Current PhDs
Fizza Mir. York University.
Azadeh Monzavi. The Living Matri(archives): Making Material Connections. Toronto Metropolitan University. Co-supervised with Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.
Completed PhD
Paul Couillard (PhD). “Rethinking Presence as a Thinking Body: Intra-Active Relationality and Animate Form.” York, Communications and Culture. July 23, 2021.
Daniel Browne (PhD). “Mediated Landscapes: Technology and Environment in Recent Canadian Cinema.” TMU, Communications and Culture. April 29, 2020.
Brooke Ford (PhD). “The Case for Graphic Counter-Memorials in The Comics of Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli” Co-supervised with Andrew O’Malley. TMU, Communications and Culture. August 14, 2017.
Lai-Tze Fan (PhD). “Pre | Digital Liminalities: A Hermeneutics of
the Intermedial and Materiality in the Print Intermedial Novel. 2011-2016.
Evren Oczelcuk (PhD). “Turkey’s Internal Other: Embodiments of Taşra in the Works of Orhan Pamuk, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Fatih Akin.” York University, Communications and Culture. 2005 - 2015.
Aleksandra Bida (PhD). “Sweet-bitter Home: Roots/Routes and Identity.” 2008-2013.
Kelly Egan (PhD). “Towards an Aesthetic of Visual Music: Film as Technological Transgression, Acoustic Space and Sounding the Absurd.” 2012.
Angela Joosse (PhD) “Made from Movement: Marie Menken's Arabesque, Richard Serra's Torque, and Michael Snow's This & That.” 2011.
Completed MA
Eva Escandon (MA). “Drinking ‘The Devil's Piss’: Arguing Environmental Rights as Human Rights Through Film.” Literatures of Modernity. Aug 2024.
Dylan Aslop (MA) “Climate Crisis, Youth, and Media: A Story Analysis of Geo-Doc Videos as Agents for Social Transformation.” Communications and Culture. August 13, 2024.
Griffen Horsley (MA) Communications and Culture. “Remediating the Necromancer: Abstracted Photoscanning and the Materiality of Grief.” September 5, 2023.
Dhvani Ramanujam. Communications and Culture. “Screening (Im)Materiality: On Virtually Programming planetary ruins & other possibilities.” August 24, 2022.
Quentin Stuckey (MA). Literatures of Modernity. “’All Eyes On Me’: Pandemic-Induced Mental Illness And Performance In Bo Burnham’s Inside.” August 2021
Renée Leblanc Proctor (MA). “I am inevitable”: Seriality, Nostalgia and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. TMU. Communications and Culture. September 8, 2021
Holly Chang. (MA) “Stitching the Story of Chinese-Canadian Histories: Quilting as an Archival Medium.” TMU. Communications and Culture. August 19, 2021.
Kathleen Ballantyne (MA) “Viewing the Spectacular Body of Modernity: Bourgeois Identity and the Body of the Other.” TMU, Communications and Culture, August 23, 2021.
Nicolle Payette (MA). “The Cinematic Subterranean: Investigating the Cultural Significance of The Underground Through Film.” TMU Communications and Culture, 2020.
Charlene Chow (MA). “Not Orphée.” “No, Never Him.”: Reclaiming Female Agency From Ovid’s “Orpheus And Eurydice” In Alice Munro’s “The Children Stay” And Céline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. Literatures of Modernity, 2020
Cossette Massa (MA). “Cinematic Inclusiveness: Horror Cinema’s Portrayal of Mental and Physical Disabilities.” Literatures of Modernity, 2020
Emily Pleasance (MA). “A/R/Tography as a Method of Awe: An A/R/Tographic Inquiry of The Canadian North.” Communications and Culture. 2016-2018.
Emma Sharpe (MA). “Feeled Recordings: An Embodied Exploration of Archival Ephemera.” Communications and Culture. 2016-2018.
Rebecca Martin (MA). “To Bind a Narrative: Material Knowledge and the Creation of a Series of Artist’s Books for Tina Anderson.” Literatures of Modernity. 2016-2017.
Joey Medaglia (MA). “Re/Form: Becoming Visible.” 2004-2007.
Heather Davis (MA). “Absence as the Mechanized Dreamwork of Colonial Landscapes.” 2003-2005.
Amanda Graham (MA). “Surfaces Tell Stories: Oscar Muñoz and the Art of Experiencing Images.” 2003-2005.
Joana Londono. “Hollywood and the Exoticization of Latin American Magic.” 2003-2005.
Evren Oszelcuk (MA). “Realist, Surrealist, Real-ist: Exploring Three Voices of Critique Through the Works of Luis Buñuel and Louis Althusser.” 2003-2005.
Malve Petersmann (MA). “The Aura of the Everyday: Walter Benjamin, Ordinary Artefacts, and Museological Practice.” 2003-2004.
Erin Mackeen (MA). “The Myth of Technological Salvation: Posthuman Promises for the Future and the Invisible Present of Techno-Evolution.” 2002- 2004.
Kelly Egan (MA). (Co-supervised with Bruce Elder). “The Site of Sound: Phenomenological Implications of Animated Sound Films.” 2001-2003.
Charles Finley (MA) “The Palimpsest of Discourse: A Framework for Comparative Urban Theory and Practice.” 2001- 2003.
Zena Haberman (MA). “Meaning-full Fictions: An Approach for Appreciating the Book in a Visual Culture.” 2001- 2003.
Sara Chan (MA). (Co-supervised with Jody Berland) “Imaginary Soundscapes: Electronic Music Culture and the Aesthetics of the Virtual.” 2001- 2003.
Christine Johns (MA). “Mapping the Canadian Landscape: The Performing Arts and Experiential Perspectives.” 2001-2003.
Etoile Stewart (MA). (Co-supervised with Liora Salter) “Transgressive Actions and Public Space.” 2001-2003.
Emma Jo Aiken. “In the Slumber of the Interactive: Digital Technology and the Myth of Empowerment in Consumer Culture.” TMU University, Communications and Culture. Aug 28 2002.