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What follows is the most up to date list of faculty, from both Ryerson and York campuses, who are formally affiliated with the ComCult program. The list was last updated on October 31, 2012.
Please note: Some faculty may have limited availability to supervise and instruct ComCult students. This may change from year to year. For an up-to-date list, visit the current Adjunct, Limited Availability, and Retired Faculty page.
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For errors or omissions, please contact the Departmental Administrator at comcult <at> ryerson <dot> ca.
| Stream | Research Interests | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Gene Allen | Technology in Practice | media history; the history of journalism; the evolution of news; news agencies; news and national identity; the popularization of history in film and television | Ryerson |
| Amin Alhassan | Politics & Policy | development communication theory; global media studies; postcolonial theory and cultural studies | York |
| Sedef Arat-Koc | Politics & Policy | imperialism; Middle East; Turkish society and politics; whiteness; politics of multiculturalism and anti-racism; Canadian immigration policies; immigrant women in Canada | Ryerson |
| Steve Bailey | Media & Culture | psychoanalysis; audiences; philosophy; aesthetics; culture | York |
| Ian Balfour | Media & Culture | Romantic poetry and prose; contemporary theory and criticism; 18th-century literature; 18th-century philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language) | York |
| Deborah Barndt | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | popular education and social movements; media analysis; photographic methods for participatory research/education/action; cultural production; community development; women, globalization, and food | York |
| Tuna Baskoy | Politics & Policy | research methods; statistics and computer applications; comparative public policy and administration (especially competition/antitrust and telecommunication policies); theories of capitalist market competition; political economy of European integration; e-government; e-democracy | Ryerson |
| Shannon Bell | Politics & Policy, Technology in Practice | extremes in art (especially bio- and hybrid-art); shooting theory (videoing-imagining philosophical concept such as Heidegger's stillness, Husserl’s epoché, Bataille's waste, Weil's attention, Deleuze's deterritorialization, Virilio's vision machine and accident) | York |
| Jody Berland | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | cultural theory; Canadian communication theory; cultural studies of nature; science, technology and the environment; music and the media; space and place | York |
| Art Munro Blake | Media & Culture | North America; U.S. 20th-century cultural history; urban history; sound studies | Ryerson |
| Alan Blum | Media & Culture | medical humanities; culture of the city; sociology of knowledge; theorizing everyday life; the imaginary, symbolic and real registers of social life and phenomena | York |
| Marusya Borciurkiw | Media & Culture | Canadian television; affect theory; nationalist discourses; community cable; media activism; sexuality & gender studies | Ryerson |
| Rob Bowman | Media & Culture | popular music studies; history of popular music; writer, broadcaster, and performer in many musical genres | York |
| Marta Braun | Technology in Practice | history of photography; chronophotography; early cinema; technology | Ryerson |
| Jennifer Brayton | Media & Culture | media studies; popular culture; fandom studies; stereotyping; music; technology and gender; videogames; Canadian media; entertainment; social media; cyberculture; sexual identities; cyberfeminism | Ryerson |
| Jean Bruce | Media & Culture | media and culture; film theory; melodrama; visual culture; documentary; consumer culture | Ryerson |
| Jennifer Burwell | Media & Culture | televisual; communications; science and technology studies; utopian studies; feminist studies; cultural studies; gay and lesbian/queer studies; science fiction; psychiatric | Ryerson |
| Darcy Callison | Media & Culture | choreography; dance dramaturgy; popular culture and dance; performance studies and gender (masculinity) | York |
| Carole Carpenter | Media & Culture | children; culture; identity; multicultural; Canada | York |
| John Caruana | Media & Culture | phenomenology; Frankfurt School; psychoanalysis; post-structuralism; European cinema; theories of the sacred | Ryerson |
| David Ciavatta | Media & Culture | Kant and 19th-century continental philosophy (especially Hegel and Marx); phenomenology and existentialism; social and political philosophy; philosophy of action | Ryerson |
| Susan Cody | Media & Culture | health communication; organizational communication; text analysis | Ryerson |
| Joy Cohnstaedt | Politics & Policy | comparative cultural policy; arts and the law; arts and cultural administration; minorities and the arts | York |
| Marianella Collette | Media & Culture | Latin-American literature and culture; Feminist theory | Ryerson |
| Rosemary Coombe | Media & Culture, Politics & Policy | intellectual property; Indigenous peoples; cultural and biological diversity; publics; public domains and public sphere; human rights; cultural rights; postcolonial theory; theories of information; civil society; transnationalism; neoliberalism; informational capital | York |
