Sharalyn Orbaugh
Professor and Graduate Advisor
Associate, IGRSJ
Modern Japanese culture (literature, film, manga, animation, kamishibai), East Asian women’s issues, anti-racist pegagogy
Jessica Stites Mor, PhD
Associate Professor
Latin American history, international solidarity
Toph Marshall
Professor
popular culture, comics, games, science fiction, television, superheroes, Greek poetry, theatre, Homer, tragedy, comedy, modern productions, Roman theatre, comedy, tragedy, modern productions, improvisation
Nathan Hesselink, BM, MA, PhD
Professor of Ethnomusicology
British rock music, popular music, ethnomusicology, rhythm, Radiohead, The Police
Gage Averill, PhD
Dean
Popular music, Caribbean music, barbershop harmony, sound, music and power, music and politics, ethnomusicology, world music
Kim Snowden, PhD
Lecturer
Folk & fairy tales, social justice & feminism, vampires in popular culture, monstrosity in literature & film, science fiction & fantasy, young-adult literature, contemporary fairy tales, fairy-tale film, social media, television, film & pop culture, social networks, social networking
Jon Beasley-Murray, PhD in Literature (Duke)
Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies; Chair, Latin American Studies Program
Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Central America, Mexico, politics, political theory, cultural studies, literature, culture, film, history, the Left, revolution, revolutionary movements, populism, civil society, affect, habit, multitude, posthegemony, educational technology, blogs, Wikipedia
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
Prof. Hyung-Gu Lynn
AECL/KECPO Chair in Korean Research
Editor, Pacific Affairs
South Korea, North Korea, Japan, politics, popular culture, society,
Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD
Professor
Modern Chinese language, culture, history, literature, and cinema, modern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, undergraduate research, graduate research, research methodology, fraud, translation, celebrity culture in Asia,
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,
Janice Stewart, PhD
CSIS Chair
Sexuality, gender, critical theory, social media, rhetoric, North American pop culture, anti-racist pedagogy, equity, diversity, social networks, social networking
Ms. Christine D’Onofrio, BFA, MFA
Instructor
Contemporary visual arts, digital media in art, teaching visual arts higher education, photography, moving image, film, print, new media, art & art theory
David Metzer, PhD
Professor
Popular Music, Popular Culture, Classical Music, Jazz, LGBTQ in Popular Culture
Daniel Justice, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture
Indigenous literature, Indigenous Studies, speculative fiction, animal studies, raccoons, badgers
Dr. Lisa Coulthard, PhD
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
film violence, film sound, film music, crime television and film, action cinema, the fight sequence in cinema, stuntwork in cinema, sonic immersion in media, sex in cinema, media violence, American cinema, European cinema, art films, cognitive studies and cinema, film theory, film philosophy, contemporary blockbusters, superhero films,
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
Dr. Alec Beall, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dating, Attraction, Relationships,
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
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