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Assistant Professor & Graduate Program Director
BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
joshuasynenko@trentu.ca
705-748-1011 ext. 6164
Joshua Synenko is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Cultural Studies at Trent University (Canada). He is Co-Editor of Media Theory. He also serves as an Advisory Board member of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, and on Executive Board of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association.
Synenko’s research is situated between media and geography. His published work explores relationships between cities and mobility (migration, displacement, settlement), cinema and geography, practice-based research and artistic research, and experimental technologies for social engagement.
Synenko is open to supervising students pursuing cinema studies, media theory, social and political thought, and visual culture.
Forthcoming publications:
Synenko, J. Locative Art Revisited: Experimental Technologies for Social Engagement. Montreal: Concordia University Press. (under contract)
Synenko, J. "Digital Geographies." The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Cultural, Vol. 3: Digitsations, Transformations, and Futures, eds. Sandywell, B. and Hand, M. [June 2025].
Synenko, J., and Mergler, A. eds. (2024): “A Research-creation Episteme? Practice-based Research and Institutional Critique." Special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. [Dec 2024]
Recent publications:
Synenko, J. (2024) “Spectacularly Televised: U.S. Congress hearing on campus antisemitism reveals growing interference in educational policy.” No More Abysses, No More Walls. Kreuter, A., ed. Substack.
Synenko, J. (2023): “‘Where Does This World End?’ Space, Time, and Image in Harun Farocki’s Parrallel." Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 14.2, SI: Vibrant Materialities Across Media, Literature, and Theory, ed. Fan. L., and Tschofen, M.: pp. 175-206.
Synenko, J. ed. (2021): “Comparatism Now!” Special issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 48.2.
Synenko, J. “Library in Ruins: Digital Collections and the Idea of the University.” Re- viewing Comparative Literature in Canada, Ingram, S., and Sywenky, I., eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019: pp. 225-237.
Synenko, J. (2018): “Geolocating Popular Memory: Recorded Images of Hashima Island after Skyfall." Popular Communication, 15(2), SI: Memory and Human Rights, ed. Kaiser, S.: pp. 141-153.
Synenko, J. ed. (2018): “Geospatial Memory.” Special issue of Media Theory, 2.1.