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Get to know your Undergraduate Faculty

Hugh HodgesHugh Hodges

Chair, Cultural Studies
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
Graduate Faculty, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts),
PhD Cultural Studies

BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)

Traill College, Scott House 212, ext. 7733, hughhodges@trentu.ca

Research Interests: African, West Indian, Black British and South Asian literature, oral traditions and popular music, postcolonial theory.

 

 

Martin ArnoldMartin Arnold

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

Traill College, Wallis Hall 109, 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 BordoJonathan 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 ZwaanVictoria 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 EganKelly Egan

Associate 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 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
Director, MA & PhD Cultural Studies
BA (Saskatchewan), MA (McGill), PhD (Alberta)

Traill College, Scott House 211, ext. 6252, michaelepp@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Violent labor, Irish republicanism, American literature and culture, emotion and affect, and theories of publics.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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'ConnorAlan 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 204, ext 6052, annepasek@trentu.ca

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: James Penney is a cultural theorist whose work is situated at the various intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy.

 

 

Joshua SynenkoJoshua Synenko

Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Media Studies
Co-Director, Cultural Studies Graduate Programs
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)

Traill College, Wallis Hall 104, ext. TBA, joshuasynenko@trentu.ca

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

 

 

 

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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