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Ruoyun Bai
Ruoyun Bai
Assistant Professor Global Asia Studies / Media Studies

Bio: Ruoyun Bai received her Ph.D. in Communications from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Global Asia Studies, and Chinese Literature and Culture in University of Toronto. Her research interests include critical media studies, Chinese media and cultural studies, media organizations and practices in the context of globalization, women and Asian modernities, and the Internet and youth culture in China. She co-edited "TV Drama in China" and is writing a book "Staging the Crisis of Capitalism - Corruption in Chinese Primetime Television."

Corinne Beauquis
Corinne Beauquis
Senior Lecturer French

Areas of Research: Haitian Literature; Québec XXth Century Literature; Migrant Literature; Identity Bio: Educated at the University of Western Ontario. Researches Haitian and Quebec literature, with a focus on migrant literature. Academic interests include the issues of migration, identity, revolution, Americanness and the literary institution. Co-editor of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Newsletter. Teaches several French language and literature courses including Literary History in Context and Haitian Migrant Literature from Québec. Is the Academic advisor for the Concurrent Teacher Education Program (French). Will teach the course on the Culture of Touraine for the 2010 Tours exchange program.
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Daniel Bender
Daniel Bender
Associate Professor History

Areas of Research: American Cultural and Labor History; Animal Studies; Food Studies; Comparative Literature; History of Empire Bio: Daniel Bender is the Canada Research Chair in Cultural History and Analysis and an associate professor of history. He is the author or editor of three books: Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Global an Historical Perspective (edited, 2003), Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (2004), and American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry (2009). His article have appeared in International Labor and Working-Class History, Radical History Review, Journal of Women's History, American Studies, and Journal of Social History. He is currently working on a book length and digital project on the histories of zoos and the American empire, entitled "Animal Empire: Zoos and the American Exotic." He is the recipient of the UTSC Principal's Research Award (2009). At UTSC, he teaches classes in American, food, and animal history and in the Intersections, Exchanges, and Encounters program.
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Christine Berkowitz
Christine Berkowitz
Lecturer History

Areas of Research: North American Labour and Working-Class History Bio: Christine Berkowitz, returned to academia part-time in 1998, after twenty years in the public sector as a senior manager of non-profit organizations involved in the planning, development and coordination of community services. Dr. Berkowitz received her PhD in History from the University of Toronto in September of 2010. Her dissertation project, entitled "Railroad Crossings: Railway Workers and the Transnational World of North America, 1877-1910," explores labour migration, working-class culture and borderland identities in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, thinking comparatively about Mexican-US and Canadian-US borderlands. Crossing between three nations and questioning categories such as race, citizenship and nation, Christine studies workers relationally – to their families, fellows and communities, and to larger processes capitalist expansion and nation-building. Currently, Dr. Berkowitz holds a full-time Lecturer's appointment at the University of Toronto Scarborough with a teaching focus on Critical Writing and Research for Historians and a variety of courses in American History.
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Katherine Blouin
Katherine Blouin
Assistant Professor Classics / History

Bio: Katherine Blouin has a Ph.D. in Roman History (Laval and Nice). Her work centers on Roman Egypt, and more specifically on issues dealing with multiculturalism, cultural identities and ancient environments. Her current professional work seeks to establish how the fluvial and alimentary risk management strategies and policies adopted during the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Nile Delta and in areas upstream have played a role in the major hydrographic reconfiguration of the Nile Delta that occurred between the Roman conquest and the Arab period. These innovative works aims at contributing to a better understanding of the too little known yet extremely significant region that is the Nile delta.

William R. Bowen
William R. Bowen
Associate Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Music

Areas of Research: Harmonic science from Antiquity to the seventeenth century; Ficino Digital Humanities; Renaissance bibliography; Editions of Renaissance texts Bio: William Bowen is Chair of the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His research interests lie in speculative musical thought from Antiquity to the end of the Renaissance, with particular focus on harmonic science and its implications for Renaissance culture. He is also interested in music for the theatre, especially opera, and has performed with the Canadian Opera Company. His most recent book-length publications include Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (2008) edited by W. Bowen and R. G. Siemens, and Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology, trans. by M. J. B. Allen, Latin text ed. by J. Hankins with W. Bowen (2001-06). He has published articles and reviews in Early Modern Literary Studies, Journal of Music Theory, Italica, Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, and the Sixteenth Century Journal. His commitment to digital humanities and online publication is evidenced by his work as the founding director of Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance and as the editor of FICINO. His current projects include writing a monograph on the musical thought of Marsilio Ficino, working on The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place for UofT Press (with Joseph Black and Germaine Warkentin), and preparing a critical edition of Pontus de Tyard's Solitaire Second for Editions Honore Champion (with John McClelland).
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Yael Brotman
Yael Brotman
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Studio

Bio: Yael Brotman teaches in the Visual and Performing Arts program at UTSC. She is also a practicing artist. Her practice includes drawing, painting and printmaking. Brotman has exhibited in public and commercial galleries as well as at artist-run centres across Canada, from St. John's NF to Dawson City YK. Her work has been reviewed in newspapers (the Globe and Mail, the National Post), magazines (Visual Arts News, Now magazine), and blogs (the torontoist.com site - an image of her print installation was featured May 2009, and viewoncanadianart.com - which highlighted a shot of her drawing installation in the 'Art School: Dismissed' exhibition, May 2010). In 2009, she exhibited in museums and galleries in Jingdezhen, Sanbao and Taiyuan, China, where she also lectured at the Second Sanbao Printmaking Biennale and Symposium. Brotman has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Upcoming activities include a solo print-based exhibition at Loop Gallery, Toronto, in conjunction with the print symposium 'Printopolis' taking place October 2010; a four-person exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery, 2011; and group exhibitions in New York, Minneapolis, Whitehorse, and London ON, 2010/11.

