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This directory includes Cultural Studies MA and PHD students and our affiliated faculty. Use the "Filter by" drop-down menu to search only for Faculty, PhD Students or MA Students. The filter can also be used to view students by cohort, based on the year they joined the program.
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Keywords: feminist, trans, and queer poetics; psychoanalysis and affect theory; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights; literatures and theory.
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.
Keywords: history of the Middle East and Islam; market systems, the origins of global capitalism, consumerism, neoliberalism; theories of state formation.
Keywords: Women literature, creative writing, translation, Quebec’s literature, black studies, contemporary feminism.
Keywords: ancient South Asia; South Asian religion; forensics in colonial India; Indian cinema; horror films; food history.
Keywords: linguistic anthropology; Indigenous language revitalization in Brazil and Canada; community-based research and collaborative ethnography.
Keywords: Science and Technology Studies; political economies of pharmaceutical knowledge and more broadly the political economy of knowledge.
Keywords: ecological communities and environmental ethics; social construction of nature; environmental hermeneutics and phenomenology; emotional geographies; ethics of tourism; the place of nature in political and social theory; posthumanism.
Keywords: contemporary art and cultural institutions; contemporary visual and material culture; curatorial studies; cultural diplomacy; transnational cultural brokering; Canadian and North American Studies.
Assistant Professor
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Keywords: Comparative Indigenous literary criticism in Canada and Québec; francophone Indigenous literature; environmental ethics and activism in Indigenous film and literature; Indigenous filmmaking and collaborative research methodologies across the Americas; theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships.
Keywords: contemporary Canadian theatre and performance; audiences as collaborators; participatory, documentary, and immersive theatre; site-specific performance.