Faculty

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.

Associate 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

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. 

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. 

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.

Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy

Keywords: AI ethics, online cultures, AI in science fiction

Other Affiliations: School of Computing

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: Indigenous Studies, Cultural Revitalization and Social Change, Critical Indigenous Theory, Indigenous and State Relations, Critical Prison Studies, Transracial Adoption, Oral History. 

Other Affiliations: Languages, Literature and Cultures