Lora Carney
Lora Carney
Associate Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Art History

Areas of Research: Art History; Modern Art; Canadian Art; Contemporary Public Art; Art and Politics; Art and Society; Political Context; Social Context Bio: Lora Senechal Carney is an art historian whose research in Canadian modern art has involved many years of reading letters, journals, artists' statements, newspaper and magazine articles written by Canadian artists and critics from 1930 to 1960. In her work she considers how these writings explore and illuminate the relation of art and ideas about art to their rapidly changing historical, social, and political backgrounds. This is the subject of her chapter in Visual Art in Canada (Oxford University Press 2010) and of a book manuscript. Her other major field of research is contemporary North American public art, and collaborative art public art projects in particular. She co-edited "Landscape, Cultural Spaces, Ecology," a special issue of the art history journal RACAR (2010), and her article in that issue is a study of a collaborative reclamation project in Pennsylvania. She teaches VPA and VPH courses in modern and contemporary art.
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Li Chen
Li Chen
Assistant Professor History

Bio: Professor Li Chen received his J.D. from University of Illinois (magna cum laude) and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Global Asia Studies and of History at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests include late Imperial and modern China (15th through 20th centuries), Chinese law and society, Sino-Western relations, law and empire, history of science and biopower in jurisprudence, politics of translation, cultural encounters, international law, global history, and postcolonial studies. He has been invited to present his research at various institutions including Duke, Columbia, Wisconsin, SUNY at Buffalo, and the College de France. His most recent publications are Law, Empire, and Historiography of Modern Sino-Western Relations: A Case Study of the Lady Hughes Controversy in 1784, Law & History Review 27, no. 1 (2009), 1-53, and Universalism and Equal Sovereignty as Contested Myths of International Law in the Sino-Western Encounter, Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international 12 (2011), pages TBA. He is one of the authors of a multinational team-project, Official Handbooks and Anthologies of Imperial China: A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography, led by Professor Pierre-Etienne Will of the College de France (forthcoming). He is also revising a book manuscript entitled Sons of Different Gods: Law, Sovereignty, and Sensibility of Empire in the Sino-Western Encounter.
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Isolde Dyson
Isolde Dyson
Lecturer Languages - Spanish
Jeri English
Jeri English
Lecturer French

Areas of Research: 20th-century and Contemporary French Literature; French and Francophone Women Writers; Feminist Literary, Cultural and Film Theory; Autobiography and Autobiography Theory; Simone de Beauvoir Bio: Jeri English is a Lecturer in French and Women's and Gender Studies in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She teaches French language and literature courses, and courses on women's life-writing and cinema. Her research areas include feminist literary, film and cultural theory; twentieth- and twenty-first-century French women writers; autobiography; and the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. She has presented papers and published articles on Rachilde, Annie Ernaux, Violette Leduc, Marguerite Duras, Marie Darieussecq and Beauvoir. Her current research project examines reflections of Beauvoir's theories of self-other relations in contemporary French women's autobiographical writings.
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Barry Freeman
Barry Freeman
Assistant Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Drama

Areas of Research: Canadian Theatre; Ethics and Interculturalism; Drama-in-Education CV

T. Anne Frost
T. Anne Frost
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Arts Management

Areas of Research: Experiential Learning; Civic Engagement As It Relates To Student Achievement Bio: T. Anne Frost began work in the arts at Keyano Theatre, Fort McMurray, Alberta; moving to Toronto in the 1980s and working for the Toronto Theatre Alliance's Dora Mavor Moore Awards and Jeunesses musicales/Youth and Music Canada. After her MA in Arts Policy and Management from the City University, London, Anne worked in management roles at Harbourfront's Festival of Authors; Theatre Direct Canada; and Mixed Company Theatre. In 2002 Anne moved to Owen Sound to develop revenue streams at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery with Stuart Reid, Curator/Director. After an illness in 2006 she was retained by the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre, again for revenue development. Anne taught in Humber College's post-graduate Arts Administration – Cultural Management program from 2000 until 2009, and since 2003 taught undergraduates in the Arts Management program at University of Toronto, Scarborough. Anne co-ordinated the Humber program in 2008-9, and is Interim Program Supervisor for the U of T S program, 2010-11. Consulting clients include:

  • The City of Owen Sound
  • Bruce Grey Festival Network
  • Kegedonce Press
  • The Living Arts Centre
  • Native Women in the Arts
  • Autumn Leaf Performance
  • Artword Theatre
  • The Ontario Museum Association
  • Sheatre Educational Alternative Theatre
  • Standing Stone Consulting
  • The Georgian Theatre Festival
  • Shadowland Theatre
  • The Emancipation Day Festival
  • The Theatre for Young Audiences Association of Ontario
  • The Ontario Association of Art Galleries
  • Red Sky Performance
  • SweetWater Music Festival
  • First Stage
  • Alyssum Enterprises
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Michael Gervers
Michael Gervers
Professor History / Art History
Yi (Evie) Gu
Yi (Evie) Gu
Assistant Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Art History

Areas of Research: Modern Chinese Art; Chinese Photography History; Cultural Production in Contemporary China Bio: Yi GU specializes in modern Chinese art and cultural history. Her research interest includes cultural translation, knowledge formation, replication and display techniques, the competing claims of media to truth, and cultural production under socialist and post-socialist condition. Currently she is revising her book manuscript, "Looking beyond Visuality: Sketching, Landscape, and the Politics of Modern Chinese Art" and developing a new project, "AssassiNation: Photography, Political Violence, and the 1911 Revolution".
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Connie Guberman
Connie Guberman
Senior Lecturer Women's and Gender Studies
Atiqa Hachimi
Atiqa Hachimi
Assistant Professor Linguistics

Areas of Research: Arabic Sociolinguistics and Dialectology; Multilingualism in North Africa, Language and Gender, Language and Ethnicity, Language Attitudes and Ideologies, Gender and the French Language in North Africa, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Ethnography. Bio: Atiqa Hachimi is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Women's and Gender Studies in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She teaches courses on sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and ethnicity, language and power, and qualitative sociolinguistic methodologies. Her primary research deals with the intersections of language, society and identity in contemporary North Africa, with particular attention to Morocco. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Becoming Casablancan: Language, Gender and Ethnicity in Urban Morocco". Her recent publications focus on sociolinguistic contact and change in Moroccan cities and on the impact of migration on the evolution of the spoken Arabic in Casablanca. She is also interested in Arabic as a minority language in diaspora.
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Rick Halpern
Rick Halpern
Professor History / Dean and Vice-Principal (Academic)

Bio:

Dr. Rick Halpern began his term as the University of Toronto Scarborough's (UTSC) Dean and Vice-Principal (Academic) on July 1, 2009.  He is the chief academic officer for the campus.

