Assistant Professor, Communication and Media Studies – LA&PS Tracy is an educator and social science researcher and proficient in mixed methods. Her research-creation projects explore the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, labour, body politics, cultural production, and settler colonial capitalism in inter-sectional feminist and transnational frameworks. Alongside academic research, she strives to support feminist and …
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Keira Loughran
Assistant Professor, Theatre, Dance and Performance – AMPD Keira has worked for over 25 years as an actor, director, playwright, dramaturg and producer. She is currently on faculty at York University, teaching Acting, Devised Theatre, Playwriting and Performance Creation at the undergraduate and graduate level. As the inaugural Associate Producer for the Forum and the …
Ingrid Veninger
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Arts – AMPD Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid Veninger has produced fifteen feature films with premieres at TIFF, Rotterdam, Busan, Rome, Hot Docs, amongst others. From narrative shorts, If You Were Me (2022) to feature documentaries, The World or Nothing (2019), her work captures poignant human experiences …
Allyson Mitchell
Associate Professor in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, LA&PS Allyson Mitchell’s individual and collaborative art practice uses sculpture, performance, installation, and film to explore feminist and queer ideas for research creation. These articulations have resulted in a fat activist group called Pretty Porky and Pissed Off, a coven of lesbian feminist Sasquatch monsters and a room-sized …
Emilia White
Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Integrative Arts Emilia White is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in object-based performance, fiber art and animation. She draws inspiration from early avant-garde movements such as Dada, Fluxus, and the Bauhaus Theatre, crafting humorous participatory performances designed to remove social barriers and foster inclusivity. Her projects use absurdity and autobiography to …
Gabrielle Moser
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education Gabrielle Moser is an art historian, writer, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press, 2019) and, with Adrienne Huard, co-edited a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on reparation (2022). A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA, she is …
Fabio Montanari
Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Arts Fabio Montanari is a Filmmaker and Professor, who has written series for top networks including Netflix, HBO, National Geographic and is the creator of an original TV series for Amazon Prime Video. His independent films have been screened in over 50 film festivals around the world including …
Gabriel Levine
Interim Associate Dean, Academic, AMPD, Sessional Assistant Professor of Drama and Creative Arts, Glendon Campus Gabriel Levine is the author of Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings (MIT Press 2020). He co-edited Practice (MIT/Whitechapel 2018), and his writing has appeared in publications including Performance Research, Liminalities, Journal of Curatorial Studies, and Canadian Theatre Review. He has released numerous musical recordings with groups …
Marissa Largo
Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies Dr. Marissa Largo (she/her) is a curator, educator, artist and researcher of Asian diasporic cultural production and its intersections with race, gender, and community engagement. Her projects have been presented in venues and events such as the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, A Space Gallery, Royal Ontario Museum, and Nuit Blanche …
Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theatre & Performance Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster is a Dora-award winner performer and theatre creator based in Toronto. She is a founding member of the theatre collective The Howland Company, a recent assistant artistic director at Tarragon Theatre and a recent resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre. She has performed across the continent …
