Current PhD Students

Aaron Ambroso

Aaron Ambroso



Carolyn Bell Farrell

Carolyn Bell Farrell



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian art; cultural memory and identity; art and ritual.
Emily-Anne Cadotte

Emily-Anne Cadotte



Research Interests / Specializations: The intersection of art and politics, public arts policy, regionalisms and regional galleries, subject positions within the museum, socially engaged art/social practice, taste and social class.
Calla  Elia

Calla Elia



Research Interests / Specializations: Disability studies, architectural space and design, ethics of accommodation, agency, and identity.
Behnaz  Fatemi Jahmani

Behnaz Fatemi Jahmani



VAC 106C

Brittany Forrest

Brittany Forrest



Research Interests / Specializations: Sexual Manifestations, Gender Dysphoria, Perception Fabrications, Conditioning, Alienation, Mnemonic Memories.
Ronique Gillis

Ronique Gillis



Research Interests / Specializations: Black visual studies; Black ontology; Black bodies; colonialism/neocolonialism; decoloniality/decolonization; neoclassicism; contemporary art; British and American art.
Alexis  Gros-Louis

Alexis Gros-Louis



Xi Jin

Xi Jin



Research Interests / Specializations: Multimedia, installation, practices, materials, language, computational linguistics.
Jessica Joyce

Jessica Joyce



Research Interests / Specializations: Oil painting, portraiture, urban landscape, community art, climate change.
Masha Kouznetsova

Masha Kouznetsova



Research Interests / Specializations: Installation, improvisation, radio and transmission art, materiality and texture of sound, re/fragmentation of materials and found objects, pinhole and cameraless photography, drawing, experimental writing, translation and inbetweenness, place and placelessness.
Katie Lawson

Katie Lawson



Research Interests / Specializations: Museums; Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Curating; Climate Change; Sustainability; Waste; Water.
VAC 241 C3

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Yijing Angela Li

Yijing Angela Li



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Art; Photography; East Asian Studies; Chinese studies.
Derek Liddington

Derek Liddington



Ashar Mobeen

Ashar Mobeen



Research Interests / Specializations: Cosmology and visual culture; science and speculative thought; cultural transmission and translation; decolonization; epistemic justice; ecocriticism and climate humanities.
Melanie Naples

Melanie Naples



Margherita Papadatos

Margherita Papadatos



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary art, new media, installation art, continental philosophy, the sublime, time, space, memory, affect.
Danielle Petti

Danielle Petti



Research Interests / Specializations: Material agency, Foraged and natural pigments, geological timescales, ecological aesthetics, Cross-disciplinary research
Racquel  Rowe

Racquel Rowe



Natalie  Scola

Natalie Scola



Rojina Sebatiashraf

Rojina Sebatiashraf



Amy Skodak

Amy Skodak



Imogen Wilson

Imogen Wilson

Image credit: Lucas Cabral

Research Interests / Specializations: Net art, archiving, conservation in museums and DIY spaces, digital memory and media theory.