Faculty

Keywords: Francophone cultural history; Québec/Acadia/French Canada; North American popular culture; commemoration/memory/historiography; festivals and festivities; material culture; speculative and science fiction. 

Assistant Professor

Film and Media

Keywords: religion, atheism, media, affect, divination, algorithmic culture

Director and Curator

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Keywords: process-based, participatory curatorial practice; art as a form of social and civic engagement; “in-reachâ€� (engaged institutional practice); transforming the nature and function of the traditional art gallery through work with communities and non-western models of cultural traditions; BIPOC cultural ecologies and the future of museological practice.

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: political ecology; critical agrarian studies; social justice; environmental sustainability; neoliberalism, the state, and collective action; peasant, Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities; water governance; social technologies; Latin America.

Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Keywords: disability and assistive technologies; human-machine interfaces; universal design.

Associate Professor

Philosophy, Gender Studies

Keywords: intersectionality, diaspora, and feminist thought; bioethics and applied ethics; Jewish philosophy; Emmanuel Levinas; narrative reasoning; critical thinking; pornography and objectification. 

Associate Curator, Care & Relations

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Keywords: global Indigenous and racialised museology; animate materialism; decolonial Marxism; trans/queer visual and material culture; performance and sound art theory. 

Keywords: feminist, Queer, and Trans theory and cultural production; history of sexuality; public history; digital history; affect theory; audio-visual preservation and digitization; community-based archives.

Associate Professor

French Studies

Keywords: medical humanities and narrative medicine; ageing, dying, and palliative care; twentieth-century French literature. 

Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: social history of Southern Africa; gender and sexuality, especially cultural constructions of masculinity and non-normative sexualities; environment and health; HIV/AIDS; pedagogy for development (e.g., methods and ethics of work-study abroad programs); the politics of public history.