Our researchers
Department of Communication, Media and Film researchers are involved with a broad variety of research interests
Maria Bakardjieva
PhD (Communication) Simon Fraser University; PhD (Sociology) Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Research interests
- Computer mediated communication
- Internet use
- Media and democracy
- New media and society
- Social aspects of communication technology
Lee Carruthers
PhD (Film Studies) University of Chicago
Research interests
- Cinematic time
- Classical and contemporary cinema
- European art cinema
- Film history
- Film theory
- Philosophical hermeneutics
Julia Chan
PhD (Cultural Studies) Queen's University,
Research interests
- Digital Media
- Media, Race, and Gender
- Surveillance and Culture
- Visual Culture
- Horror Film
- Research Creation
Matthew Croombs
Research interests
- Documentary film
- Transnational cinema
- Critical communications studies
- Film and media theory
Charlene Elliott
PhD (Communication) Carleton
Research interests
- Food marketing/branding
- Obesity and public health
- Taste and communication
- Communication theory
- Children and media studies
- Sensorial communication
- Food Studies
Marcia Epstein
PhD (Medieval Studies / Musicology) University of Toronto
Research interests
- Acoustic ecology
- History and sociology of music
- Musical rhetoric
- Music therapy
Ronald Glasberg
PhD (History) University of Toronto
Research interests
- History of ideas
- Interdisciplinary theory
- Knowledge unification strategies
- Popular culture
- World history
Maria Victoria Guglietti
Research interests
- Journalism studies
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Indigenous new media in Canada
- Transnationalism and postcolonial theory
Dawn Johnston
PhD (Communications Studies) University of Calgary
Research interests
- Food culture
- Gender and sexuality in popular culture
- Social activism
- Television and film
Ali Karimi
PhD McGill University
Research interests
- Critical Information Studies
- Surveillance
- Data Justice
- Privacy
- Media History
- Global Communication
Jessalynn Keller
PhD - Media Studies University of Texas-Austin
Research interests
- Digital media cultures
- Feminist theory and methods, including critical race and queer theories
- Popular and celebrity culture
- Girls' media and cultures
- Historical and contemporary feminisms
- Social activism and media
Ryan Pierson
PhD (English) University of Pittsburg
Research interests
- Animation
- Digital media
- Classical film theory
- Film and perception
- History of science
Annie Rudd
PhD (Communications) Columbia University
Research interests
- Critical media studies
- History and theory of photography, particularly the histories of vernacular photographies
- Photojournalism and documentary photography
- History of journalism
- North American and British cultural and intellectual history from 1800 to the present
- History of philosophy
- Cultural theory
Tamara Shepherd
PhD (Communication Studies) Concordia University
Research interests
- Feminist political economy
- Digital culture
- New media policy and internet regulation
- Social media and digital games labour
- Mobile technologies
- Youth cultural production and digital literacy
- Privacy and intellectual property online
Tania Smith
PhD (English) Ohio State University
Research interests
- Rhetorical communication
- New media and society
- Internet communities and culture
- Rhetorical history
- Professional communication
Paul Stortz
Ph.D. (History of higher education) University of Toronto
Research interests
- Cultural, Social, Political, Ethnic, Gender, and Intellectual History of Education and Universities
- Theories of Interdisciplinarity, Intellectual Culture, and Knowledge Construction
- Postcolonial historical and educational theories
- Canadian Immigration History and Policy
- History of Refugee Academic Emigres and Researchers In Canada
Lisa Stowe
PhD (Adult Learning) University of Calgary
Research interests
- Lifelong learning
- Food studies
- Rhetorical communication
- Multidimensional learning
- Sport and identity
Gregory Taylor
PhD (Communication Studies) McGill University
Research interests
- Broadcasting policy
- Spectrum
- Infrastructure studies
- Telecommunications policy
- Canadian media history
Charles Tepperman
PhD (Film Studies) University of Chicago
Research interests
- Amateur media
- Fan cultures and new media
- History of motion pictures
- Home movies
- Media archive and film preservation
- Motion picture technology and audiences
- Canadian cinema
Samantha Thrift
Research interests
- Feminist cultural studies
- Digital media activism
- Political communication
- Race and representation
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