| Barbara Crow | Technology in Practice | digital technologies; social movements; women's studies; political economy of communication; and mobile technologies | York |
| Wendy Cukier | Technology in Practice | technology strategy and decision making; regulation and policy; vertical market applications (especially government, policing, health, education, non-profits); technology enabled learning; government relations; advocacy and social marketing and the role of IT; critical theory and IT; gender, diversity and IT | Ryerson |
| Charles Davis | Politics & Policy, Technology in Practice | IT, media, and creative industries; new firm formation, internationalization, and product and service innovation practices; innovation and industrial policy; consumer behaviour with respect to digital technologies and services; work practices and occupations in creative industries; management practices in media industries | Ryerson |
| Dennis Denisoff | Media & Culture | Victorian literature; art; culture; gender/sexuality; paganism; decadence and aestheticism; posthumanism; animality theory | Ryerson |
| Colleen Derkatch | Media & Culture | rhetoric; the history and philosophy of science; science and technology studies (STS); medicine studies | Ryerson |
| Kevin Dowler | Media & Culture | cultural policy in Canada and Europe; art and the city; aesthetics and popular culture; history of communications | York |
| Daniel Drache | Politics & Policy | the political economy of integration and social exclusion; borders and identity; North American integration; global cultural commons and microactivism; public goods theory and the theory of the public good; the thought and influence of Harold Innis, Jürgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt | York |
| Susan Driver | Media & Culture | gender issues; women; sexuality | York |
| Patrice Dutil | Politics & Policy | institutionalism; political leadership; public sector leadership; policy process; financial management; collaborative governance; heritage policy | Ryerson |
| Kate Eichhorn | Media & Culture | print cultures in contemporary social movements; the aesthetic and political uses of the archive; and the poetics of everyday life | The New School |
| R. Bruce Elder | Technology in Practice | philosophy of technology; psychoanalysis and culture; modernity and its discontents; modernity and the avant-garde; the intellectual reception of the early cinema; modernist art and spirituality; the application of algorithmic process in art making; using mathematical models in art making; digital signal processing | Ryerson |
| Greg Elmer | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | new media and politics; surveillance studies; software studies; collaborative media making; media globalization | Ryerson |
| Barbara Evans | Technology in Practice | documentary; film; women; history; politics | York |
| Seth Feldman | Technology in Practice | Canadian cinema, history and theory; documentary cinema and media; television studies; rhetoric of radio | York |
| Deborah Fels | Technology in Practice | inclusive design; inclusive media; accessibility; human-computer interaction; digital media; people with disabilities; inclusive gaming; design for older people | Ryerson |
| Marco Fiola | Media & Culture | intercultural communication; language and gender; translator subjectivity | Ryerson |
| Caitlin Fisher | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | augmented reality; digital storytelling; hypermedia fiction and documentary; feminist theory; archives and collecting; locative media | York |
| Jennifer Fisher | Media & Culture | contemporary art; curatorial practice; display culture; the aesthetics of the non-visual senses | York |
| Blake Fitzpatrick | Technology in Practice | photographic representation of the nuclear era; visual responses to contemporary militarism; disaster in contemporary landscape photography | Ryerson |
| Fred Fletcher | Politics & Policy | political communication; social advocacy; communication and public policy; communication policy | York |
| Scott Forysth | Media & Culture | film and media politics; film history; Marxist cultural and aesthetic theory; film in the third world; cultural politics and Canadian communists; Hollywood and imperialism | York |
| Doreen Fumia | Media & Culture, Politics & Policy | sexual citizenship; queer geography and local neighbourhoods; queer identities; queer pedagogy; lesbian mothers | Ryerson |
| Irene Gammel | Media & Culture | Modernism; modern literature and culture; avant-garde; visual culture; life writing and auto/biography; Dada and Surrealism; New York Modern; theories of urban space; ecocriticism; curating; performance art; feminist theory; gender and sexuality theory; body theory; salon culture and theory; digital archiving; World War I; trauma narratives | Ryerson |
| Donald J. Gillies | Media & Culture, Politics & Policy | The Toronto School of Communication; Marshall McLuhan; history of media and communications; history of telecommunications; the communications industry; communications policy; international communications and development; media ecology; media ecology in Gaelic culture | Ryerson |
| Jacqui Gingras | Media & Culture | nutrition communication; subjectivity and performativity; pedagogy and epistemology; autoethnography and phenomenology |
