Susan Cahill

PhD

Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts , Department of Art and Art History

Contact information

susan.cahill@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Art History, Queen's University, 2012

M.A. Art History, Queen's University, 2007

B.A. English Literature (Theatre Arts specialization), Memorial University, 2002

Research

Areas of Research

Contemporary creative practice in relation to surveillance, gender, histories of whiteness, and settler colonialism in Canada

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Human dynamics in a changing world

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
ARHI 211	Writing and Art History
ARHI 305	Canadian Art History
ARHI 333	Contemporary Art & Architecture
ARHI 431	Art and the Body
ARHI 615	Conference Course in Art History
ART 609	Art Theory and Criticism

Publications

Surveillance Frontierism: Art and the colonial project of surveillance. Susan Cahill. Media Practice and Education. 128-146. (2023)
The Planet as Archive. Susan Cahill and Mél Hogan. Un-/Learning Archives in the Age of the Sixth Extinction. (2022)
Diagnosis of a Planetary Condition. Susan Cahill and Mél Hogan. NEXTGATe, special issue on Sustainable Academia. (2022)
Surveillance Frontierism. Susan Cahill. Heliotrope. (2021)
Imagining Creative Futures, special thematic issue . Susan Cahill and Bryce Newell. Surveillance & Society . (2021)
The Fabric of History: The Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework in fin-de-siècle New England. Susan Cahill. Massachusetts Historical Review . 1-40. (2020)
Visual Art, Corporeal Economies, and the "New Normal" of Surveillant Policing in the War on Terror. Susan Cahill. Surveillance & Society . 352-366. (2019)
Almost Home (Documentary Film). Written by Susan Cahill, Co-Directed by Susan Cahill and Matthew Rogers, Produced by Susan Cahill and Frictive Pictures. (2018)
The Elsewhere War: Art, Embodiment, and the Spaces of Military Engagement. Susan Cahill. Journal of Canadian Studies . 636-664. (2017)
Killjoys, Academic Citizenship, and the Politics of Getting Along. Heather Igloliorte, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Erin Morton, Charmaine A. Nelson, Cheli Nighttraveller, AJ Ripley, Carla Taunton, Tamara Vukov, Susan Cahill, and Kristy Holmes. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies . 187-208. (2017)
Affective Terrains: Art, War, and National Belonging. Susan Cahill. Canadian Military History Journal . 1-24. (2016)

The Art & Surveillance Project

In the News

Ashley Miller, interview with Susan Cahill, "Back to Clattice Harbour: An abandoned community seen through the eyes of the next generation". Downhome.
Lauren Power, interview with Susan Cahill, “‘I’ve Never Been to Clattice Harbour”: New Doc Will Capture Parents’ Return to Resettled Community”. The Overcast .