Full-Time Faculty

Alena Robin

Department Chair, Associate Professor, Art History

Research Interests / Specializations: Latin American Art; Colonial Mexico (New Spain); Religious Art; Passion of Christ; Collections and exhibitions of art from Latin America in Canada;Early Modern Theories of Art and Artistic Literature in the Hispanic World; Historiography of Viceregal Painting in New Spain.

Tricia Johnson

Undergraduate Chair, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Studio Foundations

Research Interests / Specializations: Printmaking and print media, specifically linocut and intaglio, drawing, fibre and textile-based practices, visual art pedagogy

Christine Sprengler

Professor, Art History

Research Interests / Specializations: cinematic installation art; new media art; relationships between cinema and the visual arts; cultural memory and nostalgia in visual culture; representations of history in contemporary cinema and television (British and American)

Cody Barteet

Associate Professor, Art History

Research Interests / Specializations: Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; architecture and urbanism; Latin American art; Pre-Columbian art; cross-cultural exchange; and gender and feminist studies.

Sarah Bassnett

Professor, Art History

Research Interests / Specializations: histories and theories of photography, especially in relation to issues of power and resistance, social crisis and reform, and movements for social change; late nineteenth and early twentieth-century art and visual culture, with an emphasis on cities and modernity; contemporary art, especially photo-based practices; museum and exhibition histories as they relate to nation building and liberalism.

Sky Glabush (on sabbatical)

Associate Professor, Visual Arts Studio, Painting

Research Interests / Specializations: visual art practice, with a focus on contemporary painting; drawing and image-based practices; interdisciplinary studio; critical theory.

John Hatch

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: 20th-century art, art theory, and architecture, specifically Dada and Neo-Dada; Post-WWII European and American Art; early abstract art (1910-1940); intersections between art and science.

Jessica Karuhanga

Assistant Professor, Studio Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: Performance, performativity, experimental music, Black Diasporic concerns, Black liberation, new media, digital media, lens-based technologies, Disability justice, drawing and movement.

Soheila Kolahdouz Esfahani

Assistant Professor, Studio Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: Installation & site-specific art; sculpture; conceptual art; postcolonial/decolonial art/theory; visual arts in Diaspora, cross cultural exchange; cultural translation; Islamic art & visual culture

Jackson Leween, Two Bears, Ph.D. (Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri)

Associate Professor, Visual Arts and Indigenous Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Studio practice, installation, interactive, performance, video, sound, interdisciplinary practices, indigenous creative and cultural practice, multimedia, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence

Patrick Mahon

Distinguished University Professor, Visual Arts Studio, Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities

Research Interests / Specializations: visual art practice and curating; printmaking and print culture, postcolonial theory and national identity; links between visual practices and writing practices.

Christof Migone

Graduate Chair, Associate Professor, Studio Art

Research Interests / Specializations: sound art; performance and performativity; video; rhythmics and kinetics; curatorial practice; uncreative writing; politics of the quotidian; conceptual strategies; failure tactics, taciturntablism.

Sheri Osden Nault

Assistant Professor, Studio Art

Research Interests / Specializations: Cross-disciplinary studio art practice including: sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, and digital media; anti-colonial and Indigenous art, theory, and pedagogy; Critical queer, disability, feminist, and ecological theory; Indigenous Tattoo Revival

Kirsty Robertson

Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies; Professor, Museum and Curatorial Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: contemporary art; art and activism; surveillance and art; contemporary craft, textiles and fibre arts; wearable technologies; and museum and curatorial studies.

Daniela Sneppova

Associate Professor, Visual Arts/Information and Media Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: contemporary art practice with a focus on media art, film, animation, video and digital imaging; visual culture studies; Czech culture with a focus on the totalitarian regime of 1968-1989 and practices of resistance; performance and gender studies.

Kelly Wood

Associate Professor, Studio Contemporary Art and Photography

Research Interests / Specializations: studio photography; histories and theories of photography; contemporary art and art theory; art and environmentalism; waste economies.