Professor Halpern earned his BA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and his MA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Upon completion of his doctorate in 1989, he joined the Department of History, University College London as a Lecturer and was later promoted to Reader.  He joined the University of Toronto in 2001 as the first Bissell-Heyd Professor of American Studies in the Department of History.  Following terms as Associate Director and then Acting Director, Professor Halpern served as Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk Centre for International Studies from 2004 to 2006.  He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, and from 2006 to 2009 served as Principal of New College.

Professor Halpern is a specialist in modern U.S. history and has written extensively on race and labour in a number of national and transnational contexts.  His work is situated between the social sciences and humanities, with reach into the sciences, affording him an understanding of UTSC's multidisciplinary goals.  Much of his scholarly work has been collaborative, involving work with scholars from other disciplines and international teams of researchers.

Professor Halpern is currently at work on a comparative study of migrant and racialized labour in the sugar industries of Louisiana and Natal, South Africa.  His recent publications include Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954 (1997); Racializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA, and Africa (2000); The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002); and Slavery and Emancipation (2002).  He has published articles in a number of journals including the Journal of American History, Social History, Labor History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.  He supervises students working on a range of topics in African American history, US social history, and transnational labour and working class history.

 

Elizabeth Harney
Elizabeth Harney
Associate Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Art History

Bio: Elizabeth Harney is associate professor of Art History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995 (Duke 2004) which won the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the African Studies Association (2007). She is also editor of Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora (Philip Wilson/Smithsonian Institution: 2003) and co-editor of Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (5 Continents Press, 2007). She has published in Art Journal, African Arts, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Oxford Art Journal. Harney serves as Exhibitions Reviews Editor at African Arts and Consulting Editor at NKA. She was the first curator of contemporary arts at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian (1999-2003). Her current research focuses upon contemporary cosmopolitanism, comparative modernisms and the politics of exhibiting.
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Rena Helms-Park
Rena Helms-Park
Associate Professor Linguistics

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Sherri Helwig
Sherri Helwig
Senior Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Arts Management / Humanities Co-op

Areas of Research: Arts Management; Discipline-Specific Pedagogy (Including Experiential Education); Comparative Cultural Policy; Legal Issues; Leadership; Arts Education Bio: Sherri Helwig is the Associate Chair responsible for experiential education, and Program Supervisor of the Arts Management Specialist programs at the University of Toronto Scarborough (for which she develops curriculum for and teaches practice and policy-related courses).  She has previously taught for American University, York University, Humber College, and the Harris Institute for the Arts, and has lectured extensively across Canada and within the United States, Finland, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands on subjects ranging from cultural entrepreneurship and the evolving field of Arts Management, to comparative copyright policies, to the impact and use of digital technologies to support, preserve and share creative production.

She is President of the Canadian Association of Arts Administration Educators (CAAAE), a board member of the international Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE), and a Founding Member of Arts Consultants Canada / Consultants canadiens en arts (ACCA), and was an invited Scholar-in-Residence at American University in Washington D.C. and the first-ever Senior Research Fellow with the Canadian Conference for the Arts during her 2010-2011 sabbatical from the University of Toronto.

Sherri also continues her work as an independent arts consultant with her own practice (S.L. Helwig & Associates), and is proud to have a client list that includes such organizations as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Professional Writers Association of Canada, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Canadian Museums Association, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sherri's current research interests include experiential education in the arts, the implications of pedagogy on practice and the evolution of the Arts Management discipline, and the effects of cultural policies, strategies and legislation on arts labour and employment issues.


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Marla Hlady
Marla Hlady
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Studio
David Hlynsky
David Hlynsky
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Studio

Areas of Research: Photographic Art; New Media; Documentary Photography; Theatrical Collaboration; Nature and Culture; Communist Store Windows CV

Franca Iacovetta
Franca Iacovetta
Professor History
Alexander Irving
Alexander Irving
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Studio

Bio: Alexander Irving was born in 1962 in Ottawa, Ontario. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1987, Graduate Diploma in Education from McGill University in 1992, and his Masters of fine Art from York University in 2000. He has been exhibiting his work since 1986 and has received awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and The Canada Council. Irving has taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design and, at present, holds the post of Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus.

Yoonjung Kang
Yoonjung Kang
Assistant Professor Linguistics

Areas of Research: Phonology; Phonetics; Language Contact; Korean Bio: Yoonjung Kang (Ph.D., MIT) is an assistant professor in linguistics in the Department of Humanities and holds a graduate appointment in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. Her area of specialization is phonology and its interface with phonetics and morphology, with a special focus on Korean. Current research projects include 1) synchronic and diachronic variation in the sound patterns of English and Japanese loanwords in Korean; 2) dialectal variation in nominal and verbal inflections in Korean; 3) acoustic and articulatory studies on Korean consonants; 4) heritage Korean in GTA; 5) a general theory of loanword phonology and its implication for phonetics-phonology interface
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Russell Kazal
Russell Kazal
Associate Professor History

Bio: Russell Kazal's research and teaching interests are in the social and (broadly defined) political history of the United States since 1877, with a focus on immigration, ethnicity and race, urban America, and ideologies of pluralism and nationalism. His book, Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity (2004), examines how Americans of German background -- arguably the United States' largest ethnic group -- backed away from that ethnic identity in the early twentieth century and redefined themselves in ways informed by race, class, religion, and American nationalism. Other publications include "Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American Ethnic History" (American Historical Review, 1995), and, "The Interwar Origins of the White Ethnic: Race, Residence, and German Philadelphia, 1917-1939" (Journal of American Ethnic History, 2004), which won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Carlton C. Qualey Award. His current research project, "The Regional and Immigrant Roots of American Multiculturalism," examines the emergence of popular notions of ethnic pluralism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Will Kwan
Will Kwan
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Studio

