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.

Dan Bousfield

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Contact information

Email: dbousfie@uwo.ca

Department

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Research Areas

  •  the intersections of social movements
  •  protest and political economy with an emphasis on psychoanalysis, gender, technology, pedagogy and resistance

Publications

2019: "Settler Colonialism in Vegetal Worlds: Exploring Progress and Resilience at the Margins of the Anthropocene." Settler Colonial Studies: 1-19.

2019: "Crypto‐Coin Hierarchies: Social Contestation in Blockchain Networks." Global Networks: 291-307.

2018: "Racialized Hearts and Minds: Emotional Labor and Affective Leadership in the Teaching/Learning of IR' with Heather L. Johnson, and Jean Michel Montsion.  International Studies Perspectives.

2018: "Faith, Fantasy and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in Europe” in Kapoor, Ilan, ed. Psychoanalysis and the Global. U of Nebraska Press.

2017: “Towards a North American Energy Bloc: The Geopolitical implications of Market Preserving Federalism” in Ovadia, Jesse Salah, and Tim Di Muzio, eds. Energy, capitalism and world order: Toward a New Agenda in International Political Economy. Springer.

2017: "Revisiting Cyber-Diplomacy: Canada–China Relations Online." Globalizations 14.6: 1045-1059.

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Regna Darnell

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Contact information

Email: rdarnell@uwo.ca

Department

Anthropology, Professor Emeritus

Research Areas

  • Kenya, Senegambia;
  • Ecosystem health, Public health;
  • Language and culture;
  • Gender and migration;
  • Indigenous knowledge

Publications

Regna Darnell, History of Method and Theory in Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

Regna Darnell, History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L. A. Hancock and Joshua Smith, eds. Franz Boas as Public Intellectual: Theory, Ethnography Activism. Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition, volume I.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Julia Harrison and Regna Darnell, eds., Historicizing Canadian Anthropology. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.

Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Presidential Portraits: Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

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Ginger Hegedus

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Contact information

Email: ghegedus@uwo.ca

Department

Religious Studies

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. 

“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

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Susan M. Knabe

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Contact information

Email: sknabe@uwo.ca

Department

Associate Professor, Women's Studies and Feminist Research
Associate Professer, Associate Dean UGRD, 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

"From desire 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

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Katherine Lawless

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Contact information

Email: klawles@huron.uwo.ca

Department

Centre for Global Studies, Huron University College

on sabbatical until June 30, 2023

Research Areas

  • Collective and cultural memory 
  • Enclosure, dispossession, and primitive accumulation
  • Aesthetics and politics of preservation
  • History of capitalism and colonialism
  • Relationality
  • Soil cultures
  • Urban Politics and Sustainability
  • Feminist theory
  • Political ecology
  • Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

Publications

“Mapping the Atomic Unconscious: Postcolonial Capital in Nuclear Glow.” Mediations 32, no.1 (Spring): 41-54.  2018

“The Future of Plasticity: An Interview with Catherine Malabou.” Chiasma: A Site for Thought 3 (3): 99-108.  2016

“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)

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Benjamin Muller

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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.

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Wendy Pearson

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Contact information

Email: wpearson@uwo.ca

Departments

Associate Professor; Chair, 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.

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Michael Raine

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Contact information

Email: mraine3@uwo.ca

Departments

English & Film Studies

Research Areas

  • World Cinema, especially Japanese cinema
  • Subtitling as an historical practice and an aesthetic problem
  • Developing "digital humanities" tools for teaching and research in film studies

Publications

In progress: The Cinema of High Economic Growth: New Japanese Cinemas, 1955-1964.

2021 Co-editor (with Marcos Centeno), Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode (MDPI)

2020 "The Japanese Musical" in Alastair Philips and Fujiki Hideaki (Eds.) The Japanese Cinema Book (BFI)

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Lucas Savino

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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

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Christine Sprengler

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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

Publications

Sprengler, C. Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade, (under contract with Oxford University Press, 2023)

Sprengler, C., “Paratextual Encounters of Four Kinds: Blade Runner and Cinematic Memory,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60.2 (formerly Cinema Journal), 2021.

Sprengler, C. “Midcentury Metamodern: Returning Home in the 21st Century Nostalgia Film,” in Matthew Leggatt, ed. Was it Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television, SUNY Press, 2021.

Sprengler, C. “Chamber Made Opera’s Phobia (2003) and Jean Curran’s The Vertigo Project (2018): The Sounds and Sights of Vertigo’s Afterlife in Art,” in Vertigo 60, eds. Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin, John Libbey, 2019.

Sprengler, C. “Cinematic Periodization and Time’s Percolations: Grease, The Fifties, and Now,” in Peter Kramer and Oliver Gruner, eds. Grease, Anthem Press, 2019.

Sprengler, C. “Cinema and the Visual Arts.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012; updated 2019.

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Matt Stahl

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Contact information

Email: mstahl@uwo.ca

Department

Information & Media Studies

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)



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Kate Stanley

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Contact information

Email: kstanle4@uwo.ca

Department

English

Research Areas

  •  19th-21st C American literature
  •  Education Studies and Pedagogy
  •  Environmental Humanities
  •  Aesthetics
  •  Pragmatism

Publications

Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson, Cambridge University Press, June 2018.

“Postsecular Style,” American Literary History, 33.1 (Spring 2021): 191-205 


“Unrarified Air: Alfred Stieglitz and the Modernism of Equivalence,” Modernism/modernity 26.1 (January 2019): 185-212.


“Through Emerson’s Eye: The Practice of Perception in Proust,” American Literary History 28.3 (Fall 2016): 455-483.


“Henry James’s Syntax of Surprise,” Henry James Review 34.1 (Winter 2013): 16-32.


The Pedagogical Potential of the Eco-Epic,” Modernism/modernity Print+ (May 13, 2021) https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/stanley-pedagogical-potential-eco-epic


Responses to Syndicate Symposium on Practices of Surprise, Syndicate (January - February 2021) https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/practices-of-surprise-in-american-literature-after-emerson/


“Getting Acquainted with Wallace Stevens,” Los Angeles Review of Books (April 17 2019) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/getting-acquainted-with-wallace-stevens




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