Associate Faculty
Associate Faculty are derived from several departments, faculties and colleges at Western University. Associate Faculty may serve as 2nd readers on MA and/or PhD theses provided they possess SGPS supervisory privileges granted through their home department.
Responsibilities connected to Associate Faculty membership may include teaching graduate courses; participating as thesis examiner; chairing MA thesis examinations.
Neil Brooks
Contact information
Email: nbrooks@huron.uwo.ca
Department
English and Cultural Studies, Huron University College
Research Areas
- Constructions of Race in American Literature
- The contemporary novel
- American Literature and Social Movements
- Literature and borders
Publications
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Claudia Clausius
Contact information
Email: cclausiu@uwo.ca
Department
English, King’s University College
Research Areas
- Intersections of Modern Art and Modern Drama;
- Samuel Beckett;
- Critical Theory
Publications
Steineck, Raji, and Claudia Clausius, Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
“The Temporal Theatres of Sculpture and Drama: Wole Soyinka and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Kronoscope: Journal for the Study of Time. Vol. 7, No. 1, Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 3-32.
“From Italy to Tunisia: Paul Klee’s Mediterranean Journal” in Modernism and Modernity in the Mediterranean World, eds. Pietropaolo, Domenico and Luca Somigli. New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas, 2006, pp. 305-334.
“Twentieth-Century Theatrical Mimesis in Theory and Practice: A Failed Deconstruction,” in De Spiegel van Stendhal. Eds. E. Jongeneel and B. van Heusden. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij, 1999. 182-95.
“Waiting and Deconstruction: Between Order and Chaos in Post-Modern Drama” in Time, Order, Chaos - The Study of Time IX, New Jersey: International Universities Press, 1998. 63-75.
“The Temporal Theatres of Sculpture and Drama: Wole Soyinka and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Kronoscope: Journal for the Study of Time. Vol. 7, No. 1, Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 3-32.
“From Italy to Tunisia: Paul Klee’s Mediterranean Journal” in Modernism and Modernity in the Mediterranean World, eds. Pietropaolo, Domenico and Luca Somigli. New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas, 2006, pp. 305-334.
“Twentieth-Century Theatrical Mimesis in Theory and Practice: A Failed Deconstruction,” in De Spiegel van Stendhal. Eds. E. Jongeneel and B. van Heusden. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij, 1999. 182-95.
“Waiting and Deconstruction: Between Order and Chaos in Post-Modern Drama” in Time, Order, Chaos - The Study of Time IX, New Jersey: International Universities Press, 1998. 63-75.
Janice Forsyth
Contact information
Email: jforsyt3@uwo.ca
Department
Sociology
Research Areas
- Physical Culture & Health at Indian Residential Schools
- Qualitative Research
- Understanding 'Development' Through Sport
- Aboriginal Sport History
- Sociology of Sport
- Community Development through Qualitative Methods
Publications
2017 Olympic Perspectives (ed. with Stephan Wassong and Richard Baka), Routledge
2017 "'The only good thing that happened at school': Colonising narratives of sport in the Indian School Bulletin" (with Michael Heine) British Journal of Canadian Studies 30(2):205-225
2017 "‘Welcome to the Olympic Victims Hotel’: Homelessness and the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games" (with Sophy Chan) Sport in Society
2017"“ A Rink at this School is Almost as Essential as a Classroom”: Hockey and Discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945–1951" (with Braden Te Hiwi) Canadian Journal of History 52(1):80-108