Areas of Research: Contemporary Art; Interculturalism; Critical Theory; Art Activism; Asian Art; Globalization; Capitalism; Art and War Bio: Will Kwanʼs artistic practice takes a critical view of the visual and material culture of globalization and examines the sociopolitical and cultural consequences of how the global is represented. He documents the iconography, vocabulary, and belief systems that shape our concept of a synchronized, impartial, and frictionless world economy, but also the omissions and contradictions that haunt our ʻglobal pictures.ʼ His projects also research globalization as a history of intercultural encounter in the areas of politics, economy, warfare, and urbanism. Born in 1978 in Hong Kong, Will received his MFA from Columbia University in 2004 and from 2004-2006 was a research fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His work has been exhibited at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, the 2007 Montreal Biennale, the 2003 Venice Biennale, the Tate Modern, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Art in General in New York, the Duolun Museum of Modern Art and Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, the Irish Museun of Modern Art in Dublin, CAC in Vilnius, the Polish National Museum in Poznan, Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and The Power Plant in Toronto, and The Western Front in Vancouver.
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Trisha Lamie
Trisha Lamie
Senior Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Drama

Bio: Trisha Lamie (Hon. BA, Dalhousie University, Halifax. MFA, York University, Toronto) has worked extensively as a professional actor, director, dramaturge, and writer in theatres across the country, including Neptune Theatre (Halifax), Mulgrave Road Theatre Co-op (Nova Scotia), Theatre New Brunswick, the National Arts Centre(Ottawa), Theatre Passe Murraille (Toronto), Buddies in Bad Times (Toronto), and the Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg). Trisha has collaborated with nationally and internationally acclaimed artists throughout her career. She has enjoyed teaching Theatre and Performance at several universities, including Acadia University (Nova Scotia), Cape Breton University, Dalhousie University, University of Guelph, OCAD (Toronto), University of Toronto St George Campus and the University of Regina. Trisha's current research concentrates on contemporary performance. Areas of specialized interest include site-specific, devised theatre and performance art. Her research and work has been published in the Canadian Theatre Review and She Speaks (ed. Judith Thompson). Since joining the faculty at UTSC, Trisha has taught and developed courses in Viewpoints, Live Art, Acting, Collaborative Creation and innovative approaches to theatre and performance reflective and responsive to the rich and diverse UTSC community.

Trisha Lamie
Paul Lawrie
Ontario Post-Doctoral Fellow History

Areas of Research: Modern U.S. and African American history; Race and Labour in American Empire; Cultures of American Capitalism; Disability History Bio: Paul Lawrie is an Ontario Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Humanities (History). Dr. Lawrie received his Ph.D in History from the University of Toronto in April 2011. His dissertation "‘To Make the Negro Anew:’ The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination 1896-1928", explored how early twentieth century social scientists, statisticians and medical professionals debated African Americans role in the nation’s industrial past, present and future. Merging evolutionary science with scientific management, this emerging class of self described ‘race experts’ worked to devise new taxonomies of racial labor fitness and redefine the nation’s labour economy. In addition to revising his thesis for publication, Dr. Lawrie recently completed a chapter,"‘Salvaging the Negro’: Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Veterans 1917-1924", for the forthcoming Disability History Anthology. He is currently working on a second article "‘The Constitution of the Color Line’: Frederick Hoffman and the Statistics of Race and Empire 1892-1928" for the Journal of Social History. Dr. Lawrie is a recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society, Rockefeller Archive Centre and the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. At UTSC, he teaches courses in American history, and is co-founder of the working group ‘Race and Ethnic Identities in Transnational Histories’ (REIT).
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Sherry Lee
Sherry Lee
Assistant Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Music

Areas of Research: Musicology; Modernism; Opera; Aesthetics; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Electroacoustics; Canadian studies Bio: Sherry Lee is Assistant Professor of Music History and Culture and Music Program Supervisor at UTSC. Her research and teaching interests are focused in the 19th and 20th centuries and include music and culture in fin-de-siècle Vienna, music-text relationships (especially in opera), electroacoustic and spectral composition, and new music in Canada. She has specialized in the music of Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Schreker, Zemlinsky, and Britten, and the musical thought of Theodor W. Adorno. Her research is informed by literary and critical theory, gender studies, philosophy and aesthetics. She is presently completing a book on Adorno and opera.
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Ann MacDonald
Ann MacDonald
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Art History

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Tanya Mars
Tanya Mars
Senior Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Studio

Areas of Research: Performance Art; Feminist Art; Video Art Bio: Tanya Mars is a feminist performance and video artist who has been involved in the Canadian art scene since 1973. She was a founding member and director of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale) in Montreal (the first women's art gallery in Canada), editor of Parallelogramme magazine for 13 years, and very active in ANNPAC (the Association of National Non-Profit Artist-run Centres) for 15 years. She has also been an active member of other arts organizations since the early 70's. Her work is often characterized as visually rich layers of spectacular, satirical feminist imagery. She has performed widely across Canada, as well as internationally in Chile, Mexico City, Sweden, Ireland, France, Poland, China and Finland. Her most recent major work, a 14-hour durational performance entitled "6 Images in Search of an Artist: Remix" was influenced by the French tapestries La tenture de la dame à la licorne, Christine de Pizan's 15th century novel The City of Ladies and the music of George Crumb and was performed at The Theatre Centre in Toronto as part of the Free Fall Festival in collaboration with Harbourfront's World Stage. She is co-editor with Johanna Householder of OCAD of Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women (2004) published by YYZ books and they are currently working on a second volume which is being supported by FADO. She is a member of the 7a*11d Collective that produces a bi-annual International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto. She currently teaches performance art and video at the University of Toronto Scarborough and is part of the graduate faculty of the Master of Visual Studies Program at the University of Toronto. In 2004 Mars was named artist of the year for the Untitled Arts Awards in Toronto. She is the recipient of a 2008 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts and was recently an International Artist in Residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In addition a book on her work published by FADO and edited by Paul Couillard, Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars , was launched in May of 2008.

John Mayo
John Mayo
Associate Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Music / Arts and Culture
Karen McCrindle
Karen McCrindle
Senior Lecturer French
Kenneth McLeod
Kenneth McLeod
Assistant Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Music

Areas of Research: Music History; Popular Music; Cultural Theory; Gender; Identity Politics; Sports; Opera Bio: Ken McLeod taught at M.I.T.'s School of Music and Theatre Arts and Belmont University (Nashville, TN) before his appointment to the University of Toronto in 2007. He has published on identity politics in popular music, popular music appropriations of art music, and the intersections between science fiction and rock music. His research has also addressed gendered and racial narratives of national identity in 18th-century English theatre music, including representations of Amazons in the music of Handel and Purcell.

