Arts & Contemporary Studies
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Jean-Paul Boudreau Office: JOR-112
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : I completed my doctoral studies in developmental psychology at Tufts University in Boston and received post-doctoral research opportunities in New York and North Carolina but opted for an early tenure-track position back home in Atlantic Canada where in 1994 I began my academic career in the Psychology Department at the University of Prince Edward Island. In 2000 I was a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland (USA) and Visiting Scientist at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). In 2003 I left my position as Chair of Psychology at UPEI to become Chair of Psychology at Ryerson. My scholarly interests in developmental science include the following: The study of perception, action, and cognition in the first year; the interaction of social-cognition and goal-directed behavior; and the cognitive-neuromotor aspects of childhood disorders. I direct the CHILD (Cognition, Health, Infancy, Learning, Development) laboratory for research and training. I am passionately involved in department and university-building as well as contributing research expertise to my profession through editorial boards, peer-review, and community service including my current work as co-Chair of Health Canada’s National Experts Advisory Committee for the Center’s of Excellence for Children’s Well-Being. I have been honoured with a Teaching Award, a Service Award, and the Ryersionian of the Year Award. |
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Stéphanie Walsh Matthews Office: JOR-117
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Professor Walsh Matthews joined Ryerson and the Department of French and Spanish in 2007. She earned her B.A. in Lettres françaises at the University of Ottawa, then achieved a Specialist Degree in Semiotics and Communication Theory at Victoria College (University of Toronto) followed by an Interdisciplinary and Collaborative M.A. in Semiotics. Pursuing her studies in French Literature, she completed an M.A. in French Studies at St. Michael's College (University of Toronto) and her Ph.D. at the Department of French Studies, University of Toronto. Her doctoral dissertation, "Le Réalisme magique dans la littérature contemporaine québécoise" uses genre and sociocritical theories and approaches. Professor Walsh Matthews has been involved in a variety of ACS committees and councils and has participated in a number of ACS initiatives helping students. She teaches ACS 106, Introduction to Language, a first-year course that introduces students to the fundamental nature of language and communication. She also teaches courses on semiotics, French Caribbean literature, translation, and Franco-Canadian literature and culture. She is an Executive Member of the Semiotic Society of America, and is the author of several chapters and articles on magical realism, published both in Canada and abroad. She also publishes articles in semiotic journals and her dissertation is currently being prepared as a book manuscript for publication. |
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Diana Brecher, Counsellor - Faculty of Arts Office: POD344-I
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : As the counsellor for the Faculty of Arts, Diana Brecher works with Arts students as well as other students in the university. Diana provides personal counselling and academic skills counselling and connects students with other supportive services within the University and the community. Diana is a clinical psychologist with over twenty years experience at Ryerson in the Center for Student Development and Counselling. In 1990 Diana was appointed adjunct faculty in the Counselling Psychology program at OISE/UT. More recently, Diana was appointed adjunct faculty in the Psychology Department at Ryerson, where she taught courses in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the PhD program. |
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Jill Careless, Community Liaison / Experiential Learning Office: POD 344-J
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Jill is a resource to students as they bridge their experiences in the classroom with the world around them through exchanges, volunteering and Service Learning. Before coming to Ryerson she was involved in rural development and non-formal education initiatives in Haiti and worked with YMCAs in Toronto and Beirut to develop Global Education and youth engagement programs. She has a B.A. in International Development Studies from the University of Guelph. |
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Ruth Frolic, Counsellor - Faculty of Arts Office: POD-344 l
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : As Counsellor for the Faculty of Arts, Ruth Frolic works with ACS students, as well as other students in the University. Ruth holds a Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology (OISE/UT), in addition to a Masters of Arts in English Literature (U of T). Before her arrival at Ryerson, Ruth worked both in an administrative and counselling capacity at other universities in Toronto, as well as in community development for the non- profit sector. She provides personal counselling, academic skills counselling, and referrals to other supportive services within the University and the community. |
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Elisa Hadad, ACS Undergraduate Program Administrator Office: JOR-120
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Office: JOR-121
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Nicole holds a Bachelor Degree in Human Resources and Labour Relations from Athabasca University. She has also completed an Advance Diploma in the Business Management program at Sheridan College. Nicole previously worked in Ryerson's Curriculum Advising as a Departmental Assistant and as a Transfer Credit Clerk. Nicole is well versed in Ryerson's systems, policies and procedures. |
Nicole Florecki-Jarwan, ACS Undergraduate Program Administrator
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Sonny Wong, Career Counsellor - Faculty of Arts Office: POD-344 F
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Sonny Wong, M.Ed., is a career counsellor for the Faculty of Arts students. He holds a Masters Degree in Adult Education/Counselling Psychology with a focus on Work and Career. With over eight years experience in career counselling, Sonny’s areas of interests are: transition from school to work, self assessment, career exploration, job search strategies for students seeking meaningful employment. His experience spans both academic and community settings working with various groups including youth, foreign trained professionals and women. |
