Undergraduate Faculty
Liam Mitchell
Associate Professor, Chair of Cultural Studies
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)
Traill College, Scott House 201, ext. 6072, liammitchell@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2035Y (FW), CUST-COIS 3533H (FA)
Research Interests: Game studies, media theory, political theory, cultural politics, social media, Heidegger, Foucault.
Martin Arnold
Assistant Professor
BMus (Alberta), MMus (Victoria), PhD (Victoria)
Traill College, Scott House 211, martinarnold@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2045Y (FW), CUST 2547H (WI and SU), CUST 3143H (FA), CUST 3543H (FA), ENGL 3607H (WI)
Jonathan Bordo
Professor, Cultural Studies
MA (McGill and Alberta), MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale)
Traill College, Scott House 206, ext. 6019, jbordo@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 3556H (FA), CUST 4515Y (FA)
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
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 1500H (FA), CUST 3529H (FA), CUST 4523H (FA)
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
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2186H (FA), CUST 2511H (WI), CUST 2582H (WI), CUST 3186H (WI), CUST 4538H (FA)
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, English Literature and Cultural Studies, Director, Cultural Studies Doctoral Program and Director, M.A. Theory, Culture and Politics
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.
Hugh Hodges
Associate Professor and Chair, English Literature and Cultural Studies
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.
Ihor Junyk
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
BA Hons. (UWO), MA (Queen’s), PhD (University of Chicago)
Traill College, Scott House 204, ext. 6052, ihorjunyk@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 1520H (FA), CUST 3526H/4526H (WI)
Alan O’Connor
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Trinity College, Dublin), MA, PhD (York)
Durham Campus, Room 164, ext. 5030, aoconnor@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020 (all in Durham): CUST 1535H (FA), CUST 2535H (WI), CUST 3531 (WI), CUST 3532H (FA), CUST 3535H (FA)
James Penney
Professor, Cultural Studies and French & Francophone Studies
BA, MA (Alberta), PhD (Duke)
Traill College, Scott House 205, ext. 6075, jamespenney@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2551H (FA), CUST 3582H (WI), CUST-FREN 4611H (FA), FREN 3201H (WI)
Research Interests: Cultural theory (psychoanalysis and Marxism), world literature and cinema, queer theory.
Joshua Synenko
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies, and Coordinator of Media Studies
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
Traill College, Scott House 212, ext. 6164, joshuasynenko@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 1535H (FA and WI), CUST 2581H (FA), CUST 3531H (WI), CUST 4136H (FA), CUST 4535H (WI)
Research Interests: Digital culture, Infrastructure, Media theory, Memory studies, Space, Visual studies
Part-Time Faculty
Jessica Marion Barr
jessicabarr@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST-ERST 2114H (FA)
Brent Bellamy
bbellamy@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST-ENGL 4703H (FA)
Troy Bordun
troybordun@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2582H (WI, Durham)
Mac Fenwick
mfenwick@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2528H
Dorothea (Kelly) Hines
kellyhines@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2016Y (WI)
Eric Lehman
ericlehman@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 3538H (WI)
Jeremy Leipert
jeremyleipert@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST-COIS 3533H (FA, Durham), CUST 3133H (FA)
Jon Lockyer
jonathanlockyer2@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 1510H (WI)
Ian McLachlan
imclachlan@trentu.ca
Traill College, Wallis Hall 103.1
Courses 2019-2020: CUST-INDG 1570H (FA), CUST 2526H (WI)
Research Interests:History of theatre, performance theory, play writing, trade, and the exchange of technology in pre-historic Southeast Asia.
Peters Mersereau
petersmersereau@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2581H (FA, Durham)
Amalia Moir
amaliamoir@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2016Y (FW)
Michael Morse
mmorse@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 3545H (FA), CUST 3547H/4547H (WI)
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.
Dale Shin
daleshin@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 1500H (WI, Durham), CUST 1535H (WI, Durham)
Jill Staveley
jillstaveley@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 3139H (WI)
Matthew Thors-Waples
mattwaples@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 2186H (WI)
Laura Thursby
laurathursby@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 3138H (WI, Durham)
Rob Winslow
robertwinslow@trentu.ca
Wallis Hall 103.1
Courses 2019-2020: CUST 3175Y (FW)
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.
Joe Yang
yaochongyang@trentu.ca
Courses 2019-2020: CUST-COIS 3533H (FA)
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