2016 "Negotiating Difference: How Aboriginal Athletes in the Maritimes Brokered their Involvement in Canadian Sport" (with Vanessa Lodge-Gagné and Audrey Giles) The International Journal of the History of Sport 33(16):1943-1962
2016 "The Illusion of Inclusion: Agenda 21 and the Commodification of Indigenous Culture in Olympic Games" PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas 53(Mega-Event Cities)
2016 "Truth, Reconciliation, and the Politics of the Body in Indian Residential School History" (with Evan J. Habkirk) History Matters
2015 "Make the Indian Understand his Place: Politics and the Establishment of the Tom Longboat Awards at Indian Affairs and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada" Sport in History 35(2):241-270
2017 "'The only good thing that happened at school': Colonising narratives of sport in the Indian School Bulletin" (with Michael Heine) British Journal of Canadian Studies 30(2):205-225
2017 "‘Welcome to the Olympic Victims Hotel’: Homelessness and the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games" (with Sophy Chan) Sport in Society
2017
2016 "Negotiating Difference: How Aboriginal Athletes in the Maritimes Brokered their Involvement in Canadian Sport" (with Vanessa Lodge-Gagné and Audrey Giles) The International Journal of the History of Sport 33(16):1943-1962
2016 "The Illusion of Inclusion: Agenda 21 and the Commodification of Indigenous Culture in Olympic Games" PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas 53(Mega-Event Cities)
2016 "Truth, Reconciliation, and the Politics of the Body in Indian Residential School History" (with Evan J. Habkirk) History Matters
2015 "Make the Indian Understand his Place: Politics and the Establishment of the Tom Longboat Awards at Indian Affairs and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada" Sport in History 35(2):241-270
Gyongi (Ginger) Hegedus
Contact information
Email: ghegedus@uwo.ca
Department
Religious Studies, King's University College
Research Areas
- Islamic Philosophy
- Medieval Thought
- Jewish Thought
Publications
“The Double Path: The Two Layers of Thinking and the Twofold Nature of Knowledge in the Work of Saadya Gaon” in Vixens Disturbing Vineyards: Embarrassment and Embracement of Scriptures (Festschrift in Honor of Harry Fox) T. Yoreh, A. Glazer et al., (eds) (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010, 385-410. Revised and expanded publication of “The Double Path: The Two Layers of Thinking and the Twofold Nature of Knowledge in the Work of Saadya Gaon” in Reflecting Diversity: Historical and Thematic Perspectives in the Jewish and Christian Tradition, P. Losonczi and G. Xeravits (eds) Berlin and Vienna: LitVerlag, 2007, 43-61.2017 "'The only good thing that happened at school': Colonising narratives of sport in the Indian School Bulletin" (with Michael Heine) British Journal of Canadian Studies 30(2):205-225
“Where is Paradise? Eschatology in Early Medieval Judaic and Islamic Thought,” in Dionysius XXV, December 2007, Dalhousie University Press, 153-176.
“The Finitude of the World and the End of Human Knowledge: The Reformulation of the Philoponean Proofs in medieval Jewish thought,” in Migrating Texts, W. Sweet (ed.), Ottawa University Press.
The Book of Beliefs and Convictions of Saadya Gaon al-Fayyumi (Kitab al-amanat wa -‘1-I`tiqadat). Translation from Judeo-Arabic into Hungarian (Paris-Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2005), pp 288
“Where is Paradise? Eschatology in Early Medieval Judaic and Islamic Thought,” in Dionysius XXV, December 2007, Dalhousie University Press, 153-176.
“The Finitude of the World and the End of Human Knowledge: The Reformulation of the Philoponean Proofs in medieval Jewish thought,” in Migrating Texts, W. Sweet (ed.), Ottawa University Press.