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Patrizia Albanese Office: JOR-613
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Dr. Albanese, interim chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, is currently doing SSHRC-funded research on the child care needs and arrangements of employed mothers in rural Quebec and Ontario. She is also doing research on the well-being of youth in Canadian Forces families (also SSHRC-funded; Dr. Deborah Harrison, UNB, as PI); on how child care is depicted in Canadian newspapers (with Ann Rauhala, School of Journalism, Ryerson U.); on the intergenerational transmission of problem gambling (with Dr. Lorne Tepperman, U of T); and on immigrant children (with Dr. Morley Beiser, Psychology, Ryerson U). She has recently completed a research project on household work and lifelong learning (with Dr. Margrit Eichler, OISE/UT). |
Kristen Aspevig
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I completed my Ph.D. in the Joint Communication and Culture Program at Ryerson and York Universities in December 2010. I also have an M.A. in the program, and a B.A. in Religious Studies and Women's Studies from McGill University. My research focuses on media representations and accessibility. My PhD looked at representations of sex work in newspapers and fiction over a ten-year period. I have also worked as a Research Associate at the Diversity Institute at Ryerson, investigating diversity in television news media. My published research is about accessible media technologies, in particular, how television is made accessible for persons who are Blind or have low-vision. I've also worked in the private sector as a Media Analyst for an investment consultancy specializing in sustainability issues, and in the film and television industry, developing content. I've taught various courses at Ryerson: in the Communication and Culture Graduate Program (MA-level), the Professional Communications Department (Chang) , and now in the Arts and Contemporary Studies Program. |
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Tuna Baskoy Office: JOR-712
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Tuna Baskoy's B.Sc. degree in Sociology and M.A. degree in Political Science and Public Administration were completed at the Middle East Technical University and Bilkent University, both in Ankara Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science in May 2006 at York University. His fields of research include research methods, statistics and computer applications, as well as various public policy issues. He is currently completing a comparative study of extraterritorial enforcement of U.S. and E.U. competition/antitrust policies. |
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Jenny Carson Office: JOR-501
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Jenny Carson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, which she joined in 2007. In addition to a PhD from the University of Toronto, she holds an MA in History from the University of Western Ontario and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History, also from Western. Dr. Carson’s doctoral research, supported by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Award and a Fulbright Award (at Columbia University), explored the working and organizational activities of African-American women laundry workers in the first half of the 20th century. She currently is working on a manuscript on the same topic. Dr. Carson teaches courses on American history and global studies in the Department of History and in the Arts and Contemporary Studies program. Her recent publications include: “On Wit, Irony, and Living with Imperfection: How Britain said No to Abstinence,” American Journal of Public Health (2008); “Riding the Rails: Black Railroad Workers in Canada and the United States,” Labour/ Le Travail (2002): (http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/50/carson.html); and entries in the Encyclopedia of Women in World History and the Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Her article “‘Taking on Corporate Bullies:’ Cintas, Laundry Workers and Organizing in the 1930s and 21st Century,” is forthcoming in Labor Studies Journal. Dr. Carson is also part of a five-year Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) project entitled “Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario.” Dr. Carson’s research will investigate the potential of collective responses in minimizing the economic and social costs associated with precarious employment. |
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John Caruana, Office: JOR-424 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : John Caruana received his B.A. from McGill University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from York University. His areas of research include contemporary European philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and film. He is especially interested in questions and issues pertaining to the nature of selfhood and intersubjective relations. His publications include articles on Theodor Adorno, Sigmund Freud, and Emmanuel Levinas. He is presently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the intersections between belief and unbelief. |
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Office: JOR-513
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Catherine Ellis came to Ryerson in 2003. Prior to joining the Department of History, she held a Killam post-doctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University and taught at the University of Victoria and the University of Lethbridge. Her research focuses on post-1945 Britain, particularly the development of the Labour Party and the integration of youth into British political life from the 1940s to the 1970s. She has published articles and reviews on these topics and also presented research on subjects ranging from postwar British literature to punk music. Currently, she is writing a book on socialism and the British Labour Party’s domestic policy-making. Her teaching includes courses on the First World War, the Third Reich, Early Modern Europe, and European intellectual history. Dr. Ellis also is a member of the graduate faculty. |
Catherine Ellis