Recent publications include articles in Popular Music, Seventeenth Century Music, American Music, Popular Culture, College Music Symposium, Restoration, and Popular Music and Society as well as entries in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. He has delivered papers at numerous national and international conferences. His book We Are The Champions: The Politics of Popular Music and Sports (Ashgate, 2011) examines the role of sports and popular music in constructing racial, gender, ethnic, socio-economic and national identities. He is also researching issues surrounding technology and identity politics in Japanese popular music.

Ken McLeod has received grants and fellowships from the Handel Society, the Japan Foundation and his research is currently supported by a standard research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC). His favorite colour is blue.

Elizabeth (Libbie) Mills
Elizabeth (Libbie) Mills
Lecturer Languages - Sanskrit

Areas of Research: Global Asia Studies; Classical South Asia; Sanskrit; Vedic and Pali; Architecture; Tantra; Ayurveda; Bio: Libbie Mills teaches for Global Asia Studies, her expertise centering on Classical South Asia. Using oral and written materials translated from area languages into English, covering every field, from drama to law, she presents the Classical world in the words of the people who lived it. She also steps away from verbiage, using material objects and music to convey the experience of the Classical world. Her principal research interest is Classical South Asian architecture, working with early Saiva (for followers of Siva) North Indian Tantric pratistha ('consecration') manuals dating from approximately the 7th century. These manuals present the procedures for the construction of domestic and religious buildings, from selection and ritual preparation of the site, through details of form and proportion, to consecration of the finished construction. By connecting these instructions to datable building remains from the period, she has developed tools for dating texts that cover similar ground. Other research interests include epigraphy and the history of medicine. She is currently working on three major compendia of Ayurvedic medical practice: the Astangahrdayam, 'The Heart of Medicine', of Vagbhata; the Carakasamhita, 'Caraka's compendium'; and the Susrutasamhita, 'Susruta's compendium'.
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Sylvia Mittler
Sylvia Mittler
Associate Professor French

Areas of Research: Cultural Studies; Postcolonialism; Nationalism; Memory; Humour studies. Bio: Prof. Sylvia Mittler is an Associate Professor of French who teaches culturally-oriented courses on folktale and myth as well as reception of cultural identities in la Francophonie, practical language courses including practical translation and interpretation, and French literature courses devoted to French travel literature and children's literature in French as well as humour in contemporary French fiction. Her areas of research include France and Greece with specific bearing on popular culture, history and memory, discourses of alterity and ethnicity and the use of humour and satire. Her published work ranges in subject from the carnival songs of renaissance Florence (she once also taught Italian at UTSC) to folk traditions in the work of "rustique" author Henri Pourrat to Greek humorist Nikos Tsiforos' popular and "anti-colonial" take on history, ancient Greek mythology, language, and cultural identity in modern Greece.
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Chandan Narayan
Chandan Narayan
Assistant Professor Linguistics

Areas of Research: Phonetics; language Acquisition; Speech Perception Bio: Chandan Narayan (A.B., M.A., UC Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Michigan) Chandan Narayan's research focuses broadly on the intersection between speech perception and phonology. In particular his work addresses how infant directed speech and speech perception patterns in infants reflect acoustic-perceptual pressures on historical phonology. His teaching interests include Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Perception, First Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, and General Linguistics.
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Juvénal Ndayiragije
Juvénal Ndayiragije
Associate Professor French / African Studies

Areas of Research: Theoretical Linguistics; Syntax; African Linguistics CV

William Nelson
William Nelson
Assistant Professor History

Areas of Research: Europe; France; Intellectual History; Race; Colonialism Bio: William Nelson specializes in European history from the eighteenth century to the present day, with a special focus on the intellectual history of France in the eighteenth century. He is also interested in the relationship between France and its colonies, particularly those in the Atlantic world. He received a B.A. in History with Honors from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an interdisciplinary Masters degree in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Before coming to the University of Toronto, Professor Nelson was a Research Fellow at The Institute for Historical Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Associate Director of Studies at the Centre for History and Economics at The University of Cambridge (where he is presently a Research Associate).

Jin-kyung Park
Jin-kyung Park
Assistant Professor Global Asia Studies / Women's and Gender Studies

Areas of Research: The History; Cultural Studies; and Feminist Studies of (Post)colonialism; Science; Biomedicine; Technology and the Body in Modern Korea and East Asia Bio: Jin-kyung Park is an assistant professor in Global Asia Studies and Women's Studies in the Department of Humanities. She received her B.A. at Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea, and her Ph.D. at the Institute of Communications Research (with a Graduate Minor in Gender and Women's Studies) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her primary work is in the history, cultural studies, and feminist studies of (post)colonialism, science, biomedicine, technology, and the body in modern Korea. Her research probes the genealogy as well as developments of modern biosciences and reproductive technologies in relation to the construction of gender and bodies in twentieth-century Korea. Her current book project, entitled Corporeal Colonialism: Meanings of Women's Health and Disease in Colonial Korea, is on the cultural history of puinbyŏng (women's disease) in Korea under Japanese rule (1910-1945). She offers courses in areas of gender, science, and culture across Asian societies. These courses include "Gendering Global Asia," "Gender and Social Institutions in Asia," "Gender in East Asian Science and Technology," and "The Japanese Empire: A Short History."
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Alejandro Paz
Alejandro Paz
Assistant Professor Anthropology / Intersections, Exchanges, Encounters

Bio: Alejandro Paz is a linguistic anthropologist broadly interested in language and ethnicity in transnational and diasporic contexts, the role of media in publicity and publics, the Middle East, as well as the linguistic issues of pragmatics, interaction, and textuality. He received his PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics (with distinction) from the University of Chicago in 2010, and he is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough, with a graduate appointment in Linguistics as well. His first research project focuses on the emergence of ethnolinguistic identity among (non-Jewish) Latino labour migrants and their children in Israel, including the role of children in media campaigns to gain citizenship. His next research project will explore practices of translation, commensuration and cultural mediation with Israeli online news portals in English. Paz is the winner of several international fellowships and awards, including, most recently, the 2008 Sapir Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Society of Linguistic Anthropology for his research paper, "The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor: Gossip, Evidentiality and Authority in the Perspective of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel," which appeared in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology in 2009.