The Book of Beliefs and Convictions of Saadya Gaon al-Fayyumi (Kitab al-
Susan M. Knabe
Contact information
Email: sknabe@uwo.ca
Department
Women's Studies and Feminist Research
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Research Areas
- Critical Theory and Cultural Studies;
- Sexuality, Gender and Popular Culture;
- Feminist Theory; Queer Theory;
- Representation, Subjectivity and Embodiment, particularly in response to AIDS and the Holocaust;
- AIDS and Cultural Production;
- Sexuality and Citizenship (focus on race, class and ethnicity);
- Medicalization and the Media; Media and Resistance
Publications
"Unbecoming Spaces: AIDS and Urban Apocalypse," Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, 2012
"Suffer the Children: National Crisis, Affective Collectivity and the Sexualized Child." Canadian Review of American Studies 42.1 (2012): 82-104
"Fromdesire to disease: Human papillomavirus (HPV) and the medicalization of nascent female sexuality." Journal of Sex Research, 49.4 (2012): 344-352
"Testimony, Healthism and the Production of Surplus Value: The People vs. Cancer and the Spectacle of Survival." Future of Testimony Conference, 2011
"Suffer the Children: National Crisis, Affective Collectivity and the Sexualized Child." Canadian Review of American Studies 42.1 (2012): 82-104
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"Testimony, Healthism and the Production of Surplus Value: The People vs. Cancer and the Spectacle of Survival." Future of Testimony Conference, 2011
Katherine Lawless
Contact information
Email: klawles@huron.uwo.ca
Department
Centre for Global Studies, Huron University College
Research Areas
- History of gender and history of sexuality, particularly in modern U.S. popular culture
- sexual identity formation
- lesbian studies
- LGBTQ cultures
- women’s history and feminism
Publications
“Trauma, Memory and the Matter of Historical Violence: The Controversial Case of Four Photographs from Auschwitz.” American Imago. (Refereed; 2014)
“Down the Rabbit Hole: Five Theses on the Subject of Retreat in the Time of Global Capital.” PUBLIC: Art/ Culture/ Ideas (2014)
“Unrecyclable Times: The Traumatic Topographies of Global Capitalism in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” The Word Hoard, 1.2, 2013: 94-108. (Invited)
“(Re)Circulating Foreign Bodies: Richard Fung’s Sea in the Blood.” Feminist Media Studies, 12.1, 2012: 119-132. (Refereed)
“Down the Rabbit Hole: Five Theses on the Subject of Retreat in the Time of Global Capital.” PUBLIC: Art/ Culture/ Ideas (2014)
“Unrecyclable Times: The Traumatic Topographies of Global Capitalism in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” The Word Hoard, 1.2, 2013: 94-108. (Invited)
“(Re)Circulating Foreign Bodies: Richard Fung’s Sea in the Blood.” Feminist Media Studies, 12.1, 2012: 119-132. (Refereed)
Christof Migone
Contact information
Email: cmigone@uwo.ca
Department
Visual Arts
Research Areas
- Sound Art
- Performance and Performativity
- Conceptualisms
- Curatorial Practice
- Techniques of Museums
- Failure Aesthetics
Publications
2017 "Door to Door to Door", essay for Urban Encounters, eds. Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, McGill-Queen's Press; 25 pages.
2017 "Hit, Hit Maker, Hit Parade", artist pages for the Performance Art and the Public Sphere anthology, ed. Ana Pais, Lisbon: Orfeu Negro; 7 pages.
2016 "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhe: Silence and Sound in Performance", essay for More Caught in the Act, eds. Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, YYZ Books; 20 pages.
2016 "With: Alexandre St-Onge's Cosmo-Touch", essay for Alexandre St-Ongecatalog , Québec City: Avatar; 20 pages.
2015 "Heard and Misheard Notes" for Volumes, eds. Martin Arnold & Christof Migone, Blackwood Gallery; 15 pages.
2014 “Sans Sourdines”, in Home Sweet Home, à propos de l’inquiétude, Montréal: Dazibao; 18 pages.
2014 "Foursome", Beckett and Musicality, eds. Sara Jane Bailes and Nicholas Till, Ashgate; 17 pages.
2012 Migone, Christof. Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press; 282 pages.
2011 Migone, Christof. The Rise and Fall of the Sounds and Silences from Mars. Toronto: Parasitic Ventures Press; 182 pages.
2017 "Hit, Hit Maker, Hit Parade", artist pages for the Performance Art and the Public Sphere anthology, ed. Ana Pais, Lisbon: Orfeu Negro; 7 pages.
2016 "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhe: Silence and Sound in Performance", essay for More Caught in the Act, eds. Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, YYZ Books; 20 pages.
2016 "With: Alexandre St-Onge's Cosmo-Touch", essay for Alexandre St-Onge
2015 "Heard and Misheard Notes" for Volumes, eds. Martin Arnold & Christof Migone, Blackwood Gallery; 15 pages.
