Current PhD Students

Aaron Ambroso

Aaron Ambroso



Carolyn Bell Farrell

Carolyn Bell Farrell



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian art; cultural memory and identity; art and ritual.
Emily-Anne Cadotte

Emily-Anne Cadotte



Research Interests / Specializations: The intersection of art and politics, public arts policy, regionalisms and regional galleries, subject positions within the museum, socially engaged art/social practice, taste and social class.
Calla  Elia

Calla Elia



Research Interests / Specializations: Disability studies, architectural space and design, ethics of accommodation, agency, and identity.
Behnaz  Fatemi Jahmani

Behnaz Fatemi Jahmani



Research Interests / Specializations: Research-creation, diaspora studies, performance drawing, installation, durational performance, sound studies, cultural translation, museum archives, material culture, embodied knowledge, archival silencing, decolonial approaches to museum display, Iranian and Middle Eastern visual culture.
Brittany Forrest

Brittany Forrest



Research Interests / Specializations: Sexual Manifestations, Gender Dysphoria, Perception Fabrications, Conditioning, Alienation, Mnemonic Memories.
Ronique Gillis

Ronique Gillis



Research Interests / Specializations: Black visual studies; Black ontology; Black bodies; colonialism/neocolonialism; decoloniality/decolonization; neoclassicism; contemporary art; British and American art.
Alexis  Gros-Louis

Alexis Gros-Louis



Xi Jin

Xi Jin



Research Interests / Specializations: Multimedia, installation, practices, materials, language, computational linguistics.
Jessica Joyce

Jessica Joyce



Research Interests / Specializations: Oil painting, portraiture, urban landscape, community art, climate change.
Masha Kouznetsova

Masha Kouznetsova



Research Interests / Specializations: Installation, improvisation, radio and transmission art, materiality and texture of sound, re/fragmentation of materials and found objects, pinhole and cameraless photography, drawing, experimental writing, translation and inbetweenness, place and placelessness.
Katie Lawson

Katie Lawson



Research Interests / Specializations: Museums; Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Curating; Climate Change; Sustainability; Waste; Water.
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Yijing Angela Li

Yijing Angela Li



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Art; Photography; East Asian Studies; Chinese studies.
Derek Liddington

Derek Liddington



Ashar Mobeen

Ashar Mobeen



Research Interests / Specializations: Cosmology and visual culture; science and speculative thought; cultural transmission and translation; decolonization; epistemic justice; ecocriticism and climate humanities.
Melanie Naples

Melanie Naples



Margherita Papadatos

Margherita Papadatos



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary art, new media, installation art, continental philosophy, the sublime, time, space, memory, affect.
Danielle Petti

Danielle Petti



Research Interests / Specializations: Material agency, Foraged and natural pigments, geological timescales, ecological aesthetics, Cross-disciplinary research
Racquel  Rowe

Racquel Rowe



Natalie  Scola

Natalie Scola



Rojina Sebatiashraf

Rojina Sebatiashraf



Amy Skodak

Amy Skodak



Imogen Wilson

Imogen Wilson

Image credit: Lucas Cabral

Research Interests / Specializations: Net art, archiving, conservation in museums and DIY spaces, digital memory and media theory.