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Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
joshuasynenko@trentu.ca
705-748-1011 ext. 6164
Joshua Synenko is Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Cultural Studies Department at Trent University. He is Co-Editor of Media Theory, an international, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal, and a Corresponding Editor for Canadian Review in Comparative Literature. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies.
Synenko’s research is situated between media and geography. His published work explores relationships between cities and mobility (migration, displacement, settlement), cinema and geography, and exchanges between practice-based research and artistic research.
Synenko is open to supervising students pursuing cinema studies, media theory, social and political thought, and visual culture.
Recent publications:
Synenko, J., and Epp. M. H. (2025) “Violent Labour and Media,” Media Theory 9.1: 1-22.
Synenko, J. (2024): “Let’s Abolish Research-Creation.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 15.2: 351-370.
Synenko, J. (2024) “Spectacularly Televised: U.S. Congress hearing on campus antisemitism reveals growing interference in educational policy.” No More Abysses, No More Walls. Kreuter, A., ed. Substack.
Synenko, J. (2023): “‘Where Does This World End?’ Space, Time, and Image in Harun Farocki’s Parallel." 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. (2019) “Library in Ruins: Digital Collections and the Idea of the University.” Re- viewing Comparative Literature in Canada, Ingram, S., and Sywenky, I., eds. Lanham: Lexington Books: 225-237.
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.
Journal issues:
Synenko, J., and Epp. M. eds. (2025) “Violent Labour and Media.” Special issue of Media Theory, 9.1.
Synenko, J., and Mergler, A. eds. (2024) “A Research-creation Episteme? Practices, Interventions, Dissensus.” Special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 15.2.
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.
Forthcoming publications:
Synenko, J. Experimental Technologies: Reframing Locative Media’s Artistic Past. Montreal: Concordia University Press. (under contract)
Synenko, J. “Digital Geographies.” The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Cultural, Vol. 3: Digitsations, Transformations, and Futures, eds. Sandywell, B. and Hand, M. [scheduled for publication in 2026]. Website: https://joshuasynenko.com/