Faculty

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: popular music; visual culture; critical theory; music and violence.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: media art; art and feminism; animation history and theory; experimental music; magic and the occult; speculative futurisms; human-animal relationships. 

Associate Professor

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Keywords: poverty; food; the body; health; childhood; qualitative research methods.

Director of Collections & Public Programs

Aga Khan Museum

Keywords: cultural diplomacy; museums; art history and archaeology, especially Chinese art and archaeology; posthumanism.

Assistant Professor

Geography & Planning

Keywords: global urban infrastructure; social reproduction; bioeconomies; urban political ecology; critical development studies; health sociology; critical race feminist geographies.

Associate Professor

Classics

Keywords: cultural relations between Roman soldiers and Indigenous peoples; religious practices of Roman soldiers; Nabataean religion and culture; ancient bath-houses and bathing technology; petroglyphs and graffiti from all cultures; history of archaeology and attitudes towards cultural heritage.

Assistant 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.

Associate Professor

Art History

Keywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art with a focus on public art, sound art, and text-based work; sound studies; social arts practice; sensory studies; practice-based research in the arts.

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.