Telescopes, microphones, photography, broadcasting, live streaming and social media have magnified our perceptual powers to explore our inner and outer worlds. They have also profoundly changed the nature and experience of human perception and communication. Researchers focusing on the fine arts, design, literature, material culture, and social networks, uncover and reflect upon these transformations; the new modes of aesthetic engagement and communication they engender and the disruptions that can accompany them.
RESEARCHERS BY DEPARTMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY
Marko Zivkovic, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Anthropology of Art and Science (esp. neuroscience), History, sociology and philosophy of science, Social life of things, Ethnography of the Balkans, Mediterranean, East/Central Europe and Japan, Symbolic and performative dimensions of politics, Ethnography of socialism and post-socialism
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/marko-zivkovic
ART & DESIGN
Sean Caulfield, Centennial Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Studio Art with a focus in Printmaking, Drawing, Artist's Books and Inter-Media
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/sean-caulfield
Cezary Gajewski, Chair, Department of Art & Design, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Industrial design process, human computer interaction, virtual reality environments, form and function, visual and spatial reasoning in design, design theories and methods, 3-D form, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, design education
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/cezary-gajewski
Joan Greer, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: The History of Art, Design and Visual Culture from the 18th century to the present; history and theory of sustainable design; Late 19th-/early 20th-century European art and design with a special focus on Holland and Belgium.
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/joan-greer
Gillian Harvey, Assistant Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Visual Communication Design, Information Design, Typography + Document Design, Wayfinding + Signage, Design for Decision Making, Social Marketing
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/gillian-harvey
Robert Lederer, Associate Professor,
Coordinator, Industrial Design
Areas of Teaching and Research: Industrial Design, Medical Design
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/robert-lederer
Natalie Loveless, Assistant Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Visual and Performance Studies; Psychoanalysis; Literary, Feminist and Queer Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Radical and Critical Pedagogy; Feminist Art; New Genres; Intervention; Performance and Action Art; Art as Social Practice; Practice-Led Research and Research-Creation
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/natalie-loveless
Lianne McTavish, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: History of early modern visual culture, history of medicine, history of the body, critical museum theory, cultural studies, Early modern French visual culture with a specialization in images of health, healing, childbirth and anatomical dissection; history of museums with a specialization in critical museum theory
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/lianne-mctavish
Marilène Oliver, Assistant Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Studio Art with a focus in Printmaking, Sculpture, Video and Intermedia, Digital medical imaging and contemporary art
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/marilene-oliver
Gavin Renwick, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Visual Thinking and Communication; Participatory Design; Practice-led Research; Sustainable Design; Cold Climate Design; Inter-Disciplinarity; Post-Colonial Aesthetics; Visual Culture; Indigenous Cultural Policy; Indigenous and Euro-Canadian Knowledge Parity; Circumpolar Studies; The Role of Art, Design and Architecture in Cultural and Political Self-Determination
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/gavin-renwick
Brad Necyk, Lecturer,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Art + Medicine
https://directory.ualberta.ca/person/bnecyk
DRAMA
Selena Couture, Assistant Professor,
New Works Festival Coordinator
Areas of Teaching and Research: Canadian Indigenous Theatre, Performance and Decolonizing practices; Land, Place Names and Performance; Indigenous Language Revitalization Practices; Colonial Performance and the Construction of Whiteness; Archival Practices; Resource Extraction and Refusal; Theoretical Approaches to Theatre and Performance; Canadian Theatre; Canadian Indigenous Performance; Theatre and Colonial Modernity; Decolonizing Research Methodologies in Performance Studies and Settler Responsibilities
https://www.ualberta.ca/drama/our-people/faculty
Donia Mounsef, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Modern & Contemporary French/Francophone Theatre, Politics, Gender & Performance, Intermediality & Adaption theory, Performance as research.
https://www.ualberta.ca/drama/our-people/faculty/dr-donia-mounsef
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Christopher Lupke, Professor, Chair of East Asian Studies
Areas of Teaching and Research: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Cinema, and Culture.
