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 …
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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 …
Archer Pechawis
Assistant Professor, Theatre & Performance Studies / Visual Art & Art History Archer Pechawis was born in Alert Bay, BC. He has been a practicing artist since 1984 with particular interest in the intersection of Plains Cree culture and digital technology, merging “traditional” objects such as hand drums with digital video and audio sampling. His …
Marlis Schweitzer
Professor, Theatre & Performance Studies Marlis Schweitzer is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at York University. She is the author of When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion and American Culture (2009), Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance (2015). Her most recent book, Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century (2020), …
Brenda Longfellow
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Arts Professor Longfellow has published articles on documentary, feminist film theory and Canadian cinema in Public, CineTracts, Screen, and the Journal of Canadian Film Studies. She is a co-editor (with Scott MacKenzie and Tom Waugh) of the anthology The Perils of Pedagogy: the Works of John Greyson (2013) and Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women Filmmakers (1992). Her documentaries …