Get to know your Undergraduate Faculty
Kelly Egan
Chair and Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Carleton), MA (York/TMU), MFA (Bard), PhD (York/Ryerson)
kellyegan@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 6042
Research Interests: Avant-garde cinema, media arts, media archaeology, film preservation and archival theory, aesthetics, visual culture, materiality.
Martin Arnold
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
BMus (Alberta), MMus (Victoria), PhD (Victoria)
martinarnold@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 7173
Research Interests: Experimental music, the cultural politics of the experimental, the wonderful, musical mediations/intertextualities/ecologies, African-American music, Celtic music, narrative and not narrating.
Jessica Barr
Assistant Professor Jessica Marion Barr
BA (Toronto), MA (McMaster), PhD (Queen's)
Coordinator, Bachelor of Arts & Science
jessicabarr@trentu.ca
Lady Eaton College
705-748-1011 x. 7202
Hugh Elton
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Sheffield), DPhil (Oxford)
hughelton@trentu.ca
Lady Eaton College
705-748-1011 x. 7838
Research Interests: Politics and culture in the late Roman near east.
Michael Epp
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Saskatchewan), MA (McGill), PhD (Alberta)
michaelepp@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 6252
Research Interests: Violent labor, Irish republicanism, American literature and culture, emotion and affect, and theories of publics.
Hugh Hodges
Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
Graduate Faculty, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts),
PhD Cultural Studies
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)
hughhodges@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 7733
Research Interests: African, West Indian, Black British and South Asian literature, oral traditions and popular music, postcolonial theory.
Ihor Junyk
Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
Coordinator, Journalism and Creative Writing
BA Hons. (UWO), MA (Queen’s), PhD (University of Chicago)
ihorjunyk@trentu.ca
Durham Campus
705-748-1011 x. 6052
Research Interests: Modernism and the avant-garde; war, trauma, memory (particularly in Ukraine); exile, displacement, diaspora; creative writing; visual culture; popular music
Richard Last
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Ancient Greek and
Roman Studies
BA (York), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto)
richardlast@trentu.ca
Lady Eaton College
705-748-1011 x. 7276
Research Interests: religion and magic in antiquity; voluntary associations; politics and the paranormal in the United States
Liam Mitchell
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Media Studies
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)
liammitchell@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 6072
Research Interests: Game studies, media theory, political theory, cultural politics, social media, Heidegger, Foucault.
Alan O’Connor
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Trinity College, Dublin), MA, PhD (York)
aoconnor@trentu.ca
Durham Campus
705-748-1011 x. 5030
Anne Pasek
Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment
BA (University of Alberta), MA (McGill), PhD (New York University)
annepasek@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 6052,
Research Interests: climate change, energy/environmental humanities, science communication, visual culture, new materialisms, infrastructure, cultural politics
James Penney
Professor, Cultural Studies and French & Francophone Studies
Co-Director, Cultural Studies Graduate Programs
BA, MA (Alberta), PhD (Duke)
jamespenney@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 6075
Research Interests: James Penney is a cultural theorist whose work is situated at the various intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy.
Joshua Synenko
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
Cultural Studies
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
joshsynenko@trentu.ca
Traill College
705-748-1011 x. 6164
Research Interests: cinema studies, media theory, social and political thought, visual culture
Emeritus & Retired Faculty
Zsuzsa Baross, Professor Emerita
zbaross@trentu.ca
Jonathan Bordo, Professor Emeritus
jbordo@trentu.ca
Richard Dellamora, Professor Emeritus
rdellamora@trentu.ca
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, Professor Emerita
ermarth@trentu.ca
Victoria de Zwaan, Professor Emeritus
vdeZwaan@trentu.ca
John Fekete, Professor Emeritus
jfekete@trentu.ca
Veronica Hollinger, Professor Emerita
vhollinger@trentu.ca
Ian McLachlan, Professor Emeritus
imclachlan@trentu.ca
Andrew Wernick, Professor Emeritus
awernick@trentu.ca