Supervisions

My students in the York-Toronto Metropolitan University Joint Graduate Program in Communications and Culture, and the TMU Literatures of Modernity program, write about documentary and experimental film, literature, digital media, sculpture, comics, bodies, and landscapes. They are also practicing writers, filmmakers, and visual artists. 

I am not currently accepting new graduate supervisions until after a sabbatical in 2024-25. 

Graduate Supervisions


 

Current PhD

    

Completed PhD

1.     Paul Couillard (PhD). “Rethinking Presence as a Thinking Body: Intra-Active Relationality and Animate Form.” York, Communications and Culture. July 23, 2021.

2.     Daniel Browne (PhD). “Mediated Landscapes: Technology and Environment in Recent Canadian Cinema.” TMU, Communications and Culture. April 29, 2020.

3.     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.

4.     Lai-Tze Fan (PhD). “Pre | Digital Liminalities: A Hermeneutics of

the Intermedial and Materiality in the Print Intermedial Novel. 2011-2016.

5.     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. 

6.     Aleksandra Bida (PhD). “Sweet-bitter Home: Roots/Routes and Identity.” 2008-2013.

7.     Kelly Egan (PhD). “Towards an Aesthetic of Visual Music: Film as Technological Transgression, Acoustic Space and Sounding the Absurd.” 2012.

8.     Angela Joosse (PhD) “Made from Movement: Marie Menken's Arabesque, Richard Serra's Torque, and Michael Snow's This & That.” 2011.

 

Current MA

 

1.     Eva Escandon (MA) Literatures of Modernity

2. Dylan Aslop (MA) "Metonymic Youth: A Case Study of Geo-Docs." Communications and Culture 


Completed MA

 

1.     Griffen Horsley (MA) Communications and Culture. “Remediating the Necromancer: Abstracted Photoscanning and the Materiality of Grief.” 

2.     Dhvani Ramanujam (MA). Communications and Culture. “Screening (Im)Materiality: On Virtually Programming planetary ruins & other possibilities.” August 24, 2022.

3. Quentin Stuckey (MA). Literatures of Modernity. “’All Eyes On Me’: Pandemic-Induced Mental Illness And Performance In Bo Burnham’s Inside.” August 2021

4.     Renée Leblanc Proctor (MA). “I am inevitable”: Seriality, Nostalgia and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. TMU. Communications and Culture. September 8, 2021

5.     Holly Chang. (MA) “Stitching the Story of Chinese-Canadian Histories: Quilting as an Archival Medium.” TMU. Communications and Culture. August 19, 2021.

6.     Kathleen Ballantyne (MA) “Viewing the Spectacular Body of Modernity: Bourgeois Identity and the Body of the Other.” TMU, Communications and Culture, August 23, 2021.

7.     Nicolle Payette (MA). “The Cinematic Subterranean: Investigating the Cultural Significance of The Underground Through Film.” TMU Communications and Culture, 2020.

8.     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

9.     Cossette Massa (MA). “Cinematic Inclusiveness: Horror Cinema’s Portrayal of Mental and Physical Disabilities.” Literatures of Modernity, 2020

10.  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.

11. Emma Sharpe (MA). “Feeled Recordings: An Embodied Exploration of Archival Ephemera.” Communications and Culture. 2016-2018.

12. 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.

13. Joey Medaglia (MA). “Re/Form: Becoming Visible.” 2004-2007.

14. Heather Davis (MA).  “Absence as the Mechanized Dreamwork of Colonial Landscapes.” 2003-2005.

15. Amanda Graham (MA). “Surfaces Tell Stories: Oscar Muñoz and the Art of Experiencing Images.” 2003-2005.

16. Joana Londono. “Hollywood and the Exoticization of Latin American Magic.” 2003-2005.

17. Evren Oszelcuk (MA). “Realist, Surrealist, Real-ist: Exploring Three Voices of Critique Through the Works of Luis Buñuel and Louis Althusser.”  2003-2005.

18. Malve Petersmann (MA).  “The Aura of the Everyday: Walter Benjamin, Ordinary Artefacts, and Museological Practice.”  2003-2004.

19. Erin Mackeen (MA).  “The Myth of Technological Salvation: Posthuman Promises for the Future and the Invisible Present of Techno-Evolution.” 2002- 2004.

20. Kelly Egan (MA). (Co-supervised with Bruce Elder). “The Site of Sound: Phenomenological Implications of Animated Sound Films.” 2001-2003.

21. Charles Finley (MA) “The Palimpsest of Discourse: A Framework for Comparative Urban Theory and Practice.” 2001- 2003.

22. Zena Haberman (MA). “Meaning-full Fictions: An Approach for Appreciating the Book in a Visual Culture.” 2001- 2003. 

23. Sara Chan (MA). (Co-supervised with Jody Berland) “Imaginary Soundscapes: Electronic Music Culture and the Aesthetics of the Virtual.” 2001- 2003. 

24. Christine Johns (MA). “Mapping the Canadian Landscape: The Performing Arts and Experiential Perspectives.” 2001-2003.

25. Etoile Stewart (MA).  (Co-supervised with Liora Salter) “Transgressive Actions and Public Space.” 2001-2003.

26. Emma Jo Aiken. (MA) “In the Slumber of the Interactive: Digital Technology and the Myth of Empowerment in Consumer Culture.” TMU University, Communications and Culture. Aug 28 2002.