Research Associates

Research Associates participate in the intellectual and creative life of Sensorium, submit and administer grants through the Centre, and/or are active in a research cluster, and in organizing workshops and conferences.

Marissa Largo

Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies

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 pres …


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Laura Levin

Associate Professor, Theatre; Associate Dean Research, AMPD

Laura Levin is Associate Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies and Associate Dean, Research in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design. Her research focuses on site-specific, immersive, and urban intervention performance; performing gender and sexuality; activist and political performance; performance, human rights, and environmental justice; intermedial and digital performance; research-creation methodologies; and performance theory.


Gabriel Levine

Interim Associate Dean, Academic, AMPD, Sessional Assistant Professor of Drama and Creative Arts, Glendon Campus

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), an …


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Nina Levitt

Associate Professor, Visual Art & Art History

Nina Levitt works in photography, video, sculpture and interactive technologies. Her practice is primarily concerned with the ways women have been imaged and imagined in popular culture.


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Brenda Longfellow

Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Arts

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 MacK …


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Michael Longford

Associate Professor; Graduate Program Director, Digital Media

Michael Longford’s creative work and research activities reside at the intersection of photography, graphic design and digital media. He has exhibited and presented his work at national and international exhibitions and conferences.


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Janine Marchessault

Professor, Cinema & Media Studies; Inaugural Sensorium Director

Janine Marchessault is a professor in Cinema and Media Arts and holds a York Research Chair in Media Art and Social Engagement. Her research has engaged with four areas: the history of large screen media (from multiscreen to Imax to media as architecture and VR); diverse models of public art, festivals, and site specific curation; 21st century moving-image archives and notions of collective memory/history.


Allyson Mitchell

Associate Professor in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, LA&PS

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 art …


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