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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Distinguished University Research Professor, Communication Studies
Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries -
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Community, Mobility, Travel, Transnational links, Elites and Youth -
Associate Professor, History
Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Development, School of Graduate Studies
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Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory -
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 -
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation -
Professor, Religions and Cultures
Shiism, Sunni-Shiite relations,Women and Islam,Islamic Law, Islam in the West -
Professor, Philosophy
Contemporary Epistemology/Experimental Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Psychology/Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy of Science -
Professor and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, Communication Studies
game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture. -
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 -
Associate Professor, English
Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / Milton / gender studies / philosophy & literature / critical theory -
Professeure agrégée, Études françaises
translation, technologies, digital world, minority and low-resource language translation, Romani, localization, humanitarian, community translation, Indigenous, multilingual -
Professor, Religions and Cultures
Iranian History, Religions of Iran, Zoroastrianism, Kurdish Religion, Central Asian history, Tajiks, Ossetia, Caucasus -
Professor, English
Restoration & 18th century British literature / drama / the novel / literary criticism / 20th century American popular culture / media theory -
Professor, Philosophy
Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy -
Full Professor, English
Fellow, School of Irish Studies
modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport / urban and mobility studies -
Department Chair
Professor, Communication Studies
experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics -
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 -
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
The Body and Senses, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics -
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Food and Sustainability, Social Economy, World-System Studies -
Professor, History
Latin America, gender, religion, crime, contraception, deviancy, Mexico, fiction, race, medicine -
Professor, School of Irish Studies
Co-Founder, School of Irish Studies, Concordia University
Honorary Consul General for Quebec, Government of Ireland, 2002-2022
Principal, School of Irish Studies, 2009 - 2021
Co-Founder, Canadian Irish Studies Foundation
Trustee, Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, 2022-
Concordia University Chair in Canadian Irish Studies, 2002-2017
Recipient, Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad, 2019
Recipient, Honorary Doctorate, National University of Ireland, 2014
Recipient, Honorary Doctorate, University of Innsbruck, 2012
Academic Leadership Award, Concordia University, 2012
Recipient, Montreal Community Award, St. Patrick's Society of Montreal, 2009
Named to the Global Irish 100 list by Irish America Magazine, 2009
Grand Marshall, St Patrick’s Day Parade, Montreal, 2002
Editor, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2000-2003
Irishman of the Year, United Irish Societies of Montreal, 1997
Chair, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, 1994-2000
President, St. Patrick’s Society, 1993-1996
President, Canadian Association for Irish Studies, 1987-1990
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Professor, Marketing
3M National Teaching Fellow
Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies -
Professor, History
Memory/Heritage/Museums, Jewish-Polish Heritage, Decolonial Museology in East Central Europe -
Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences
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 -
Professor, Communication Studies
Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies
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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Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
Feminisms, Women's Movements, Intersectionality and EDI -
Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean. -
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Social and Cultural Theory, Journalism and Media Sociology -
Professor, Political Science
Director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies
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Professor, English
Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / nationalism / fantasy / literary publics / popular literature -
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
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. -
Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring -
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 -
Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Anthropology
Rural Canada, inequality, community development, social capital, comparative policy -
Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Municipal politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada. -
Professor, Political Science
Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
The politic of citizenship; Aboriginal peoples; ethnocultural diversity; nationalism; Quebec and Canadian politics -
Associate Professor, Political Science
International Relations; Security; Strategic Studies -
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Digital Culture, Science and Technology, Social Theory -
Professor, Communication Studies
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 -
Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies
Critical Cultural Studies, Intermedia Arts, Residual and Emergent Media, Media Archaeology, Studies of Cultural Production, Experimental Film, Web Docs, Graphic Design -
Associate Professor, English
creative writing / 19th century drama & literature / anatomical waxworks / botanical gardens / medical history -
Professor, Communication Studies
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. -
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Sociolegal Studies, Social and Political Theory, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, Criminology -
Professor and Graduate Program Director, Theological Studies
Religion and Politics, Religion and Human Rights, Orthodox Christianity and Gender, Early Christianity / Patristics, Ecumenism -
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Law and Society, Criminal Accusation, Social Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Cultural Studies, Metal Studies, Extreme Metal, Religion and Modernity -
Professor, Communication Studies
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 -
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Quebec, Social Movements, Politics, Popular Culture -
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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Professor, Studio Arts
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 -
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 -
Associate Professor, Theatre
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 -
Professor, Art Education
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 -
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 -
Assistant Professor, Art History
Assistant Professor, Cinema
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. -
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 -
Professor, Art History
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) -
Professor, Art History
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 -
Professor, Art History
Associate Dean, Faculty Relations & Inclusion, Fine Arts
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 -
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 -
Associate Professor, Theatre
Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism (2018-2023), Fine Arts
International Federation for Theatre Research, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture & Technology, Con
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 -
Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality (New Scholar), Design and Computation Arts
Materiality; Waste Remediation; Waste Infrastructures; Urban Futures; Bio-Inspired Design; Critical Design; Design for Sustainability; Biocomposites; Biomaterials; Active Materials; Surfaces and Scaffolds -
Professor, Art History
Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Curatorial Studies and Decolonizing Art Institutions (Tier 1)
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas
Graduate Program Director (GPD), as of July 1, 2023, Art History
ethnocultural art histories, global art histories, media arts, curatorial studies, contemporary art, cultural diversity, biennials, screen culture, representation, Asian Canadian, transnationalism -
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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Professor, Creative Arts Therapies
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 -
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. -
Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Primary Investigator (LabLabLab)
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 -
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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Professor, Studio Arts
Professor, Cinema
process philosophy, neurodiversity, research-creation, ProTactile, blackness, ecology -
Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
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 -
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 -
Assistant Professor, Studio Arts
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 -
Associate Professor, Cinema
global media, digital culture, China/Asia, cultural theory, political theory, overdevelopment -
Professor (Film Production); Concordia Research Chair in Experimental Nonfiction Practices, Cinema
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Associate Professor, Art History
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 -
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 -
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 -
Distinguished Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
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 -
Professor Emeritus, 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 -
Professor, Art History
Contemporary Art, Canadian Art since the 1960s, Landscape, Art and Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Urban Art and Culture -
Associate Professor, Theatre
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 -
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 -
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices, Art Education
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 -
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 -
Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Inclusion, Fine Arts
Distinguished University Research Professor, Cinema
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 -
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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Professor, Marketing
3M National Teaching Fellow
Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies