Our Faculty and Staff

Core Faculty

**Susan Brown**
Professor School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, CTS Faculty Advisor
Email: sbrown@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519-824-4120 x53266
Office: MacKinnon 412

**Areas of specialization:** digital humanities, critical infrastructure studies, linked open data, Victorian writing, feminist theory and literary history

**Teaching:**

CTS 3030 Summer Workshop

Past supervisions include projects on semantically encoded profiles of women writers; authorship attribution; gaming and subjectivity; an online collection of alternative song lyrics; linked open data; ontologies; the internet and literary theory; hypertext and postmodernism.

**Kim Martin**
Associate Professor, History, CTS
Email: kmarti20@uoguelph.ca
Office: MCKN 1003

**Areas of Specialization:** Serendipity in digital environments, linked open data, inclusive makerspaces, digital history pedagogy, digital humanities.

**On Sabbatical 2025 / 2026.**

Available for project supervision in areas including oral history, augmented reality, critical making, digital history, information behaviour, feminism and technology, and anything related to the study of serendipity!

**Paul Barrett**
Associate Professor, School of English, Theatre, & Creative Writing, CTS.
Email: barrettp@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519-824-4120 x53135

**Areas of Specialization: d**igital humanities, Canadian literature, critical race theory.

**Teaching:**

CTS*1000 Keywords in Culture and Technology Studies

CTS*4010 Project Management and Prototyping

Available for project supervision in video game studies, literary analysis, social media analysis, and depictions of difference online.

**Chelsea Miya**
Assistant Professor, School of English, Theatre, & Creative Writing, CTS.
Email: cmiya@uoguelph.ca
Office: MCKN 1003

**Areas of Specialization:** digital archives, ethical and sustainable design, environmental literature, 19th century literature, podcasting

**Teaching:**

CTS*2000 Scripting for Humanities

CTS*3000 Data and Difference

CTS*4000 Digital Publishing

Affiliated Faculty

**Samantha Brennan**
Dean, College of Arts, University of Guelph | Professor, Philosophy
Email: sjbrennan@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519-824-4120 X53301
Office: Dean's Office Suite, Mackinnon Extension

**Areas of specialization:** Moral theory, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, feminist ethics

**Teaching:**Available for project supervision in areas connected to ethics and feminist philosophy.

**Kim Francis**
Director, School of Fine Art and Music
Email: kfranc02@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519-824-4120 x52362
Office: Zavitiz Hall
Lab: 203

**Areas of Specialization:** Feminist musicology; Nadia Boulanger; 19th- and 20th-century France; medicine and music; occultism and religion.

**Teaching:** Available for project supervision in areas connected to digital pedagogy tools, feminist musicology.

**Dan Gillis**
Associate Professor & Statistician, School of Computer Science
Email: dgillis@uoguelph.ca
Phone Number: 519 824-4120
Office: Reynolds 3323

**Areas of Specialization:** Transdisciplinary Pedagogy, Risk Assessment, Community-engaged Software Design, Bridging the Digital Divide

**Teaching:** Guest Lecturer. Available for project supervision in areas connected to software design, statistics, and accessibility in technology.

**Peter Kuling**
Assistant Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies
Email: pkuling@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519 824-4120 x 52933
Office: Massey 104C

**Areas of Specialization:** Early Modern Theatre History, Canadian Literature and Theatre, Performance Studies, Digital Multimedia, Video Games, Devising, Dramaturgy/Playwriting.

**Teaching:** Guest Lecturer. Available for project supervision in areas connected to digital multimedia, video game making, and performance.

**Kristie MacDonald**
Assistant Professor, School of Fine Art and Music
Email: kristie.macdonald@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519-824-4120 x56854
Office: 407 Zavitz Hall

**Areas of Specialization:** Visual art, contemporary art, copies and multiples, archives and collections, printmaking, photography

**Teaching:** SART*3470 Printmaking and Photo/Digital Technologies, SART*2460 Printmaking I, Guest Lecturer. Available for project supervision in areas connected to memory and making, archives and archival theory, preservation and material culture, printmaking and expanded print practices, photography, and contemporary art.

**Sandra Parmegiani**
Associate Professor, European Studies, Head of Italian Studies
School of Languages and Literatures
Email: sparmegi@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519-824-4120 x54989
Office: MacKinnon 275

**Areas of Specialization:** Anglo-Italian relations in Eighteenth century literature and journalism, contemporary Italian literature, digital humanities.

**Teaching:** Guest Lecturer.

Available for project supervision in areas connected to community digital heritage, collaborative digital research, journalism, Italian literature, European literature and culture.

**Joshua August (Gus) Skoburg**
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Email: skorburg@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: (519) 824–4120 ×56464
Office: MCK 336

**Area of Specialization:** Applied ethics in relation to data science, AI, machine learning.

**Teaching:** Guest Lecturer.

Available for project supervision in projects related to data science, AI and machine learning.

**Alyssa Woods**
Assistant Professor, School of Fine Art and Music
Email: awoods08@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 519-824-4120 x54985
Office: Johnston Hall, Rm 113

**Area of Specialization:** Race and gender representations in music, music as storytelling, music theory and socio-cultural analysis,

**Teaching:** Available for project supervision in areas connected to race and gendered representations, storytelling in music, gender and race in popular music.

Available for project supervision in projects related to data science, AI and machine learning.

Program Support

Jade Ferguson, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs
Phone number: 519-824-4120, ext. 54344
Office: MacKinnon 128

Marie Ann O'Neill: Administrative Assistant to the Director of Interdisciplinary Programs
Office: Mackinnon, Room 128
Phone: 519-824-4120 x54388
Email: artsidp@uoguelph.ca

Susan Brown: CTS Faculty Advisor
Office: MacKinnon 412 or THINC Lab (Library 2nd floor)
Phone: 519-824-4120 x53266 (accepts messages)
Email: sbrown@uoguelph.ca

Paul Barett: CTS Co-op Advisor
Office: MacKinnon Extension 1001 or THINC Lab (Library 2nd floor)
Email: barrettp@uoguelph.ca

Program Counselling

Bachelor of Arts Academic Counselling Office

BACO
Office: 130 MacKinnon Building
Phone: 519 824-4120 x52140
Email: baco@uoguelph.ca

Office Hours:
Monday through Friday 8:30am –12:00pm; 1:00pm – 4:30pm

Program Information and Requirements

Bachelor of Arts

Culture & Technology Studies Program

CTS Course Descriptions