Faculty

Assistant Professor

Environmental Studies

Keywords: environmental politics, governance, and regulation; ecological economics; green industrial policy; trade and investment agreements; corporate power and accountability.

Associate Professor

Gender Studies, English

Keywords: comics and sequential art, feminism, queer theory, reproductive justice, theatre and performance, science fiction, fantasy, disability studies, art activism

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: transformative social movements; cultures of resistance and dissent in the larger Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Mediterranean regions; politics of alliance across generation, gender or sexual identity, religion, ethnicity, class; feminist ethnography; community-based research.

Keywords: forced migration and involuntary displacement; necropolitics; bio-politics of citizenship; violence, human rights, and humanitarian intervention; postcolonial literatures; literary theory (Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism and psychoanalysis); critical race theories and multiculturalism; Adorno and the Frankfurt School; global cinema; race, gender and sexuality studies.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: visual and popular cultures; genre cinemas; horror films & monster movies; feminist-queer-trans histories of Classical Hollywood; fan-based reading practices; superhero comics; histories of eugenic medicine and criminality; curricular design and pedagogical strategies.

Associate Professor

Art History

Keywords: historic and contemporary Indigenous arts of North America; curatorial and museum studies; colonialism and visual cultures; marketing of culture; arts of the Arctic; Inuit art.

Assistant Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: playwriting, dramaturgy, multi-disciplinary performance; dance and physical theatre; African diaspora and mixed-race studies; Afrofuturism; Jewish, queer, and feminist studies; research creation.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: acting, directing, and playwriting; Canadian theatre history; Shakespeare. 

Professor

Drama & Music

 Keywords: North Indian classical dance; classical and vernacular musics and dance; colonialism and postcolonialism; gender; musical and cultural exchange; ethnography; South Asia.

Associate Professor

English

Keywords: contemporary literature; ecocriticism and eco-cultural studies; climate collapse and environmental disaster; permaculture, biodynamics, and agroecology; technophilia and technophobia; risk theory; animals and animality.   

Keywords: African Studies, particularly the Horn of Africa; colonialism, decolonization, revolutions, and nationalist movements; peace, conflict and security studies; Eritrea, Somalia, East Timor; qualitative methods. 

 

Term Adjunct

Fine Art

Keywords: contemporary art theory and practice; interdisciplinary arts; drawing, collaborative and socially engaged arts; research-creation; environmental humanities; art and environment; art-science intersections; more than human worlds, edible plants, and posthumanities; visual cultural studies; curatorial practice.