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Undergraduate Faculty

Liam MitchellLiam Mitchell

Associate Professor and Chair, Cultural Studies
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)

Traill College, Scott House 201, ext. 6072, liammitchell@trentu.ca

Courses 2020-2021: CUST 2035Y (FW), CUST-COIS 3533H (FA)

Research Interests: Game studies, media theory, political theory, cultural politics, social media, Heidegger, Foucault.

 

Martin ArnoldMartin Arnold

Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
BMus (Alberta), MMus (Victoria), PhD (Victoria)

Traill College, Scott House 211, martinarnold@trentu.ca

Courses 2020-2021: CUST 2045Y (FW), CUST 2547H (FA), CUST 3142H (WI)

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

Courses 2020-2021: CUST 1510H (FA), CUST-ERST 2114H (SU 2021)

 

 

Jonathan BordoJonathan Bordo

Professor, Cultural Studies
MA (McGill and Alberta), MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale)

Traill College, Scott House 206, ext. 6019, jbordo@trentu.ca 

Courses 2020-2021: CUST 2016Y (FW), CUST 3556H/4556H (WI)

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 ZwaanVictoria de Zwaan

Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Trent),  MA (McGill) PhD (Toronto)  

Traill College, Wallis Hall 111, ext. 6092, vdezwaan@trentu.ca

Courses 2020-2021: CUST 1500H (FA), CUST 4523H (FA)

Research Interests: Experimental and speculative fiction, literary theory, cultural theory, history and development of cultural studies, adaptation studies, aesthetics. 

 

 

Kelly EganKelly 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 2020-2021: CUST 2186H (FA and WI), CUST 3111Y (FW), CUST 4586H (WI)

Research Interests: Avant-garde cinema, media arts, media archaeology, film preservation and archival theory, aesthetics, visual culture, materiality.

 

Hugh EltonHugh 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 EppMichael 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.

On Sabbatical 2020-2021

 

 

Hugh HodgesHugh Hodges

Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
Chair, 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.

On Sabbatical 2020-2021

 

Ihor JunykIhor 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

Courses 2020-2021 (all in Durham): CUST 2582H, CUST 3526H/4526H

 

 

Alan O'ConnorAlan O’Connor

Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Trinity College, Dublin), MA, PhD (York)

Durham Campus, Room 164, ext. 5030, aoconnor@trentu.ca

Courses 2020-2021 (all in Durham): CUST 2535H (WI), CUST 3531 (WI), CUST 3532H (FA), CUST 3535H (FA)

 

 

 

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

Courses 2020-2021: CUST 1535H (WI)

Research Interests: climate change, energy/environmental humanities, science communication, visual culture, new materialisms, infrastructure, cultural politics

 

 

James PenneyJames 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: Cultural theory (psychoanalysis and Marxism), world literature and cinema, queer theory.

 

Joshua SynenkoJoshua 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

Courses 2020-2021: CUST 1535H (FA), CUST 2581H (FA), CUST 4136H (WI), CUST 4535H (FA)

Research Interests: Digital culture, Infrastructure, Media theory, Memory studies, Space, Visual studies

 

 

Part-Time Faculty

Brent Bellamy
bbellamy@trentu.ca
Courses 2020-2021: CUST 2029Y (FW), CUST-ENGL 4703H (FA)

 

Christopher Laursen
christopherlaursen@trentu.ca
Courses 2020-2021: CUST 3538H (FA, Durham)

 

Jeremy Leipert
jeremyleipert@trentu.ca
Courses 2020-2021: CUST-COIS 3533H (FA, Durham)
 

Ian McLachlan
imclachlan@trentu.ca
Traill College, Wallis Hall 103.1
Courses 2020-2021: CUST 3573H (FA)

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
Courses 2020-2021: CUST 3550H/4550H (FA)

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
Courses 2020-2021: CUST 2552H (FA)

 

Dale Shin
daleshin@trentu.ca
 

Jill Staveley
jillstaveley@trentu.ca
Courses 2020-2021: CUST 3139H (WI)
 

Matthew Thors-Waples
mattwaples@trentu.ca
 

Rob Winslow
robertwinslow@trentu.ca
Wallis Hall 103.1
Courses 2020-2021: 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.

 

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

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