Creative Arts

Kyle Frackman, PhD

Kyle Frackman, PhD

Associate Professor

German, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Sweden, Finland, literature, film, cinema, theory, cultural studies, gender, sexuality, social justice, teaching, East Germany

Sidney Fels, PhD, PEng.

Sidney Fels, PhD, PEng.

Professor

Computers and art, multimedia, computer music

Serge Guilbaut

Professor Emeritus

Post war cultural trends in U.S. and France, art history

Alison Green, BFA, MFA

Alison Green, BFA, MFA

Professor Emeritus

Sociology and history of costume, set and costume design, costume and social history, theatre in Vancouver

Sherrill Grace, OC, FRSC, PhD

Sherrill Grace, OC, FRSC, PhD

University Killam Professor Emerita

Timothy Findley biography, representations of Canada in WWI and II, Malcolm Lowry archives, Canadian literature and arts, the Canadian North, the visual arts, theatre, literature, autobiography & biography, Sharon Pollock, Canadian women’s writing including drama

Xiong Gu

Professor

Fine art, transcultural identity and hybridity

Prof. John O’Brian, PhD

Prof. John O’Brian, PhD

Professor Emeritus

visual art, photography, Canadian art, modern art, atomic imagery, nuclear photography, the bomb, art and violence,

Margot Leigh Butler

Academic Director

Vancouver Downtown Eastside, community education, free community education with Downtown Eastside residents who experience marginalization, poverty, addictions and education, community-university relationships, representation, cultural studies, critical and creative pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, site-specific art, collectives, implicatedness, activism

Dr. Lisa Cooper, PhD

Professor

Archaeology of Ancient Near East, Archaeology of the Ancient Middle East, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Babylonia, Ancient Syria, Material Culture, Artifacts, Gertrude Bell, ancient pottery, Ancient Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, History of Archaeology, Archaeological Photography, Ancient History of Near East/Middle East, cuneiform,

Stephen Heatley, BA, MFA

Stephen Heatley, BA, MFA

Associate Professor

Theatre, acting, directing, new play development, comedy, commedia dell’arte, solo performance, play producing, Canadian theatre, Canadian plays

Paul G. Stanwood

Professor Emeritus

English Renaissance and 17th century literature, English Reformation and church history, Edmund Spenser, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Metaphysical Poets, John Milton, early modern devotional poetry and prose, T.S. Eliot, opera

Stephen Malloy, MFA

Professor Emeritus

Theatre, directing, acting, playwriting, contemporary classics, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Canadian theatre

Dr. Rita Irwin, EdD

Dr. Rita Irwin, EdD

Professor

Arts education, arts teacher education, teacher education, arts based research, research creation, artists-in-residence, community engagement, diversity, international education, refugee education

Gayle Murphy

Gayle Murphy

Associate Professor

Breath and voice for actors and other professional speakers, vocal coaching for stage and screen, theatre, breath work, Middendorf Breathexperience practice

Jessica Stites Mor, PhD

Jessica Stites Mor, PhD

Associate Professor

Latin American history, international solidarity

Nathan Hesselink, BM, MA, PhD

Professor of Ethnomusicology

British rock music, popular music, ethnomusicology, rhythm, Radiohead, The Police

Alex Fisher, PhD

Alex Fisher, PhD

Associate Professor

Music, religion, identity, ritual, medieval, renaissance, baroque, Germany, reformation, counter-reformation, Lutheranism, catholicism, sound

Catherine Soussloff

Professor and Department Head

Art, art history, European art, performance art, performance studies, art theory, aesthetics

Gage Averill, PhD

Gage Averill, PhD

Dean

Popular music, Caribbean music, barbershop harmony, sound, music and power, music and politics, ethnomusicology, world music

Susanna Braund

Professor

Latin literature, Roman culture, epic poetry, satire, drama, emotions, later reception of ancient literature and culture, myth, modern poetry, translation