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Alex Gill is the principal of Mendicant Group, a consulting firm that advises nonprofit organizations in business development, government relations and marketing. He received his B.A. in Political Science and History from Carleton and his M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Windsor, and holds post-graduate certificates from the Rotman School of Management and the Schulich School of Business. Prior to founding Mendicant Group, Alex worked as an executive in the nonprofit field for a variety of national charities, professional associations and unions. He has worked on several political campaigns and was a member of the Ontario government's Democratic Renewal Advisory Group, which looked at ways to make the province's electoral system more inclusive and democratic. He is co-author of "Exploring the Impact of Negative Political Ads" in Television Advertising in Canadian Elections (1999). |
Alex Gill
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Office: JOR-517
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Jennifer Hubbard, an Associate Professor of the History of Science and Technology, has taught in the Department of History at Ryerson University since 1997 and taught at Ryerson’s Chang School for Continuing Education for eight years as well. Until 2001, she was also a part-time instructor at the University of Toronto, teaching history of biology and history of science courses for the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. She has published A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology 1898-1939 (2006). She also served as a historical consultant for a film about one of Canada’s premier fisheries biologists: A.G. Huntsman: The Fisherman’s Friend (2005) which can viewed at http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=en&n=84E110F4-1. Dr. Hubbard currently is researching the development of fisheries biology and management following the Second World War as conducted through international bodies created to conserve fish stocks. Her work explores the economic and social and environmental ideas that underlie “biological” models for managing environmental resources. She also is writing a chapter on how the changing role of government influenced fisheries policy, for a book being produced under the auspices of the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association on the history of the North Atlantic Fisheries from 1850 to the present. Dr. Hubbard also is a member of the graduate faculty. |
Jennifer Hubbard
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Office: JOR-615
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : David Hunter received his B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University, and his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He comes to Ryerson from the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Buffalo State College, SUNY Buffalo, where he was chair. Previously he taught at Concordia University in Montreal, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. His main research interests are in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, critical thinking, and epistemology. He has published widely in several prestigious journals of philosophy, and is currently completing a book on the metaphysics of belief and possibility. With an abiding interest in research on pedagogical aspects of critical thinking courses, he is co-investigating varieties of psychological phenomena that underlie critical thinking skills. |
David Hunter
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Office: JOR-618 A
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Jo Kornegay received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina and both her M.A. and Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. She began her career with a focus on early modern metaphysics, especially in the work of David Hume, but has gravitated towards contemporary ethics. Her current research interests are in the intersection of ethics and metaphysics, virtue ethics and reproductive ethics. She has published articles on Hume’s metaphysics, Hare’s utilitarianism and commercial surrogate motherhood. |
Jo Kornegay
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Office: JOR-1022 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Dr. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy joined Ryerson's English Department in 2003 after completing her doctoral degree in British and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick (UK). She has taught on a wide range of topics at Ryerson and as a sessional lecturer at the University of Guelph, including courses on postcolonial literatures, migrant writing, the Canadian short story and Asian literatures and cultures. Her research interests focus on theories and representations of cultural and national identities and the relationship between literature and the production of knowledge with a particular emphasis on Asian experiences in the Americas. Currently, Dr. Lee-Loy is completing a project that examines representations of belonging in Chinese Jamaican migration narratives and is developing a resource book on Chinese Caribbean fictional characters. She has published in the journals Asian Studies Review and Anthurium and has contributed articles to recent and forthcoming books on Chinese in the Caribbean, mothering, and Canadian Caribbean writers. |
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
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Office: JOR-418
EDUCATION : TEACHING AND RESEARCH OF INTERESTS : Phenomenology; Existentialism; Philosophy of Mind and Body; Philosophy of Emotions; History of Philosophy (especially 19th Century and Ancient Philosophy); Feminism; Ethics. |
Kym Maclaren
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Stuart Murray Office: JOR-516
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Stuart Murray completed his B.A. in English and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, then three M.A. degrees: from the University of California at Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's Institute of Philosophy in Belgium, and from the University of London, King's College, in Philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Berkeley, and held a variety of postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto. Fascinated with the construction of human subjectivity, he explores the links between rhetoric, politics, and ethics. His current research focuses on "Posthuman Life: Subjects and Technologies after Humanism." Recent publications include journal articles on free speech and the body; the politics of the suicide bomber; and a co-written article on evidence-based medicine as a fascist discourse. He has won teaching awards at the University of Toronto and at Berkeley. |
