Directory: UofA Faculty
The purpose of this Directory is to provide a listing that can be used by colleagues and students to make connections and to learn more about researchers, projects and classes, as they navigate research-creation in relation to their own projects and practices.
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Sean Caulfield
Department
of Art and Design [SPAR²C co-director]
Sean Caulfield was named a Canada Research Chair in Fine Arts (Tier 2) from 2000 – 2010, and is a Centennial Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, living and working in Treaty Six territory. Through installation, sculpture and printmaking his work explores themes of environmental and corporeal transformation. The visual images and environments he creates blur boundaries between the biological and the technological, the organic and the mechanical, and challenge viewers to consider the implications of this merging. He has exhibited his prints, drawings, installations and artist’s books extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Keywords: Printmaking; Art and Science; Collaborative Practices
Beau Coleman
Department
of Drama [SPAR²C co-director]
Beau Coleman is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. Her multidisciplinary art practice includes performance art, live art, interdisciplinary creation, site-specific and participatory performance practices, revisionist theatre, video and installation. Her artistic works have been performed and exhibited extensively across Canada, United States and Europe, and in Africa, Asia, South America and Australia. Research-creation methodologies and practices are mobilized in her contemporary performance courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Image Credit: Ryan Parker
Keywords: Contemporary Theatre, Performance Art, Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Disability Arts
Diane Conrad
Department
of Secondary Education
Dr. Diane Conrad is Professor of drama/theatre education in the Department of Secondary Education, Faculty of Education. She is founder and director of the Arts-based Research Studio. She teaches a graduate course in arts-based research and a graduate course in participatory research with a focus on participatory arts-based approaches.
Keywords: Arts-Based Research; Community-Based Research; Participatory Art
Joan Greer
Department
of Art and Design
Joan E. Greer, PhD Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (Professor, University of Alberta), teaches the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture. Her research engages with issues of artistic identity, landscape art, the history of environmentalism, and theories of nature and ecological envisioning, both historically (most particularly in the long nineteenth century) and in contemporary art and design, with a special interest in The Netherlands and Belgium. Her ongoing major research project is entitled “Visualizations of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Print Culture: Religion, Science, Art” and she supports research-creation student research.
Keywords: Multispecies Studies; Pluriverse; Sustainability; Activist Art and Design
Gillian Harvey
Department
of Art and Design [SPAR²C co-director]
Gillian Harvey, MA (University of Reading, United Kingdom) is a professor in Design Studies (VCD) and an information designer and in the Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Gillian holds over a dozen regional, national, and international awards. She is a published writer in the Journal of Information Design. A project-based art director, Gillian’s core capabilities include typography and information design. She is the Canadian World Region Representative for the International Institute for Information Design (IIID).
Keywords: Visual Communication Design; Information Design; Typography; Wayfinding; Design for Decision Making; Social Marketing
Natalie Loveless
Department
of Art and Design [SPAR²C co-director]
Dr. Natalie S. Loveless is associate professor of Contemporary Art and Theory in the Department of Art and Design and director of the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. Dr. Loveless teaches contemporary art and theory with a focus on feminist art, performance art, conceptual art, activist art, and research-creation methodologies. Most of her upper-level courses include a research-creational component. Image Credit: Stephanie Loveless
Keywords: Feminist theorypractice; Multispecies Ethics; Performance Art; Gender and Sexuality
Sourayan Mookerjea
Department
of Sociology
Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea teaches in the Department of Sociology and is the research director of the Intermedia Research Studio. Dr. Mookerjea teaches contemporary social and cultural theory, global sociology, political ecology and intermedia theory with a focus on the intermediations of cultural and class politics, activist movements against interlocking oppressions. Graduate and senior undergraduate seminars often include intermedia research-creation probes.
Keywords: Media commons; Intermedia research; Poetry
Danielle Peers
Faculty of Kinesiology,
Sport, and Recreation
Dr. Danielle Peers is a Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures within the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation. Using a range of methods including Research-creation, Arts-Based Research, and Foucauldian genealogy, their work focuses on how movement cultures of all kinds -- including dance, recreation, and sport -- can deepen or challenge social inequities. Their research builds off of their experiences as a queer, disabled, non-binary paralympic athlete, coach, artist, and scholar.
Keywords: Critical Disability Studies; Social Justice; Gender and Sexuality
Scott Smallwood
Department
of Music [SPAR²C co-director]
Dr. Scott Smallwood teaches music composition, sonic art, and technology in the Department of Music, and also co-directs the Experimental Improvisation Ensemble, which explores alternative modes of performance and score creation. He is a past director of the Digital Humanities program, and currently serves as the director of the Sound Studies Institute. His creative work focuses on a practice of field recording, resulting in performative works as well as installation pieces, often involving custom software and hardware. He also creates experimental audio games and research through the EARS and Audio Games Lab.
Keywords: New and Experimental Music; Sound Studies; Game Studies; Sound Art
Lin Snelling
Department
of Drama
Lin Snelling is a Professor of Dance in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. Her performance, writing and teaching is based on the qualities improvisation can offer as it applies to dance, theatre, visual art and somatic practice. She is presently teaching dance, experiential anatomy and composition and is Coordinator of the MFA in Theatre Practice program. She has performed and shown work across North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. An interest in research-creation through an awareness of body is central to her creative work. Image Credit: Michael Reinhart
Keywords: Dance and Movement Creation; Collaborative Practices
Kim TallBear
Faculty of
Native Studies
Dr. Kim TallBear is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies. She is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment and leads the lab Indigenous Science, Technology and Society. She is also a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation (PETF) Fellow. Building on her research on the role of technoscience in settler colonialism, Dr. TallBear also studies the colonization of Indigenous sexuality, which shapes RELAB, a research-creation space that is grounded in Indigenous standpoints and in making “good relations”.
Keywords: Indigenous Technoscience; Feminist STS; Gender and Sexuality
Sheena Wilson
Faculty
Saint-Jean
Dr. Sheena Wilson is a professor at Faculty Saint-Jean and Associate Director Research for the Sustainability Council at the University of Alberta. She is the co-founder and co-director of the international Petrocultures Research Group, and she leads Just Powers, a national research project on climate and energy justice. Dr. Wilson's media, writing and literature courses are grounded in intersectional, decolonial, energy humanities; she supports students in and beyond the classroom to think through and act on climate and energy justice by mobilizing, where appropriate, research-creation methods and practices.
Keywords: Energy Transition; Climate Justice; Podcast Activism; Media Studies; Gender Studies; Documentary Film