Undergraduate Faculty
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Hugh Hodges
Chair, Cultural Studies
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 134.1 ext. 7732, hughhodges@trentu.ca
Research Interests: African, West Indian, Black British and South Asian literature, oral traditions and popular music, postcolonial theory.
Martin Arnold
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
BMus (Alberta), MMus (Victoria), PhD (Victoria)
Traill College, Scott House 211, martinarnold@trentu.ca
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 Marion Barr
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Bachelor of Arts & Science
PhD (Queen's)
Traill College, Scott House, jessicabarr@trentu.ca
Jonathan Bordo
Professor, Cultural Studies
MA (McGill and Alberta), MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale)
Traill College, Scott House 206, ext. 6019, jbordo@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Cultural history and theory grounded in the philosophical, scientific, religious and aesthetic culture of early modernity (1450–1710) with special interest between picturing, testimony, institutions of memory, and the interdisciplinary study of landscape.
Victoria de Zwaan
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Trent), MA (McGill) PhD (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 111, ext. 6092, vdezwaan@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Experimental and speculative fiction, literary theory, cultural theory, history and development of cultural studies, adaptation studies, aesthetics.
Kelly Egan
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Carleton), MA (York/Ryerson), MFA (Bard), PhD (York/Ryerson)
Traill College, Scott House 203, ext. 6042, kellyegan@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Avant-garde cinema, media arts, media archaeology, film preservation and archival theory, aesthetics, visual culture, materiality.
Hugh Elton
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Sheffield), DPhil (Oxford)
Lady Eaton College, LEC S107, ext. 7838, hughelton@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Politics and culture in the late Roman near east.
Michael Epp
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
BA (Saskatchewan), MA (McGill), PhD (Alberta)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 122, ext. 6252, michaelepp@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Violent labor, Irish republicanism, American literature and culture, emotion and affect, and theories of publics.
Ihor Junyk
Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
Coordinator, Journalism and Creative Writing
BA Hons. (UWO), MA (Queen’s), PhD (University of Chicago)
Durham Campus, ext. 6052, ihorjunyk@trentu.ca
Liam Mitchell
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)
Traill College, Scott House 201, ext. 6072, liammitchell@trentu.ca
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)
Durham Campus, Room 164, ext. 5030, aoconnor@trentu.ca
Anne Pasek
Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment
BA (University of Alberta), MA (McGill), PhD (New York University)
Traill College, Scott House, annepasek@trentu.ca
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)
Traill College, Scott House 205, ext. 6075, jamespenney@trentu.ca
Research Interests: James Penney is a cultural theorist whose work is situated at the various intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy.
Joshua Synenko
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Media Studies
Co-Director, Cultural Studies Graduate Programs
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
Traill College, Scott House 212, ext. 6164, joshuasynenko@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Digital culture, Infrastructure, Media theory, Memory studies, Space, Visual studies
Part-Time Faculty
Brent Bellamy
bbellamy@trentu.ca
Christopher Laursen
christopherlaursen@trentu.ca
Jeremy Leipert
jeremyleipert@trentu.ca
Ian McLachlan
imclachlan@trentu.ca
Traill College, Wallis Hall 103.1
Research Interests: History of theatre, performance theory, play writing, trade, and the exchange of technology in pre-historic Southeast Asia.
Michael Morse
mmorse@trentu.ca
Research Interests: The fundamental concepts of music sociology, the history of ideas (Schmitt, Weber, Foucault), ensemble rhythm, discourse and logical theory (Frege, Wittgenstein, Burke, Saussure), and the principles of dance and song as social action.
Penny Saeedi
pounehsaeedi@trentu.ca
Dale Shin
daleshin@trentu.ca
Jill Staveley
jillstaveley@trentu.ca
Matthew Thors-Waples
mattwaples@trentu.ca
Rob Winslow
robertwinslow@trentu.ca
Traill College, Wallis Hall 103.1
Research Interests: Local, regional and Canadian history for the creation of environmentally-staged theatre, the Jesuits in New France in the first half of the 17th century.
Emeritus & Retired Faculty
Zsuzsa Baross, Professor Emerita
zbaross@trentu.ca
Richard Dellamora, Professor Emeritus
rdellamora@trentu.ca
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, Professor Emerita
ermarth@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