Assistant Professor, Coordinator Media Studies
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
joshuasynenko@trentu.ca
705-748-1011 ext. 6164
Joshua Synenko is an Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Department, and Coordinator of the Media Studies Program at Trent University (Canada). He is Co-Editor of Media Theory Journal. Between 2018-20 he served as President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association.
Dr. Synenko works in the nebulous region between media and geography. His published work explores relationships between cities and mobility (migration, displacement, settlement), cinema and media studies, practice-based research and artistic research, and experimental technologies for social engagement. Dr. Synenko has created a studio-based pedagogy to complement this work with a bridge to collaborative and process-oriented spaces.
Recent publications:
Synenko, J. "Digital Geographies." The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Cultural, Vol. 3: Digitsations, Transformations, and Futures, eds. Sandywell, B. and Hand, M. [Forthcoming 2025].
Synenko, J., and Mergler, A. eds. (2025): “A Research-creation Episteme? Practice-based Research and Institutional Critique." Special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. [in progress]
Synenko, J. (2023): “‘Where Does This World End?’ Space, Time, and Image in Harun Farocki’s Parrallel." Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 14.2, SI: Vibrant Materialities Across Media, Literature, and Theory, ed. Fan. L., and Tschofen, M.: pp. 175-206.
Synenko, J. (2018): “Geolocating Popular Memory: Recorded Images of Hashima Island after Skyfall." Popular Communication, 15(2), SI: Memory and Human Rights, ed. KAiser, S.: pp. 141-153.
Synenko, J. ed. (2021): “Comparatism Now!” Special issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 48.2.
Synenko, J. ed. (2018): “Geospatial Memory.” Special issue of Media Theory, 2.1.