Faculty

Assistant Professor

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Keywords: semiotics; intertextuality; information circulation and sovereignty; Indigenous linguistic and cultural reclamation; functional approaches to grammar and discourse

Keywords: Indigenous literatures; contemporary Canadian literature; Indigenous governance and its pursuit through art; multiculturalism as an ideal and practice; hockey culture; masculinity theory; literary activism.

Keywords: Black Studies; theories of race; cultural geographies; anti-colonial studies; knowledge and liberation; Black Arts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art); Sylvia Wynter. 

Keywords: Black Atlantic cultures; politics and intellectual traditions; diasporic identities and decolonial praxis; migration and multiculturalism; public history and humanities.

Other Affiliations: Black Studies; Gender Studies; History

Associate Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: Jewish Latin American literature; Latin American women’s literature; Latin American film.

Associate Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: curatorial studies; cinema and digital/new media; curatorship; digital replicas and cultural heritage; projection technologies.

Associate Professor

Sociology

Keywords: Science & Technology Studies; political sociology; ethnography; security and surveillance technology; science and state-making; artificial intelligence, algorithms, human dignity, and social justice. 

Professor and Associate Dean

Faculty of Education

Professor

Art History & Art Conservation

Keywords: French, Scandinavian, and German art of the 19th and early 20th centuries; history of museums and collecting; the art of psychiatric patients; printmaking; intersections between art and science; critical theory, in particular feminist and critical race theory; historiography; medical humanities; visual and material culture studies. 

Associate Professor

Gender Studies

Keywords: Queer Studies; feminist and queer ethnography; histories and practices of anti-racist and anti-colonial activisms; white settler colonialism and Indigenous politics; activist research methods.

Associate Professor

English

Keywords: African American literature and culture; Black Studies; Sound Studies; Performance Studies.

Associate Professor

Religion

Keywords: discursive construction of spirituality and religion; concepts of nonreligion and secularity; new religious movements; ritual; religion and/as media; contemporary and conceptual art; museums; everyday aesthetics; information overload, social media, and surveillance cultures; boredom and spirituality.