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

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 (on sabbatical)

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

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.