Our Faculty

Faculty Name and Rank

Department/School

Research Areas

Paula Barata, Associate Professor

Psychology, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

Applied social psychology, women’s health and well-being, sexual assault and violence

Amanda Boetzkes, Professor

Art History, College of Arts

Ecology and feminism, modern and postmodern art, climate change

Diane Borsato, Associate Professor

Fine Art, College of Arts

Extended practices, social and interventionist practices to fine art, interdisciplinary and extended art

Samantha Brennan, Dean, College of Arts, Professor

Philosophy, College of Arts

Contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics, feminist philosophy, women’s fitness

Susan Brown, Professor

English and Culture and Technology Studies

Digital history; digital humanities; gender and technology

Julie Cairnie, Professor

English, College of Arts

Southern African literature, land crisis and the crisis of childhood in Zimbabwean literature, Canadian Indigenous-Settler relationships, postcolonial sport

Catherine Carstairs, Professor

History, College of Arts

Gender history, food history, history of health and medicine, alcohol and drug history

Dawn Cornelio, Professor

French, School of Languages and Literatures

Traduction littéraire (théorie et pratique), autofiction et l’écriture féminine contemporaine, les écrits de Chloé Delaume

Adam Davies, Assistant Professor

Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

Early childhood education & care, queer theory, critical disability studies, masculinities studies, poststructural theory, inclusion, feminist theory, LGBTQ+ identity, sexuality education, K-12 schooling, queer and trans theory, sociology of childhood and youth. 

Jade Ferguson, Associate Professor

English, College of Arts

19th to mid-20th century Canadian literature, Civil Rights Movement literature and photography, New Southern Studies, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality

Kimberly Francis, Professor

Music, College of Arts

Feminist musicology, French music 1800-1970, Nadia Boulanger, history of music pedagogy, occultism, medicine and music

Karyn Freedman, Associate Professor

Philosophy, College of Arts

Feminist epistemology, trauma and gender inequality, violence against women

Sally Hickson, Associate Professor

Art History, College of Arts

Women and friendship, Renaissance Italy, 20th Canadian women artists, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Troy Hourie, Assistant Professor

Theatre, College of Arts

Scenographic/performance design, installation art, art history, architecture and theatre design; current work revolves around the themes of wonder, immersion, spectatorship and intermediality

Margot Irvine, Professor

French, College of Arts

Women’s writing, twentieth-century French women, women in early colonial Canadian history

Mark Lipton, Professor

Media Studies, College of Arts

Digital knowledge production, activism, educational technology, social inclusion, digital storytelling, social justice, confronting sexism, health, wellness, privacy, surveillance, bio-hacking, bio-art,  performance, identity, queer theory, LGBTQ+ youth, camp.

Linda Mahood, Professor

History, College of Arts

Childhood and youth studies, Canadian history

Kimberley Martin, Assistant Professor

History and Culture and Technology Studies

Serendipity in the historical research process; digital history; digital humanities; gender and technology; role of Makerspace in academia 

Carla Rice, Canada Research Chair in Care, Gender, and Relationships, Professor

Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

Activist art, art and social justice, body image and eating disorders, social inclusion

Patricia Sheridan, Associate Professor

Philosophy, College of Arts

Women thinkers of the early modern period, virtue in  Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Anne Conway, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, as well as in John Locke

Norman Smith, Professor

History, College of Arts

Modern China, Chinese women’s history, Manchuria

Christina Smylitopoulos, Associate Professor

Art History, College of Arts

Eighteenth-century satirical art, the long eighteenth-century, art curation, European Age of Exploration

John Walsh, Assistant Professor

Classics, College of Arts

Transgender identities in classical Rome, Alexander the Great, gender, heroism, masculinity and the feminine in antiquity and Greek notions of sexuality. 

Alyssa Woods, Assistant Professor

Music, College of Arts

Popular music, especially race, gender, and politics in hip-hop music and culture