Ryerson |
| Jay Goulding | Media & Culture | Chinese and Japanese philosophy; hermeneutic phenomenology; comparative religion | York |
| Ratiba Hadj-Moussa | Media & Culture | sociology of culture; political sociology; non-Western mediascapes; secularism and Islam in the West and in Islam-majority societies; marginalized forms of protest | York |
| Jan Hadlaw | Technology in Practice, Media & Culture | communication and media history; cultural history of telephony; the design and representation of technology; technologies and the social imaginaries of time and space; media and everyday life; advertising and consumer society; modern design and Canadian nationalism | York |
| Andrew Herman | Politics & Policy | social theory; media and culture; digital media; intellectual property; cultural policy | Wilfrid Laurier |
| Shelley Hornstein | Media & Culture | architecture; place; urban culture; 19th and 20th century cultures; contemporary visual culture | York |
| Anna Hudson | Media & Culture | postcolonial art of the Americas; contemporary art of the Arctic; museology; the art market and the business of culture; sex and gender in the representation of beauty and the social order; humanism in 20th century Canadian art | York |
| Susan Ingram | Media & Culture | European film; fashion; biography and autobiography; comparative literature; translation studies | York |
| Christopher Innes | Media & Culture | modern drama; theatre history; performance and culture | York |
| Lorraine Janzen Kooistra | Media & Culture | nineteenth- and early twentieth century British literature and culture; Victorian studies; illustrated books; visual/verbal relations; illustration; the book arts; print culture; periodical studies (Victorian and early 20th century; British); history of the book and publishing; digital humanities; textual editing; poetry; children's literature; Women's writing; Women's suffrage (British); fin-de-siecle studies (British); Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting (British) | Ryerson |
| Jennifer Jenson | Technology in Practice | education and educational technology; game studies | York |
| Kathleen Kellet-Betsos | Media & Culture | Franco-Canadian (minority) literatures and cultures; immigrant literature in Canada; women's writing; literary theory | Ryerson |
| Arne Kislenko | Politics & Policy | international relations; 19th and 20th century diplomatic history; US foreign policy; modern Southeast Asia; contemporary intelligence and national security | Ryerson |
| Andreas Kitzman | Media & Culture | culture and technology; new media and society; digital culture; critical theory; cultural studies | York |
| Mustafa Koc | Politics & Policy | food studies; food writing; food on the web; food and films; cook books and national cuisines; ethnic and diasporic food cultures and identity; policy studies; food and agricultural policy; immigration policy; cultural studies; globalization and impacts of restructuring; global population movements and diasporas | Ryerson |
| Robert Latham | Politics & Policy | politics of environmental knowledge and large-scale monitoring systems; security and IT; technologies of border surveillance; critical theories of sovereignty; transnational relations; migration; multiculturalism and international communication politics; human security; global governance | York |
| Ann-Marie Lee-Loy | Media & Culture | Caribbean-Canadian literature; 19th century representations of Chinese and Indian immigrants in Trinidad and British Guiana | Ryerson |
| Laura Levin | Media & Culture | performance theory; contemporary North American theatre and performance art; gender and sexuality in/as performance; intermedial and online performance; practice as research; photographic theory and performance; disciplinary geneaologies in performance studies | York |
| Bruno Lessard | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | interactive media arts; video game studies; software studies; digital animation; data visualization; contemporary documentary; Michel Foucault; comparative philosophy (China/the West); governmentality | Ryerson |
| Kenneth Little | Media & Culture | analysis of society as spectacle; visual culture; popular cultural performance in both Euro-North American and post-colonial cultures; circus and the politics and poetics of spectacle | York |
| Brenda Longfellow | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | feminist film theory; gender and national identity; women and cinema; film-making; women and culture, environmentalism, globalization | York |
| Kym MacLaren | Media & Culture | phenomenology; existentialism; embodiment; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; philosophy of emotion; Feminist philosophy; intersubjectivity; animality; Martin Heidegger; Jean-Paul Sartre; philosophical psychology | Ryerson |
| Anne MacLennan | Media & Culture | radio; communication and media history; broadcasting; popular culture; oral history; 19th and 20th century Canadian culture and history of communication; 20th century American culture and communication; advertising; consumer society; poverty; social welfare, labour, and methodology | York |
| Janine Marchessault | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | cities and cinema; stereoscopic 3D cinema; future cinema architectures; feminist/post-colonial media; social media and activism; Marshall McLuhan and the Explorations Group; World Fairs; film festivals and utopias; micro-cinemas; curatorial studies; process philosophy; theories of spectatorship; phenomenology and affect; experimental cinema | York |