David Perley
David Perley
Assistant Professor Religion

Areas of Research: Method and Theory in the Study and Teaching of Religions; History of American Religions; Religion and Language Bio: B.A. (Carleton), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto).Publications: "Philosophy," The Encyclopedia of Religion in America (2010); "Lovejoy, A. O." and "Panpsychism," American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (2008); "Explosive Metaphors and Vague Detonations: Seigfried's Contribution to Philosophy and Beyond" William James Studies (2006); "Vagueness: An Additional Nuance in the Interpretation of Ibn 'Arabi's Mystical Language" American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (2005); “Metaphors as Tools for Introductory Courses on the History of Religion” (in progress).
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Michael Petit
Michael Petit
Lecturer Media Studies / New Media Studies

Bio: Michael Petit teaches courses in new media, media theory, and academic writing in the humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He has an MA in creative writing and a PhD in British literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He completed his dissertation, The Queer Rise of the Novel: New Readings in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel, From Defoe to Austen, in 1997. His research interests include the intersections of popular culture and information technologies, new media, writing pedagogy, and academic writing across the curriculum. He is the author of a memoir of the Middle East, Peacekeepers at War (Faber and Faber, 1986), and co-editor of Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire (Routledge, 2006), a collection of essays that examines the cultural, social and political implications of the online auction site. His forthcoming book, Google This: The Culture of Search (Routledge), is scheduled for publication in 2011.

Alexander Rapoport
Alexander Rapoport
Senior Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Music

Areas of Research: Core theory; Composition; Composition in traditional styles; Counterpoint Bio: Alexander Rapoport holds diplomas in composition and traditional composition from the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (currently known as the Musik-Univbersität) in Vienna and Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees from the University of Toronto. His teachers and mentors include Augustin Kubizek, Karl Heinz Füssl, Oskar Morawetz, Lothar Klein and Derek Holman. He has received commissions for works in such diverse media as orchestral, choral and chamber music, film scores, incidental music for live theatre and musical comedy. His principal compositions include works for Norine Burgess and The Talisker Players (The Pilgrimage of Henry Pyne, 2009), The Canadian Children's Opera Company (Dragon in the Rocks, 2008), The Windermere Quartet (String Quartet, 2006), Valerie Tryon (Variations on a Theme of Chopin for Piano and Orchestra, 1999) and Judy Loman (Hymn to the Redeemer of the Nations, 1986). At the University of Toronto Rapoport holds a cross-appointment, teaching both at the Faculty of Music and in the Division of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. He teaches graduate and undergraduate composition and various music theory courses and specializes in traditional contrapuntal technique.
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Pascal Riendeau
Pascal Riendeau
Associate Professor French
Stephen Rockel
Stephen Rockel
Associate Professor History / African Studies

Areas of Research: African History; African Studies; Eastern Africa; Central Africa; Southern Africa; Indian Ocean; Tanzania; South Africa; Social History; Labour History; History of Slavery; Urban History; War and Society; Colonial and Postcolonial Conflicts; History and Film Bio: Professor Stephen Rockel is a specialist in African history, particularly in Tanzania, East Africa and South Africa. After completing his PhD at the University of Toronto he taught in the Department of Economic History at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa before returning to Toronto in 1999. He has particular interests in labour history, slavery, urbanization, colonialism, nationalism, and war and society throughout the African continent and beyond. His book, Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa, was awarded the Joel Gregory Prize by the Canadian Association of African Studies for the best book on Africa written by a Canadian and published in 2006 or 2007. His current projects include a history of Tabora – a nineteenth century commercial city in Tanzania, as well as research on Tanzanian national identity, and South African anti-apartheid exiles in Canada. In 2009 he published (with Rick Halpern), Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War and Empire.
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Natalie Rothman
Natalie Rothman
Assistant Professor History

Areas of Research: Historical Anthropology; Early Modern Mediterranean; Postcolonial Theory; Semiotics; Translation Studies Bio: E. Natalie Rothman is an Assistant Professor of History. She specializes in the history of Venice and the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, and is interested more broadly in the history of cultural mediation and in the relationship between translation and empire. Natalie was trained as an historical anthropologist, first at Tel Aviv University (MA in Culture Research, 1999) and then at the University of Michigan (PhD in Anthropology and History, 2006). Her forthcoming book, Trans-Imperial Subjects: Boundary Markers of the Early Modern Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2011), explores how diplomatic interpreters, converts, and commercial brokers mediated and helped define political, linguistic, and religious boundaries between the Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is also the author of several peer-reviewed articles, which have appeared in Mediterranean Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and elsewhere. She continues to examine the intersecting histories of early modern trans-imperial subjects in the Mediterranean in her new project, The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Making of the Levant, which was funded by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant and a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library. She regularly offers courses on the early modern Mediterranean and on the history of Venice and its empire, and advanced seminars on the histories of translators and interpreters, converts and missionaries, and travellers and travel-writers.
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Annette Sanger
Annette Sanger
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Music

Areas of Research: Bali; Indonesia; Music & Society; Religion; Tourism; Gamelan Performance Bio: Annette Sanger is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the performing arts of Bali, Indonesia . Two years' fieldwork in Balinese villages, and several other shorter visits, culminated in her Ph.D. (Queen's Belfast, 1986) as well as many articles on music and dance in the context of social life, tourism, ritual, and the broader cultural milieu. Dr. Sanger was an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and taught Balinese Gamelan at the Queen's University of Belfast. Since coming to Toronto she has continued her teaching, and was also Director of the University Settlement Music & Arts School for ten years. Currently, she teaches a wide range of courses at UTSC and the Faculty of Music (e.g. World Music, Music for the Theatre, Performing Arts of Asia, Music in Islamic Cultures), and directs the University's Balinese gamelan. She also performs as a member of Gamelan Gong Sabrang, a Javanese gamelan collective based at the Indonesian Consulate in Toronto, and Seka Rat Nadi, a Balinese music quartet.
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Jayeeta Sharma
Jayeeta Sharma
Assistant Professor History