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/christopher-lupke
Daniel Fried, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Classical Chinese Literature and Intellectual history, Conceptualization Contextualization of reading and writing practices in ancient and medieval China, and Relations to European Modes of Textuality
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/daniel-fried
ENGLISH & FILM STUDIES
Jaimie Baron, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Film and Media Theory, Audiovisual Appropriation, Experimental Film and Video, Documentary Film and Video, the History of Technology and the Mediation of Human Experience, Digital Media, Critical Race Studies, Media and Criminal Justice, Remix Culture
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jaimie-baron
Jordan Abel, Assistant Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Creative Writing, Indigenous Literatures, Indigenous poetry and poetics, Intergenerational Trauma and Residential School narratives, Digital Humanities (text analysis), and Research Creation
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jordan-abel
Jonathan Cohn, Assistant Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Digital Culture and History, Critical Internet Studies, Film and Media, Postfeminist and Postracial discourses
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jonathan-cohn
Elena Del Rio, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Cinema and Philosophies of the Body in Technology, Performance, and Affect in Cinema and Theory, Film Analysis and Film Theory, Deleuze and Cinema
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/elena-del-rio
Danielle Fuller, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Reading Communities and Cultures of Reading in the USA, Canada and UK, Making Digital Things – Building as Reading Research, Atlantic Canadian Literary Culture, Mixed Methods Research and Feminist Epistemology
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/danielle-fuller
Roger Graves, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Writing studies, Business, Professional, Technical and Academic Writing
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/roger-graves
Michael Litwack, Assistant Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Comparative Media Theory; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Digital Studies; Screen Cultures; Genealogies of Media and Mediation; Transnational U.S. American Studies; Feminist and Queer Studies; Critical Theory (Black Cultural Theory, Technology, Post/humanisms
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/michael-litwack
Harvey Quamen, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Science and Technology studies, 19th- and 20th-Century Literary Studies, Cyberculture
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/harvey-quamen
Billy-Ray Belcourt, PhD Student,
Research: The Indigenous Paranormal: Non-Being and Freedom in the Aftermath of the Long Twentieth Century
https://www.ualberta.ca/english-film-studies/people/phd-students
Megan Farnel, PhD Student,
Research: Loving Labour Online: Affective Materialism and Digital Labour
https://www.ualberta.ca/english-film-studies/people/phd-students
Alexandra Bunten-Walberg, PhD Student,
Research: Historicity, Ethics, and Politics in Posthumanist Discourses and Speculative Fiction
https://www.ualberta.ca/english-film-studies/people/phd-students
Dorothy Woodman, Sessional Lecturer,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Neoliberalism, Marxist theory, Gender theory, Disability theory; Intersections of race, gender, and illness ; Community Service Learning: Pedagogy and Social ethics; Bodies and Subjectivities in Marvel’s Superheroes
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/dorothy-woodman
Sarah Krotz, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Canadian literature, especially 19th-century, Literary Cartography, Geopoetics, Geocriticism, Natural Writing, Ecocriticism, Colonialism, Settlement; Treaty Relationships
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/sarah-krotz
HISTORY & CLASSICS
Sean Gouglas, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Digital Humanities; The relationship between universities and the computer game industry in Canada as it relates to curriculum and technology transfer; gender in the making and playing of video games
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/sean-gouglas
Shaun McKinnon, PhD student,
Research: Mythologia Christianarum: Understanding the art of early Christian sarcophagi and archaeological methods and theory, semiotics and visual language
https://www.ualberta.ca/history-classics/people/graduate-students
MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURAL STUDIES
Astrid Ensslin, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Digital media/culture, Literary Studies and Applied Linguistics, Digital Fiction Research and Body Image Psychology; Speech Accents in Videogames
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/astrid-ensslin
Elisabeth Le, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Discourse Studies, including Media Discourse, Political Discourse, and Intercultural Discourse
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/elisabeth-le
Reisa Klein, Lecturer,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Feminist Media Studies and theory, Digital Cultures and Tattooing Practices, particularly regarding to mastectomies.
https://www.ualberta.ca/modern-languages-and-cultural-studies/people/adjunct-faculty
Victoria Ruetalo, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Literary & Critical Theory; Spanish & Latin American
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/victoria-ruetalo
Chris Reyns, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Cultural Studies; Comics Studies; French & Francophone Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Transcultural Studies; Children's Literature; European Studies
https://www.ualberta.ca/modern-languages-and-cultural-studies/people/professors
MUSIC
Brian Fauteux, Assistant Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Popular Music Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Radio Studies, Music/Media Industries, Music Scenes, Sound Studies, Cultural Policy, Community and Independent Media
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/brian-fauteux
Mark Hannesson, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Acoustic Composition, Electroacoustic Composition, Human-Computer Interaction, Improvisation, Visual Representation of Music
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/mark-hannesson
Scott Smallwood, Associate Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Sound Art / Installation, Field Recording, Acoustic Ecology, Phonography, Solarsonics, Interactive Technologies & Games
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/scott-smallwood
Michael Frishkopf, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Music and Global health; Social Network Theory; Digital Music Repositories; Music Information Retrieval; Music in Cyberworlds
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/michael-frishkopf
PHILOSOPHY
Geoffrey Rockwell, Professor, Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study
Areas of Teaching and Research: Textual Visualization and Analysis, and Computing in the Humanities, Philosophy of Technology
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/geoffrey-rockwell
SOCIOLOGY
Sourayan Mookerjea, Associate Professor, Director, Intermedia Research Studio,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Commons Theory, Decolonizing Critical Theory, Intermedia Research Creation
Development Dispossession
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/sourayan-mookerjea
WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES
Beth Capper, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Research: History and Theory of Feminist Media and Performance in relation to Labour, Social movements, and the Politics of Aesthetics
https://www.ualberta.ca/womens-gender-studies/people/post-docs
Felice Lifshitz, Professor,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Medieval Cultural, Religious and Intellectual History, “Medieval” Films, Feminism and Religion, Representations of Girls and Women, Feminism and Historical Film
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/felice-lifshitz
Michelle Meagher, Associate Professor and Chair,
Areas of Teaching and Research: Feminist Art and Art History (esp. late 20th century North American) Body studies; Feminist Cultural Studies; Ageing and Art; Feminist generational politics; and the Feminist seventies.
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/michelle-meagher