Full-Time Faculty
For a full listing of all faculty and staff, please .Alena Robin
Department Chair, Associate Professor, Art HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: Latin American Art; Colonial Mexico (New Spain); Religious Art; Passion of Christ; Collections and exhibitions of art from Latin America in Canada;Early Modern Theories of Art and Artistic Literature in the Hispanic World; Historiography of Viceregal Painting in New Spain.
Christof Migone
Graduate Chair, Associate Professor, Studio ArtResearch Interests / Specializations: sound art; performance and performativity; video; rhythmics and kinetics; curatorial practice; uncreative writing; politics of the quotidian; conceptual strategies; failure tactics, taciturntablism.
Sarah Bassnett
Undergraduate Chair, Professor, Art HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: histories and theories of photography, especially in relation to issues of power and resistance, social crisis and reform, and movements for social change; late nineteenth and early twentieth-century art and visual culture, with an emphasis on cities and modernity; contemporary art, especially photo-based practices; museum and exhibition histories as they relate to nation building and liberalism.
Cody Barteet
Associate Professor, Art HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; architecture and urbanism; Latin American art; Pre-Columbian art; cross-cultural exchange; and gender and feminist studies.
Tanya Doody
Assistant Professor, Studio ArtResearch Interests / Specializations: Ceramics, materiality, embodied knowledge, empathy, the handmade, site engaged art, contemporary art, craft and design, material culture, performance and performativity, sculpture, sustainability in art practices, witchcraft, AI
Sky Glabush
Associate Professor, Visual Arts Studio, PaintingResearch Interests / Specializations: visual art practice, with a focus on contemporary painting; drawing and image-based practices; interdisciplinary studio; critical theory.
John Hatch
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: 20th-century art, art theory, and architecture, specifically Dada and Neo-Dada; Post-WWII European and American Art; early abstract art (1910-1940); intersections between art and science.
Tricia Johnson
Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Studio FoundationsResearch Interests / Specializations: Printmaking and print media, specifically linocut and intaglio, drawing, fibre and textile-based practices, visual art pedagogy
Jessica Karuhanga
Assistant Professor, Studio ArtsResearch Interests / Specializations: Performance, performativity, experimental music, Black Diasporic concerns, Black liberation, new media, digital media, lens-based technologies, Disability justice, drawing and movement.
Soheila Kolahdouz Esfahani
Assistant Professor, Studio ArtsResearch Interests / Specializations: Installation & site-specific art; sculpture; conceptual art; postcolonial/decolonial art/theory; visual arts in Diaspora, cross cultural exchange; cultural translation; Islamic art & visual culture
Jackson Leween, Two Bears, Ph.D. (T茅keniy谩hsen Ohkw谩:ri)
Associate Professor, Visual Arts and Indigenous StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: Studio practice, installation, interactive, performance, video, sound, interdisciplinary practices, indigenous creative and cultural practice, multimedia, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence
Sheri Osden Nault
Assistant Professor, Studio ArtResearch Interests / Specializations: Cross-disciplinary studio art practice including: sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, and digital media; anti-colonial and Indigenous art, theory, and pedagogy; Critical queer, disability, feminist, and ecological theory; Indigenous Tattoo Revival
Kirsty Robertson
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Museums, Art, and Sustainability; Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies; Professor, Museum and Curatorial StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: contemporary art; art and activism; surveillance and art; contemporary craft, textiles and fibre arts; wearable technologies; and museum and curatorial studies.
Daniela Sneppova
Associate Professor, Visual Arts/Information and Media StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: contemporary art practice with a focus on media art, film, animation, video and digital imaging; visual culture studies; Czech culture with a focus on the totalitarian regime of 1968-1989 and practices of resistance; performance and gender studies.
Christine Sprengler (on sabbatical)
Professor, Art HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: cinematic installation art; new media art; relationships between cinema and the visual arts; cultural memory and nostalgia in visual culture; representations of history in contemporary cinema and television (British and American)
Kelly Wood
Associate Professor, Studio Contemporary Art and PhotographyResearch Interests / Specializations: studio photography; histories and theories of photography; contemporary art and art theory; art and environmentalism; waste economies.