Areas of Research: Social and Cultural History; 'New Imperial' History; Anthropology and History; Post-Colonial Studies; Food History; Labour History; South Asian Studies; Race; Gender and Family History; Transnational and Diaspora Studies Bio: Jayeeta Sharma is an Assistant Professor in History and Global Asia Studies at the University of Toronto. After doing a BA, MA, and MPhil in History from the University of Delhi, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to do her PhD at Cambridge University. Subsequently, she taught at universities in India, the United States, and Canada. Her academic interests include migration, labour, gender, food, urban, and post-colonial cultures. Her first book, Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India (Duke University Press and Permanent Black, 2011) examines the intersections of colonial tea capitalism with identity contestations in modern and contemporary India. This work links the study of coolie labour and internal migration in South Asia to that of imperial commodities, cultural nationalism, and post-colonial politics of race, language, and ethnicity. Her new research project studies imperial labour mobilization, Anglo-Indian migrations, and transnational Himalayan imaginings and circulation involving sites as diverse as Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. This project is supported by a Standard Research Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Henry Shiu
Henry Shiu
Assistant Professor Religion

Areas of Research: Mahayana Buddhism; Tathagatagarbha; Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies; Engaged Buddhism; Philosophical Daoism; Cultural and Religious Studies in East Asia; Buddhism in Canada Bio: Henry Shiu teaches in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough, in the disciplines of Religion and Global Asia Studies. His research has focused on the doctrinal and historical studies of Mahayana Buddhism in India, China, and Tibet, particularly on the tathagatagarbha theory. He also does research in the history of Buddhism in Canada and various forms of Socially Engaged Buddhism in the contemporary world. Shiu is the co-editor-in-chief of the Monograph Series in Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, published jointly by Renmin University of China, China Tibetology Publishing House, and the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies Association in North America.
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Charles Smith
Charles Smith
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts / Cultural Pluralism & the Arts

Areas of Research: Cultural Pluralism; Critical Race; Equity Studies Bio: Charles C. Smith is a published poet, playwright and essayist. He won second prize for his play Last Days for the Desperate from Black Theatre Canada. He has edited three collections of poetry, has one published book (Partial Lives) and his poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Poetry Canada Review, the Quille and Quire, Descant, Dandelion, the Amethyst Review, Bywords, Canadian Ethnic Studies and others. He recently received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council's Writers Reserve Grants Program and is currently working on a multidisciplinary performance piece based on his poetry. This piece is being produced by Sparrow in the Room and involves such artists as Kevin Ormsby (dance), Olga Barrios (dance), Liz Pead (stage design), Jeremy Mimnagh (video works), Robin Styba (photography), Roger McTair (film) and Anahita Azrahimi (production and visual arts).

Charles has provided advice to numerous cultural organizations interested in developing and implementing equity and diversity policies and programs, including the Ontario Science Centre, the SONY Centre for Performing Arts, the Toronto Theatre Alliance, the Caribbean Cultural Committee, Community Cultural Impresarios, Etobicoke and Lakeshore Arts. He has also made presentations on pluralism in performing arts to Soulpepper Theatre as well as Creative Trust and National Historical Sites Alliance of Ontario

In addition to his work in the arts, Charles is currently a Lecturer in cultural theory and cultural pluralism in the arts, at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is a member to the Canadian Court Challenges Program Equality Rights Panel and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He has also recently served as the Equity Advisor to the Canadian Bar Association. His book on racial profiling Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Law Enforcement and Racial Profiling in Canada was released in October, 2007 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

He has authored several papers for the Canadian Bar Association: Ten Years Into the Future: Where Are We Now After Touchstones for Equality?; Concerns on Increasing Tuition Fees at the University of Toronto; Response to the Provost Study of Accessibility and Career Choice in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law; and Comments on Methodologies To Study Accessibility to Law Schools. The latter piece has now been published with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Missing Pieces V (2004). He also guided the CBA in its production of Take Action on Equity and Diversity, a resource guide and toolkit for law firms which is accompanied by an educational DVD on preventing harassment and discrimination

He recently presented a paper for the Chief Justice of Ontario's Fourth Colloquium on Professionalism entitled Who is Afraid of the Social Constructionists? Or Shedding Light on the Unpardonable Whiteness of the Canadian Legal Profession This paper is soon to be published by the Alberta Law Review and was presented to the Alberta Law Society's 100 Anniversary Conference in 2007..

His paper Tuition Fee Increases and the History of Racial Exclusion in Canadian Legal Education has appeared in the fall, 2004 Canadian Diversity (Vol. 3:3). He has a book with Sumach Press entitled Feminism, Law, Inclusion: Intersectionality in Action edited with Gayle MacDonald and Rachel Osborne. He has contributed a chapter (Racial Profiling Then and Now) to a book on racial profiling compiled and authored by Carol Tator and Frances Henry (Racial Profiling in Canada). He has also contributed a chapter to a book Interrogating Race and Racism edited by Vijay Agnew for U. of T. Press and he was commissioned by the Ontario Hate Crimes Community Working Group to prepare a report for its consideration in 2006. His report is entitled Hate Crime Victimization and Links Between Hate Bias, Violence and Racism. more...

Ron Smyth
Ron Smyth
Associate Professor Linguistics

Areas of Research: Psycholinguistics; Anaphora; Reference; Comprehension; Production Sociophonetics; Gender; Sexuality; Methodology Bio: Ron Smyth received his BA Hon. from Carleton University in 1975, an MSc in Psycholinguistics from the University of Alberta in 1977, and a PhD in Psycholinguistics from the same university. His psycholinguistic research has included first language acquisition and the adult language comprehension and production of a range of referential categories, including pronouns, agreement, control structures, and VP ellipsis. His sociophonetics research is focused on the relationship between personal/demographic variables (sex, age, sexual orientation, social class) and listeners' ratings of the voices of male and female speakers, as well as the ability of both kinds of variables to account for variation in the phonetic realization of speech sounds.

Paula Sperdakos
Paula Sperdakos
Associate Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Theatre and Performance Studies

Bio: Paula Sperdakos is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches courses in acting and directing history, theory and practice, musical theatre, and Canadian theatre history, and directs student productions, most recently Carol Shields' Departures and Arrivals. She is the Program Supervisor of the VPA-Theatre and Performance Studies program at UTSC. Her area of scholarly interest is Canadian women theatre practitioners, particularly actresses. Her articles and book reviews have been published in Theatre Research in Canada, CTR, Essays in Theatre, Modern Drama, and Queen's Quarterly. She is the author of the Ann Saddlemyer Award-winning Dora Mavor Moore: Pioneer of the Canadian Theatre. Most recently, she was a contributor to Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice (Talonbooks, 2006). Her current project-in-progress is a book entitled A Trail through a Jungle: The Way of the Canadian Actress.