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Office: JOR-501
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Mima C. Petrovic has taught in the Department of History at Ryerson University and the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education since 2003. She received her BA in History and French, and her MA in History from the University of Toronto, and is completing her PhD at the same institution. A specialist in the history of marriage and the family in early modern France, she is writing her doctoral dissertation on marriage breakdown and annulment in 17th- and 18th-century Paris, with a focus on the growth of patriarchal authority over women and children. She has presented research in the history of the family, gender, and sexuality, examining the historical constructions of feminine and masculine identities; the contestation of paternal authority; and most recently, the historical value of storytelling in trial documents. She has taught courses in early modern and modern Europe, history and film, and the history of ideas. |
Mima C. Petrovic
Murray Pomerance
Office: JOR 301
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Media Studies Working Group, at Ryerson University. He is the author of Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema (California, 2011), The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory (Rutgers, 2008), Johnny Depp Starts Here (Rutgers, 2005), An Eye for Hitchcock (Rutgers, 2004), and Ludwig Bemelmans: A Bibliography (Heineman, 1993). His Ici Commence Johnny Depp appeared from Éditions Capricci in April 2010. He has edited A Family Affair: Cinema Calls Home (Wallflower, 2008), City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination (Rutgers, 2007), Cinema and Modernity (Rutgers, 2006), American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations (Rutgers, 2005), BAD: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (State University of New York Press, 2004), Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film (New York University Press, 2002), and Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century (State University of New York Press, 2001); and has co-edited numerous volumes including A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (Rutgers, 2011), From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings (Rodopi, 2006), Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (Wayne State, 2005), Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood (Wayne State, 2002), and several editions of Popping Culture (most recently Pearson Education, 2010). |
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Office: JOR-532
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Jonathan Rollins completed his B.A. in English at the University of Ottawa, and his M.A. and Ph.D at the University of Toronto in Comparative Literature. His graduate studies and his doctoral thesis focused on comparisons of medieval and contemporary identity. He has taught in Ryerson University's Department of English, as well as at the University of Toronto in the Literary Studies Program. Dr. Rollins' current research interests include comparative readings of popular and literary cultures, and the politics of cultural liminality. |
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Office: JOR-513
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : studies 20th-century international relations, focusing on the ways in which decolonization, migration, race, culture, and the development of international organizations and law affected relations between peoples and states. His work has appeared in the Canadian Review of American Studies, the Canadian Journal of History, Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices, and Societies Under Siege: Media, Government, Politics and Citizens' Freedoms in an Age of Terrorism. His book, Warming Up to the Cold War: Canada and the United States’ Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea, was published in 2009. At present he is working on a monograph, to be published in 2011, comparing Canadian and American attitudes toward their own nation’s 20th-century wars. Before coming to Ryerson in 2007, Dr. Teigrob taught at Nipissing University, the University of Toronto, and Central New Mexico Community College. He also has served as an archivist for the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives and the Minnesota Historical Society and worked as a cultural resources consultant. In 2010, Dr. Teigrob received the Dean’s Teaching Award, which recognizes continuing teaching excellence and achievement in instruction. He also is a member of the graduate faculty. |
Robert Teigrob
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Office: JOR-410
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Elizabeth Trott is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ryerson University. She previously taught in the Department of Philosophy and the faculty of Education at the University of Toronto. Elizabeth Trott has written extensively about education, art and design, and Canadian Philosophy and culture. She was a Writer-Broadcaster for CBC radio and contributed in creating programs about justice, education and early Canadian philosophers. She was a founding member of the Canadian Society for Practical Ethics and served on the Executive 1985-1990. EDUCATION: B.A. (Toronto) TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Canadian philosophy; philosophy of education; philosophy of art and design; multiculturalism; metaphysics; culture |
Elizabeth Trott
Monique Tschofen
Office: JOR 1005
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Monique Tschofen joined Ryerson in 1999 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English after teaching at Athabasca University and the University of Alberta. She has been a visiting researcher at NYU, Harvard, and Columbia. Her publications in the areas of new media, visual culture, Canadian studies, and globalization include textbooks on film and literature, literature and multimedia, and literary hypertext as well as edited collections of essays on Canadian writers and filmmaker Atom Egoyan. Recent articles treat Catalan filmmaker Isabel Coixet, Canadian poet Anne Carson and artist Betty Goodwin, and she is completing a short project about Peter Greenaway's transmedial projects. Her core area of research relates to the intersection of literature and the visual arts. She is currently engaged in writing a book-length study called Unwriting and Re/vision: Language, Image and Thought in Contemporary Art and Literature. |
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