Faculty

Associate Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: music theatre and opera in Canada & US; musicology; performance studies;  historiography; popular culture; memory theory; intermediality.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: scenography; theatre production design; interaction of architecture, sound, and performance design. 

Associate Professor

French Studies

Keywords: Haitian literature and history; Black diaspora and anticolonialism; Black/Indigenous relations; Haitian solidarity and community with the Taíno, Indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola; Spanish colonialism; national narratives and mythologies.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: Canadian film industry; urban film cultures; film festivals; event cinema and new modes of film distribution; cinema and intermediality.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: histories, reconstructions, and new performances of late 20th century electronic and experimental music; electroacoustic composition practices including field recording, studio recording, synthesis, processing and mixing; building sensor-based instruments and controllers; sound and intermedia installation work; pop music recording and production.

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: twentieth century Canadian social movements in a transnational context; histories of global development; settler colonialism; race, gender, and decolonization; anticolonial and decolonial Indigenous social movements. 

Associate Professor

Gender Studies

Keywords: feminist, trans, and queer poetics; psychoanalysis and affect theory; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights; literatures and theory.  

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: clowning; theatre; the comedic and absurd as approaches to witnessing violence beyond an aesthetic of injury and spectacle; the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in translating stories of violence; creative non-fiction; the role of the imagination in learning and development; Canada's involvement in the development of the atomic bomb. 

Associate Professor

History

Keywords: history of the Middle East and Islam; market systems, the origins of global capitalism, consumerism, neoliberalism; theories of state formation.

Assistant Professor

Department of French Studies

Keywords: Women literature, creative writing, translation, Quebec’s literature, black studies, contemporary feminism. 

Assistant Professor

History

Keywords: ancient South Asia; South Asian religion; forensics in colonial India; Indian cinema; horror films; food history.

Associate Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: linguistic anthropology; Indigenous language revitalization in Brazil and Canada; community-based research and collaborative ethnography.