| Jean Mason | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | writing; narrative; illness narrative; pathography; culture of illness; autoethnography; health communication; science communication; hypertext; digital media; organizational communication | Ryerson |
| Alison Matthews-David | Media & Culture | history of fashion | Ryerson |
| Patricia Mazepa | Politics & Policy | critical political economy of communication (commodification, structuration, spatialization, hegemony, ideology); Canadian media history; social movement media | York |
| John McCullough | Technology in Practice | North American film and television; media labour and globalization; representation of spatial, class and racial relations | York |
| Catherine Middleton | Technology in Practice | telecommunications; policy; usage; internet; broadband; mobile; wireless; infrastructure; next generation networks; information society; digital economy | Ryerson |
| Colin Mooers | Politics & Policy, Media & Culture | political economy of capitalism; political theory; social movements; theories of citizenship; the public sphere | Ryerson |
| Paul S. Moore | Media & Culture | research methodologies; cultural and social theories; media history; historiography; history of technology; material culture; governmentality & social regulation; publics and counterpublics; regional and mass market consumption; popular screen cultures & practices; popular print cultures & practices; ephemera; collecting; the archive and nostalgia; film industries in Canada; film exhibition and screen practices; the newspaper & its supplements | Ryerson |
| Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands | Media & Culture | environmental cultural studies (environmental literature and criticism, history and philosophy); gender, sexuality and environments (queer theories and ecologies); political theory and public cultures | York |
| Michael Murphy | Technology in Practice | new media production; digital audio; emerging technologies; technology enabled learning | Ryerson |
| Stuart J. Murray | Media & Culture | ethics; biotechnologies and biopolitical forms of governance | Carleton |
| Nima Naghibi | Media & Culture | postcolonial literatures and theory; autobiography studies; trauma theory; feminist studies | Ryerson |
| Nicole Neverson | Media & Culture | representation and mass media; socio-cultural aspects of sport and gender; Canadian media policy | Ryerson |
| David Newhouse | Media & Culture | Aboriginal modernity; indigenous knowledge; Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relationships | Trent |
| Ojelanki Ngwenyama | Technology in Practice | ICT and productivity; IT management; software process improvement; non-traditional research methods in information systems; ICT and development | Ryerson |
| Jason Nolan | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | children's culture; critical pedagogy; autism; privacy; autonomy; play; games; learning; adaptive design; maker-culture; sensory play | Ryerson |
| Mona Oikawa | Politics & Policy | sociology; gender issues; critical race studies; cultural studies | York |
| Andrew O'Malley | Media & Culture | children's literature and culture; popular culture; historical popular culture; comics and graphic novels; eighteenth century; robinsonades | Ryerson |
| John O'Neill | Media & Culture | theory of textuality and discourse production | York |
| Ruth Panofsky | Media & Culture | Canadian publishing history; Canadian authorship studies; Canadian celebrity authorship; Canadian literary culture; textual studies | Ryerson |
| Isabel Pedersen | Media & Culture | digital culture; future mobile computers; wearable computers; augmented reality; digital life; multimodal design; rhetoric; semiotics; metaphor; nanotechnology |
UoIT |
| Nalini Persram | Media & Culture | postcolonialism; empire and Western thought; subjectivity and survival; feminism; Caribbean culture and resistance (Guyana); and international political theory | York |
| Lila Pine | Technology in Practice, Media & Culture | storytelling and new media; media and communication | Ryerson |
| Elizabeth Podnieks | Media & Culture | life writing; modernism; Women's studies; mothering; popular culture; celebrity culture; scholarly editing; digital humanities | Ryerson |
| Murray Pomerance | Media & Culture | Hollywood film and cinema; popular culture; film history and theory; modernity; screen performance; cinema and technology | Ryerson |
| Carol Poster | Media & Culture | history of rhetoric; rhetoric of religion | York |
| Michael Prokopow | Media & Culture | North American middle class taste; style; popular culture | Ontario College of Art and Design |
| Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof | Technology in Practice | history and theory of avant-garde art and cinema; cine-dance; body art; artist's body and self-portraiture; feminine aesthetics and ecriture feminin; psychodynamics of the creative process and imagination; Julia Kristeva; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Marshall McLuhan; Sigmund Freud; Marion Milner; Donald Winnicott; Anton Ehrenzweig; phenomenology; avant-garde poetry and poetics; media poetics | Ryerson |