Alan Stanbridge
Alan Stanbridge
Associate Professor Visual & Performing Arts - Arts Management
Victoria Tahmasebi
Victoria Tahmasebi
Assistant Professor Women's and Gender Studies

Bio: Victoria Tahmasebi is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Professor Tahmasebi's area of specialization encompasses feminist and gender theories of ethics and sexuality; women in the Middle-East; gender and Islam; and gender and non-violence. Her scholarship offers a global framework to the study of gender, exploring the interplay of gender, sexuality, ethics, and religiosity. Some of her recent publications include, "Green Women of Iran: The Role of the Women's Movement During and After Iran's Presidential Election of 2009," Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (2010); "Does Levinas Justify or Transcend Liberalism?: Levinas on Human liberation," Philosophy and Social Criticism (2010); and "Levinas, Nietzsche and Benjamin's Divine Violence," in Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics (2006). She holds a BA in Sociology and Women's Studies from the University of Toronto, and an MA and a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University, Canada.
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Malama Tsimenis
Malama Tsimenis
Lecturer French

Areas of Research: Innovative Pedagogy (Experiential Learning, Interactive Assessment Tools, Blended Teaching); 19th Century French Literature; Literary Criticism; Prefatory Discourse Bio: Dr. Malama Tsimenis holds a Ph.D. in 19th century French literature from the University of Montreal. She has taught at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of San Diego. For the past five years, she has been teaching at the University of Toronto where she has been recognized for her commitment to undergraduate teaching through various awards and nominations. Dr. Tsimenis gives seminars and leads workshops on pedagogical issues to both faculty and graduate students, and works closely with teaching assistants both as a mentor and as a coordinator for language courses. Her research interests lay in literary criticism, prefatory discourse, esthetic theory and innovative pedagogy.
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Lynn Tucker
Lynn Tucker
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Music
Curie Virag
Curie Virag
Assistant Professor Global Asia Studies

Areas of Research:Premodern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, philosophy, and aesthetics. Comparative thought.

 

Bio:Curie Virag (B.A., University of California, Berkeley, M.A. and Ph.D.,Harvard University)  teaches in the department of East Asian Studies (St. George) and in the Global Asia Studies program at UTSC. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, tentatively titled ?Self and the Ethics of Feeling in Premodern China,? which explores the history of thinking about emotions in China from the 5th century BC to the 12th century. It examines how some of the most prominent and influential thinkers of their time - statecraft thinkers, moral philosophers, poets, theorists of literature, art and music -  understood and made sense of the emotions, and the role that emotions playedin their larger ethical and(or) political aspirations. This project brings together her interest in emotions with some of her other main preoccupations: self and subjectivity, theories of perception and knowledge, aesthetics, political theory, and comparative thought. A new project examines the shifting conception, evaluation, and practices of memory in literati culture from the Six Dynasties to the Song periods.

Erin Webster
Erin Webster
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Art History

Bio: I have a doctorate in art history and museum studies, and have worked in both areas. After 7 years in curatorial research at the Art Gallery of Ontario, I am very pleased to be working with students at UTSC, teaching a wide variety of courses in art history and curatorial studies, from the introductory first-year class to courses on exhibiting art, art of the early modern period (Renaissance and Baroque Europe), history of Christian art, and curatorial ethics. My specialization is in Northern European Renaissance and Baroque art, particularly the art of the Netherlands and England. I am interested in prints and mapmaking, book illustration, theatre and the rederijkerkammern, and the strong connections between text and image of this era. My work to date has also focussed on incorporating the physical history of artworks, working with art conservators to understand the making of and response to historical works of art.
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Lenard Whiting
Lenard Whiting
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Music

Bio: Lenard Whiting is native to Kenora. Upon completion of high school he continued his musical studies in Toronto at the Royal Conservatory, University of Toronto and with the Canadian Opera Company. Lenard has been performing in Operas, Operettas, Concerts and Oratorios since he was a teenager. He continues to perform in Europe, the United States and throughout Canada. His repertoire covers everything from Monteverdi to Mozart and Bach to Beethovern. This year Lenard sang the title role in the world premiere of Andrew Ager's Frankenstein. This past May Lenard performed in the Canadian premiere staging of Mozart's opera Zaide with Opera Nova Scotia and in June sang the solos in Beethoven's Mass in C and Gounod's St. Cecila Mass in Staines Great Britain. This season Lenard will be singing the role of Golo in Schumann's Opera Genoveva in Toronto, Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly in the Maritimes, the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Oakville and the tenor solos in Handel's Messiah in Albequerque, New Mexico. In addition to Lenard's singing career he is organist and choir director at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough in music teaching musicianship and conducting the Concert Choir. Lenard is also conductor of Ensemble TrypTych Chamber Choir which performs three major concerts each season in addition to community events. Lenard is thrilled to share his passion for music with everyone he meets.
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Kevin Wright
Kevin Wright
Lecturer Visual & Performing Arts - Drama
Helen Wu
Helen Wu
Senior Lecturer Languages - Chinese

Areas of Research: Cultural Studies in Chinese Language and Literature; Sociolinguistics; Sociology of Language; and Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication Bio: Helen Wu, Ph.D., did her graduate studies in Chinese political culture, linguistics, and literary translation and has continued to conduct research in these areas. She has been teaching Chinese language, literature, culture and society, and translation courses. The articles and book chapters that she has published include Chinese linguistics, the sociology of language, fiction, poetry and satirical verse, sayings and proverbs, and translation studies. Her work in progress includes a comparative study of the Chinese and English writing systems and an SSHRC supported project on satirical verse in the Chinese media.
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Helen Wu
Helen Wu
Senior Lecturer Languages - Chinese

Bio: Helen Xiaoyan Wu obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto (U of T), Canada, in East Asian Studies, focusing on Chinese political culture, literary translation, and linguistics. She has been teaching Chinese language, culture, and translation in U of T's Department of East Asian Studies, School of Continuing Studies, and the Department of Humanities at UTSC. She also taught business communication and culture at the Schulich School of Business, York University, during 1991-2008. She has published dozens of articles on Chinese linguistics, Modern and Classical Chinese teaching, poetry, novels, proverbs, translation, the sociology of language through the choice of words, and corruption from the perspective of verses and popular sayings, etc.