial studies. -
Carmela Cucuzzella
Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design And Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE)
Founding Co-Director, Next Generation Cities Institute
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 -
Contemporary art, art + sci intersections, material culture, critical museology, curatorial practice, exhibition design, thing theory, non-traditional research, research-creation methodologies, thanatology, death and dying approaches, radical research methods, art + sci transdisciplinarity, leadership issues in arts administration, death studies (developing) -
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 -
Heather Igloliorte
Associate Professor, Art History
Tier 1 Concordia University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts, Art History
Co-Director, Indigenous Futures Cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Hexagram-Concordia
Director, Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership
Special Advisor to the Provost, Advancing Indigenous Knowledges
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 -
Shauna Janssen
Associate Professor, Theatre
Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism, Fine Arts
performative urbanism, spatial dramaturgy, public space, interdisciplinary practices, urban scenography, performance technology, design activism, queer theory, feminist methodology, socially engaged art, critical spatial practice, architecture -
Alice Jarry
Assistant Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality (New Scholar), Design and Computation Arts
materiality, urban futures, design for sustainability, research-creation, smart infrastructures, digital media, installation, interactivity, site-specific interventions, responsive environments, waste management, environmental strategies, land use, critical design, social design, socially committed art practice, aesthetics, visual arts -
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
ethnocultural art histories, global art histories, media arts, curatorial studies, contemporary art, cultural diversity, biennials, screen culture, representation, Asian Canadian, transnationalism -
Martha Langford
Distinguished University Research 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
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
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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 -
Martin Lefebvre
Chair of the School of Cinema; Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies (Hon.), Cinema
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. -
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 -
Jason Edward Lewis
Professor of Computation Arts, Design and Computation Arts
University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary
Special Advisor to the Provost on Indigenous Spaces
Co-director, Indigenous Futures Research Centre
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
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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 -
Christopher Moore
Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Graduate Program Director - MDes (Interim), Design and Computation Arts
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 -
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 -
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emergent media, cultural theory, globalization, visual culture, China, moving image studies, history of media arts, television, digital media, postcoloniality, ethnography, informal economy, critical theory, mobile media, intermedia, urban futures, cultural studies, popular culture, urbanization, development studies -
Marielle Nitoslawska
Professor (Film Production); Concordia Research Chair in Experimental Nonfiction Practices, Cinema
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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 -
John Potvin
Department Chair, Art History
Professor, Art History
Associate Editor, Journal of Design History
Member, Centre for Sensory Studies
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 -
Rhona Richman Kenneally
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Design and Computation Arts
Member, Textiles and Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute
Chair, Dept. of Design and Computation Arts (2010-12)
Academic Co-Founder and Fellow, School of Irish Studies
2019 Recipient, Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad
Concordia Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2015
Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Fine Arts, 2014
design justice, built environment, critical materiality, food studies, design theory, domestic space, Irish studies, Expo 67, fibres and 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 -
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 -
Mark J. Sussman
Professor, Theatre
Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
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 -
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 -
Kathleen Vaughan
Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1)
Professor, Art Education
Co-Director, Textiles and Materiality cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
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 -
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 -
Angelique Willkie
Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance
Co-chair of the Concordia University Task Force on Anti-Black Racism
dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies
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Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies