Richard Cavell, PhD
Professor
Co-Founder, Bachelor in Media Studies Program
Marshall McLuhan, media theory, Canadian cultural production, media studies, Canadian cultural studies, politics and aesthetics
Kyle Frackman, PhD
Associate Professor
German, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Sweden, Finland, literature, film, cinema, theory, cultural studies, gender, sexuality, social justice, teaching, East Germany
Anthony Dawson
Professor Emeritus
Theatre, Shakespeare, history of Shakespearean performance, Shakespeare in contemporary culture, Elizabethan drama
Dr. Tiffany Potter, PhD
Professor of Teaching
eighteenth-century British literature and theatre (1660-1820), television, popular culture, women and popular culture (current and historical), eighteenth-century captivity narratives, “The Wire,” “Battlestar Galactica,” teaching, research on university teaching,
Ernest Mathijs, PhD
Professor
Cult cinema, film audiences, censorship, horror movies, controversies and aesthetically provocative films,
Alison Green, BFA, MFA
Professor Emeritus
Sociology and history of costume, set and costume design, costume and social history, theatre in Vancouver
Alain-Michel Rocheleau, PhD
Assistant Professor
French cinema, French and Quebecois theatre, Anglican Church and Roman Catholic Tradition
Jerry Wasserman, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Canadian theatre, history of theatre, Vancouver film, blues music
Robert Bridson, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Computer graphics, computer animation, scientific computing, numerical analysis
Stephen Heatley, BA, MFA
Associate Professor
Theatre, acting, directing, new play development, comedy, commedia dell’arte, solo performance, play producing, Canadian theatre, Canadian plays
Judith Plessis
Executive Director Emerita of Continuing Studies
Leadership in university lifelong learning, Second language acquisition for adults, Authorship by women filmmakers (Margarethe von Trotta, Marguerite Duras, Maya Deren)
Gage Averill, PhD
Dean
Popular music, Caribbean music, barbershop harmony, sound, music and power, music and politics, ethnomusicology, world music
Kim Snowden, PhD
Lecturer
Folk & fairy tales, social justice & feminism, vampires in popular culture, monstrosity in literature & film, science fiction & fantasy, young-adult literature, contemporary fairy tales, fairy-tale film, social media, television, film & pop culture, social networks, social networking
Jon Beasley-Murray, PhD in Literature (Duke)
Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies; Chair, Latin American Studies Program
Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Central America, Mexico, politics, political theory, cultural studies, literature, culture, film, history, the Left, revolution, revolutionary movements, populism, civil society, affect, habit, multitude, posthegemony, educational technology, blogs, Wikipedia
Doris Baltruschat, PhD
Author, Educator
Media/digital literacy, stereoscopic (3D), virtual reality and social media, independent film, digital citizenship and media democracy, media ecologies, transmedia storytelling, international co-productions and TV formats, film/TV audience reception, aboriginal media/arctic cinema, social movements, social networks, social networking
Prof. Hyung-Gu Lynn
AECL/KECPO Chair in Korean Research
Editor, Pacific Affairs
South Korea, North Korea, Japan, politics, popular culture, society,
Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD
Professor
Modern Chinese language, culture, history, literature, and cinema, modern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, undergraduate research, graduate research, research methodology, fraud, translation, celebrity culture in Asia,
Dr. Lisa Coulthard, PhD
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
film violence, film sound, film music, crime television and film, action cinema, the fight sequence in cinema, stuntwork in cinema, sonic immersion in media, sex in cinema, media violence, American cinema, European cinema, art films, cognitive studies and cinema, film theory, film philosophy, contemporary blockbusters, superhero films,
Gaoheng Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Italian-Chinese cultural relationships, Chinese migrations to Italy, gender in Italy, Italian media and cinema, Italian literature and culture, Italian colonial and postcolonial cultures, Italian travel and migration literature and cinema
Prof. Alessandra Santos, PhD
Associate Professor
Chair of Latin American Studies
Brazil, Brazilian literature and culture, Brazilian cinema, Brazilian music, Brazilian art, Brazilian current affairs, Amazon rain forest, Latin American literature, Latin American cinema,