2014 “Sans Sourdines”, in Home Sweet Home, à propos de l’inquiétude, Montréal: Dazibao; 18 pages.
2014 "Foursome", Beckett and Musicality, eds. Sara Jane Bailes and Nicholas Till, Ashgate; 17 pages.
2012 Migone, Christof. Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press; 282 pages.
2011 Migone, Christof. The Rise and Fall of the Sounds and Silences from Mars. Toronto: Parasitic Ventures Press; 182 pages.
Benjamin Muller
Contact information
Email: bmuller@uwo.ca
Department
Political Science at King's University College
Research Areas
- Borders and Borderlands
- Critical Security Studies
- Science and Technology Studies
- Identity
- Biometrics
- Surveillance
- Sovereignty
- Architecture
- Postcolonialism
Publications
Forthcoming, Muller, B. and Mutlu, C., eds., Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Space (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
Abboud, S. and Muller, B., Rethinking Hizballah: Legitimacy, Authority, Violence (Ashgate, 2012).
Muller, B., Security, Risk and the Biometric State: Governing Borders and Bodies (London: Routledge, 2010).
Co-authored with Cooke, T., de Larrinaga, M., Frowd, P., Iossifova, D., Johannes, D., Mutlu, C., Nowek, A., “Ferocious Architecture: Sovereign Spaces/Places by Design,” International Political Sociology, Vol 10, No. 1 (2016): 75-96.
with Samer Abboud, ‘Geopolitics, insecurity and neo-colonial exceptionalism: A critical appraisal of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon,” Security Dialogue, 2013, vol. 44, no. 5-6 (2013): 467-484
with Samer Abboud, ‘Hezbollah and the Syrian Crisis,” Near East Quarterly December 2012: 1-8.
“Biometric Borders,” in Mitchell, K., Jones, R., Fluri, J. L., eds., Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, pp. 69-78.
“The Day the Border Died? The Canadian Border as Checkpoint in an Age of Hemispheric Security & Surveillance,” in Walby, K., Lippert, R., Warren, I., Palmer, D., eds., National Security, Surveillance and Terror: Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 297-318.
“Technology” in R. Shindo and A. Ni Mhurchu, eds., Critical Imaginations in IR (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 229-245.
Abboud, S. and Muller, B., Rethinking Hizballah: Legitimacy, Authority, Violence (Ashgate, 2012).
Muller, B., Security, Risk and the Biometric State: Governing Borders and Bodies (London: Routledge, 2010).
Co-authored with Cooke, T., de Larrinaga, M., Frowd, P., Iossifova, D., Johannes, D., Mutlu, C., Nowek, A., “Ferocious Architecture: Sovereign Spaces/Places by Design,” International Political Sociology, Vol 10, No. 1 (2016): 75-96.
with Samer Abboud, ‘Geopolitics, insecurity and neo-colonial exceptionalism: A critical appraisal of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon,” Security Dialogue, 2013, vol. 44, no. 5-6 (2013): 467-484
with Samer Abboud, ‘Hezbollah and the Syrian Crisis,” Near East Quarterly December 2012: 1-8.
“Biometric Borders,” in Mitchell, K., Jones, R., Fluri, J. L., eds., Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, pp. 69-78.
“The Day the Border Died? The Canadian Border as Checkpoint in an Age of Hemispheric Security & Surveillance,” in Walby, K., Lippert, R., Warren, I., Palmer, D., eds., National Security, Surveillance and Terror: Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 297-318.
“Technology” in R. Shindo and A. Ni Mhurchu, eds., Critical Imaginations in IR (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 229-245.
