Paul Gabias, PhD, LLD
Associate Professor
Visual perception, haptic perception, audition, gustation, olfaction, cognition, evolutionary psychology, ecological approach to perception, public education about blindness, psychological aspects of advocacy, rehabilitation, health, stress management, picture perception, wellness, blindness, guide dog training, drawing development
Stephen Hunt, MFA CreWri
Adjunct Professor
Theatre, criticism, cultural, diversity, white, guys, race
Prof. Alessandra Santos, PhD
Associate Professor
Chair of Latin American Studies
Brazil, Brazilian literature and culture, Brazilian cinema, Brazilian music, Brazilian art, Brazilian current affairs, Amazon rain forest, Latin American literature, Latin American cinema,
Jennifer Kramer, PhD
Associate Professor
First Nations of the Northwest Coast, visual culture, art market economies, identity production, representation, repatriation, cultural property, aboriginal cultural tourism, collaborative and critical museology
Susan Crichton, PhD
Associate Dean
Educational technology, coding, maker movement, teacher education, teacher education in challenging contexts, teacher education in developing countries
George Belliveau, PhD
Professor of Theatre Education
Drama, theatre, arts-based research, applied theatre, military veterans, research-based theatre, men’s health, creativity, education innovation
Christine Evans, PhD
Lecturer in Film Studies
Film theory, film-philosophy, critical theory, love, love and cinema, Lacanian psychoanalysis, cinema and psychoanalysis, representation, cinema and popular culture, film and philosophy, film and culture, Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Lacan
Patrick Rizzotti
Assistant Professor of Scenic and Production Design
Theatre, theatre design, scenic design, production design, film design, devised theatre, virtual reality, AR, augmented reality, mixed reality, XR, site specific, storytelling, narrative
Christopher Patterson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Video games, digital media, critical race theory, queer theory, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, Oceania, tourism, The Philippines, literature, Asian North America, American empire, multiculturalism, colonization, creative writing, fiction, speculative fiction, travel writing, travel, migration, diaspora
Shannon Leddy
Associate Professor
Indigenous art, Indigenous education, education, teacher education, anti-racist education, arts education, decolonizing education, Indigenizing education, sustainability education, decolonizing curriculum, Indigenous pedagogy, humour in education,