Graduate Programs
Questions?
Program Assistant
Linda Meloche
519-661-3440
vagrads@uwo.ca
Graduate Chair
Christof Migone
cmigone@uwo.ca
Current PhD Students

Carolyn Bell Farrell
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian art; cultural memory and identity; art and ritual.

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

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

Ronique Gillis
Research Interests / Specializations: Black visual studies; Black ontology; Black bodies; colonialism/neocolonialism; decoloniality/decolonization; neoclassicism; contemporary art; British and American art.

Xi Jin
Research Interests / Specializations: Multimedia, installation, practices, materials, language, computational linguistics.

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

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
Research Interests / Specializations: Museums; Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Curating; Climate Change; Sustainability; Waste; Water.
Yijing Angela Li
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Art; Photography; East Asian Studies; Chinese studies.

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

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

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

Imogen Wilson
Image credit: Lucas CabralResearch Interests / Specializations: Net art, archiving, conservation in museums and DIY spaces, digital memory and media theory.



