Get to know your Undergraduate Faculty
Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez
Acting Chair, Cultural Studies
Professor (On Sabbatical)
Ph.D. (Granada)
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7095
Email: acazorla@trentu.ca
Martin Arnold
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
BMus (Alberta), MMus (Victoria), PhD (Victoria)
Traill College, martinarnold@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Experimental music, the cultural politics of the experimental, the wonderful, musical mediations/intertextualities/ecologies, African-American music, Celtic music, narrative and not narrating.
Jessica Marion Barr
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Bachelor of Arts & Science
PhD (Queen's)
Lady Eaton College, Ext. 7202, jessicabarr@trentu.ca
Victoria de Zwaan
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Trent), MA (McGill) PhD (Toronto)
Traill College, ext. 6092, vdezwaan@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Experimental and speculative fiction, literary theory, cultural theory, history and development of cultural studies, adaptation studies, aesthetics.
Kelly Egan
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Carleton), MA (York/Ryerson), MFA (Bard), PhD (York/Ryerson)
Traill College, ext. 6042, kellyegan@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Avant-garde cinema, media arts, media archaeology, film preservation and archival theory, aesthetics, visual culture, materiality.
Hugh Elton
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Sheffield), DPhil (Oxford)
Lady Eaton College, ext. 7838, hughelton@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Politics and culture in the late Roman near east.
Michael Epp
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Saskatchewan), MA (McGill), PhD (Alberta)
Traill College, ext. 6252, michaelepp@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Violent labor, Irish republicanism, American literature and culture, emotion and affect, and theories of publics.
Hugh Hodges
Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
Graduate Faculty, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts),
PhD Cultural Studies
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Traill College, ext. 7733, hughhodges@trentu.ca
Reseach Interests: African, West Indian, Black British and South Asian literature, oral traditions and popular music, postcolonial theory.
Ihor Junyk
Professor, Cultural Studies and English Literature
Coordinator, Journalism and Creative Writing
BA Hons. (UWO), MA (Queen’s), PhD (University of Chicago)
Durham Campus, ext. 6052, ihorjunyk@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modernism and the avant-garde; war, trauma, memory (particularly in Ukraine); exile, displacement, diaspora; creative writing; visual culture; popular music
Liam Mitchell
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Media Studies
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)
Traill College, ext. 6072, liammitchell@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Game studies, media theory, political theory, cultural politics, social media, Heidegger, Foucault.
Alan O’Connor
Professor, Cultural Studies
BA (Trinity College, Dublin), MA, PhD (York)
Durham Campus, ext. 5030, aoconnor@trentu.ca
Anne Pasek
Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment
BA (University of Alberta), MA (McGill), PhD (New York University)
Traill College, ext. 6052, annepasek@trentu.ca
Research Interests: climate change, energy/environmental humanities, science communication, visual culture, new materialisms, infrastructure, cultural politics
James Penney
Professor, Cultural Studies and French & Francophone Studies
Co-Director, Cultural Studies Graduate Programs
BA, MA (Alberta), PhD (Duke)
Traill College, ext. 6075, jamespenney@trentu.ca
Research Interests: James Penney is a cultural theorist whose work is situated at the various intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy.
Joshua Synenko
Assistant Professor & Graduate Program Director
Cultural Studies
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
Traill College, ext. 6164, joshuasynenko@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Cities and mobility (migration, displacement, settlement), cinema and media studies, practice-based research/artistic research, media geography.
Emeritus & Retired Faculty
Zsuzsa Baross, Professor Emerita
zbaross@trentu.ca
Jonathan Bordo, Professor Emeritus
jbordo@trentu.ca
Richard Dellamora, Professor Emeritus
rdellamora@trentu.ca
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, Professor Emerita
ermarth@trentu.ca
John Fekete, Professor Emeritus
jfekete@trentu.ca
Veronica Hollinger, Professor Emerita
vhollinger@trentu.ca
Ian McLachlan, Professor Emeritus
imclachlan@trentu.ca
Andrew Wernick, Professor Emeritus
awernick@trentu.ca