Media Studies Faculty

In considering potential chief supervisors, students should be careful to determine that the faculty member of choice has the appropriate supervisory status. 

Dr. Robert Babe

  • political economy; economics and the environment; Canadian communication thought

Dr. Tim Blackmore

  • popular culture; war studies; industrial culture

Dr. Jacquelyn Burkell

  • information use; human-computer interface design

Dr. Jonathan Burston

  • political economy; popular music; entertainment studies

Dr. Grant Campbell

  • information organization; resource description and classification

Dr. Norma Coates

  • popular music studies; media and cultural studies; television studies; U.S. media history; gender theory

Dr. Edward Comor

  • political economy of communication and culture; medium theory; international studies

Dr. James Compton

  • political economy of news media; popular culture; the spectacular

Dr. Nick Dyer-Witheford

  • political economy of information; cyber-Marxism; video-gaming

Dr. Carole Farber

  • computer-mediated communication; learning/virtual world technologies; critical theory 

Dr. Bernd Frohmann

  • political economy of information; social studies of information

Dr. Amanda Grzyb

  • activism, social justice, and media studies; Holocaust and genocide studies; American and African-American literature and cultural studies; interdisciplinary approaches to homelessness; theory and criticism

Dr. Alison Hearn

  • media and cultural studies; visual/televisual culture; technology and cultural form; aesthetics and politics; feminist theory

Dr. Keir Keightley

  • popular music and film studies; masculinity, taste and celebrity culture

Dr. Susan Knabe

  • gender and sexuality studies; critical theory and cultural studies; medicalization and the media; popular culture

Dr. Lynne McKechnie

  • children, media (including children's literature), public libraries and reading; qualitative research methods

Dr. Ajit Pyati

  • information/knowledge society; information policy; critical globalization and development studies

Dr. Anabel Quan-Haase

  • Internet studies; information use; computer-mediated communication

Dr. Daniel Robinson

  • advertising; alcohol and tobacco marketing; opinion polling; political communication

Dr. Catherine Ross

  • reading experience; information practices

Dr. Kamran Sedig

  • Human-information interaction; learning and cognitive technologies; interactive games; information visualization; interface design; information artifacts 

Dr. Sharon Sliwinski

  • visual culture; psychoanalysis; history and theory of photography; human rights and humanitarianism

Dr. Sandra Smeltzer

  • political economy of international communication and culture; politics and rhetoric of development communication (focus area: Malaysia); technology and "progress"

Dr. Romayne Smith Fullerton

  • media ethics; media and gender

Prof. Daniela Sneppova

  • multimedia theory and production; visual art

Dr. David Spencer

  • newspaper and broadcast history in Canada; political cartooning; communications theory

Dr. Matt Stahl

  • cultural labour; copyright; contract and employment; popular music; animation

Dr. Sasha Torres

  • television and film studies; critical race studies; cultural studies

Dr. Samuel Trosow

  • information law and policy

Dr. Liwen Vaughan

  • Webometrics; Web data mining; information systems