Tobias Nagl
Contact information
Email: tnagl@uwo.ca
Department
Film Studies
Research Areas
- Film history and theory
- the Frankfurt School
- African American studies
- silent film
- political modernism and the historical avant-garde
- popular music
- experimental cinema
- visual arts
- Holocaust representation
- postcolonial studies and European colonialism
Publications
“Afrolisation (Blueberry Hill Dub)”, in: Daniel Kojo Schrade, Philip Metz (ed.), AfroSat -1 (Berlin: Revolver, 2012)
“March 6, 1920: Chinese Students in Berlin raise charges of racism against Joe May’s Die Herrin der Welt,” in :Rocherster : Camden House, 2012)
“‘So Much Tenderness’: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire” (co-authored with Janelle Blankenship),in: Brigitte Peucker (ed.), A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2012)
“‘Sonst wärenwir den Weg gegangen wie alle anderen ’: Afro-deutsche Komparsen, Zeugenschaft und das Archiv der deutschen Filmgeschichte” [‘Or we would have gone the way of the all the others’: Afro-German bit players, testimony and the archive of German film history] in: Claudia Bruns, Arsal Dardan and Anette Dietrich (ed.), “Welchen der Steine du best”: Filmische Erinnerungen an den Holocaust[‘Whichever Stone You Lift’: Filmic Remembrance of the Holocaust] (Berlin: Bertz+Fischer, 2011)
“Projecting Desire, Rewriting Cinematic Memory: Gender and German Reconstruction in Fraulein,ein Deutsches Melodram ,” in: Roy Grundmann (ed.), A Companion to Michael Haneke, (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2010)
“The Aesthetics of Race in European Film Theory”in: Trifonova Temenuga (ed.), European Film Theory (London: New York: Routledge, 2009)
“Louis Brody and the Black Presence in German Film before 1945. A Biographical Sketch,”in: Patricia Mazon, Reinhild Steingröver (ed.), Not So Plain As Black Or White. Afro-German Culture and History, 1890–2000 (Rochester: Rochester UP, 2005)
Book: Dieunheimliche Maschine: Rasse und Repräsentation im Weimarer Kino[The Uncanny Machine: Race and Representation in Weimar Cinema](Munich: edition text+kritik, 2009) (winner of the Willy Haas Book Prize)
“March 6, 1920: Chinese Students in Berlin raise charges of racism against Joe May’s Die Herrin der Welt,
“‘So Much Tenderness’: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire” (co-authored with Janelle Blankenship),
“‘Sonst wären
“Projecting Desire, Rewriting Cinematic Memory: Gender and German Reconstruction in Fraulein,
“The Aesthetics of Race in European Film Theory”
“Louis Brody and the Black Presence in German Film before 1945. A Biographical Sketch,”
Book: Die
Wendy Pearson
Contact information
Email: wpearson@uwo.ca
Departments
Women's Studies and Feminist Research
Research Areas
- Gender and sexuality studies, including queer theory, feminist theory and critical race theory;
- Cultural studies;
- Indigenous film and media;
- contemporary queer Canadian culture, including Canadian cinema, Canadian popular culture, and Canadian literature;
- science fiction and
sf history
Publications
Pearson, Wendy, Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger, eds. Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction. Liverpool UP, 2008. Issued in paperback, October 2010.
Pearson, Wendy and Susan Knabe. Zero Patience. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.
Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context. Ed. Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.
Pearson, Wendy and Susan Knabe. Zero Patience. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.
Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context. Ed. Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.
Lucas Savino
Contact information
Email: lsavino2@uwo.ca
Department
Centre for Global Studies, Huron University College
Research Areas
- Indigenous Self-Determination
- Decolonization and Decoloniality
- Modern State Formation and Capitalism
Christine Sprengler
Contact information
Email: csprengl@uwo.ca
Department
Visual Arts
Research Areas
- cinematic installation art
- new media art and the relationships between cinema and the visual arts
- Cultural memory and nostalgia in visual culture
- representations of history in contemporary (British and American) cinema and television
Matt Stahl
Research Areas
- Creative/cultural/artistic labour and property
- Labour theory of value and the “new reading of Marx”
- Popular music and the recorded music industries
- Genealogy of the recording contract
- Race, royalties, and intellectual property
- Law as constitutive to modern social practice
- History and prehistory of capitalism
- Debt, austerity, and the media
- Subjectivity, affect, emotion (e.g. the “production of subjectivity”)
- Digitalization and reorganization of music business models
- Social and political theory
Publications
Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work (Duke, 2013)