| Marcus Reisenleitner | Media & Culture | visual and textual interpretations of global cities; European urban culture; history, memory and nostalgia in popular and digital culture | York |
| Danielle Robinson | Media & Culture | dance ethnography; cultural studies; dance history; critical race theory; social dance reconstruction; multicultural dance education; popular dance practices; African diaspora within the Americas; Latin American dance cultures | York |
| Cecilia Rocha | Politics & Policy | assessing the social efficiency of food security initiatives and programs; the role of market failures in food insecurity; the effectiveness of markets as policy tools | Ryerson |
| Wade Rowland | Politics & Policy, Technology in Practice | communication; ethics; critical realism; technology | York |
| Myles Ruggles | Politics & Policy | legal, regulatory and economic discourses; communication; knowledge; information; information technology | York |
| Liora Salter | Politics & Policy | interdisciplinary research; communications; regulation and public policy | York |
| Leslie Sanders | Media & Culture | African American and Black Canadian literature and culture; literatures of the African diaspora | York |
| Rahul Sapra | Media & Culture | Renaissance literature; Shakespearean drama; literary theory; postcolonial studies; third-world cinema | Ryerson |
| Carmen Schifellite | Politics & Policy | science and technology studies; popular culture; sociology of knowledge; graduate methodologies | Ryerson |
| Catherine Schryer | Media & Culture | issues related to advanced literacies in the professions; genre theory; healthcare communication | Ryerson |
| Judith Schwarz | Technology in Practice | sculpture; public sculpture; drawing; printmaking; geometry; patterning | York |
| Alan Sears | Media & Culture | sexuality; theory; social movements; work; education | Ryerson |
| Hugh Shewell | Politics & Policy | aboriginal-state relations in Canada; aboriginal social welfare; poverty and ideology; social policy and social rights; history of social welfare and social work; social work education |
Carleton |
| John M. Shields | Politics & Policy | Canadian political economy; labour market policy; immigrant economic integration; the welfare state; public sector restructuring; globalization; the political economy of the nonprofit sector; labour studies and industrial relations | Ryerson |
| Yvonne Singer | Media & Culture | memory; history; identity; perception; psychoanalysis | York |
| David Skinner | Politics & Policy | political economy of communication; media and communications policy; alternative and community media; media democracy | York |
| Dale Smith | Media & Culture | rhetoric and public culture; theory of rhetoric and history | Ryerson |
| Joyce Smith | Media & Culture, Technology in Practice | representation of religion in news media; quantitative and qualitative content analysis; online journalism; South African media; creative problem solving; design pedagogy | Ryerson |
| Don Snyder | Technology in Practice | contemporary photography; curation; critical writing | Ryerson |
| Nell Tenhaaf | Technology in Practice | critiques of genetic engineering and biotechnology; artificial life; Max/MSP programming | York |
| Sophie Thomas | Media & Culture | Romanticism; literature and visual culture; nineteenth century visual technologies; history of museums and collections; ruins and fragments; cultural and aesthetic theory | Ryerson |
| Neil Thomlinson | Politics & Policy | urban governance (Canadian, and comparative with Brazil); Canadian politics (particularly institutions of governance); public policy; sexual diversity and identity; policing; gun control | Ryerson |
| Temenuga Trifonova | Technology in Practice | European cinema; screenwriting; film theory; philosophy of film; film remakes and sequels; film adaptations; film criticism; contemporary American cinema; psychopathology and film; migrant and diasporic cinema; film/video production; creative writing; photography; aesthetic theory; 20th century American literature; existentialism | York |
| Elizabeth Trott | Media & Culture | Canadian philosophy; philosophy of education; philosophy of art and design; multiculturalism; metaphysics; culture | Ryerson |
| Monique Tschofen | Media & Culture | English and French Canadian literature and film; postcoloniality; interarts relations; visual culture; violence in representation | Ryerson |
| Ana Viseu | Technology in Practice | cyborg anthropology; human-computer interaction; feminist technoscience; emergent technologies; embodiment; identity and agency | York |
| Leah Vosko | Politics & Policy | comparative labour and social policy; the political economy of work; gender and work; economic restructuring; globalization |
York |
| Wendy Wong | Technology in Practice | design culture; Chinese graphic design history; poster design |
York |
| Joyce Zemans | Politics & Policy | nineteeth and twentieth century Canadian art with a special focus on the art of women; cultural policy (Canadian and comparative); arts administration | York |
| Michael Zryd | Media & Culture | experimental / avant-garde cinema; documentary film theory; history of cinema and media studies; American populism in film and media; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Hollis Frampton; Su Friedrich; Philip Hoffman; Ruth Ozeki | York |
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