Richard Cavell, PhD
Professor
Co-Founder, Bachelor in Media Studies Program
Marshall McLuhan, media theory, Canadian cultural production, media studies, Canadian cultural studies, politics and aesthetics
Dr. Mary Chapman, PhD, MA, BA Hon. English
Professor, Dept. of English
Academic Director, Public Humanities Hub
US literature, 19th-century women writers, suffrage, women in politics, public humanities, humanities education, Sui Sin Far, Onoto Watanna, Chinese Canadian history, literary canon, Chinese Canadian writers, modernism, poetry,
Margot Leigh Butler
Academic Director
Vancouver Downtown Eastside, community education, free community education with Downtown Eastside residents who experience marginalization, poverty, addictions and education, community-university relationships, representation, cultural studies, critical and creative pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, site-specific art, collectives, implicatedness, activism
Mary Lynn Young, PhD
Associate Professor; Associate Dean
Sociology of the media, gender, media economics, representations, online news, media and crime
Kedrick James
Instructor
Secondary education, literacy, teacher education, multimodal arts, spoken word, poetry, writing assessment, data feeds, automated language generators, language filters, search engines, spam email, vinyl media, information environments, remixing, noise, cultural recycling
Jessica Stites Mor, PhD
Associate Professor
Latin American history, international solidarity
Mary Bryson
Professor
Technology, media, cultural studies, gender, queer theory, deviance studies, post-colonial pedagogies
Jennifer Shapka, PhD
Associate Professor
Adolescent development, social development, media, Internet, cyberbullying and victimization, online privacy behaviours, parenting
Eric M. Meyers
Assistant Professor
Youth online behavior, information seeking, web search, libraries, public libraries, school libraries, academic libraries, learning, virtual worlds, collaboration, social networks, new media, digital literacy, information literacy
Doris Baltruschat, PhD
Author, Educator
Media/digital literacy, stereoscopic (3D), virtual reality and social media, independent film, digital citizenship and media democracy, media ecologies, transmedia storytelling, international co-productions and TV formats, film/TV audience reception, aboriginal media/arctic cinema, social movements, social networks, social networking
Ann Stone, MBA
Lecturer
Marketing, advertising, branding, promotional strategies, food service, franchising
Dr. Alfred Hermida
Professor
Digital journalism, Social media, Media innovation, Journalism startups, Media policy, Data journalism, Not-for-profit journalism, Fake news,
Dr. Eric Li
Associate Professor
social enterprise, social innovation, not-for-profit marketing, pro-social behaviour, multicultural marketing and consumption, consumer well-being, health promotion, consumer privacy, food security, digital marketing, social media marketing, community well-being, sustainable rural communities,
Dr Ayesha S. Chaudhry, PhD
Associate Professor
Islam, Muslims, religion, gender, human rights, intersectionality, race, family and children, discrimination, racism, Islamophobia, social justice
Adam Jones
Professor
Human rights, gender studies, genocide studies, crimes against humanity, media and political transition
Stephen Petrina, PhD
Professor of Media & Technology
Co-Director, Institute of Critical Education Studies
Academic freedom, craft, cultural history, design studies, design and technology, digital literacy, digital media, educational technology and learning technologies, environmental studies, higher education, history of education, history and philosophy of research, history of medicine, history of social sciences, maker movement, media, media studies, learning, open access, research design and methodology, subcultures, science and technology studies (STS), STEM education, technology
Gaoheng Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Italian-Chinese cultural relationships, Chinese migrations to Italy, gender in Italy, Italian media and cinema, Italian literature and culture, Italian colonial and postcolonial cultures, Italian travel and migration literature and cinema
Stephen Hunt, MFA CreWri
Adjunct Professor
Theatre, criticism, cultural, diversity, white, guys, race
Amira Halperin
Research Fellow
Middle Eastern migration, refugees, refugees and technology, Middle Eastern refugees integration in Canada and Europe, migration policy in Canada and Europe, media, radicalization, reconciliation, peace, Israeli politics, Palestinian politics and media
Ervin Malakaj, PhD
Assistant Professor of German Studies
Germany, Austria, Central Europe, literary studies, media studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice education