Research interests

Lauren Cruikshank

• New Media & Digital Culture
• Game Studies
• Popular Culture
• The Body
• Technology & Culture
• Feminist Media Theory

Anette Guse

• 18th and 20th century German literature and culture
• German language acquisition
• Music-theatre
• Opera
• Performing arts

Anna Hamling

• 19th and 20th Century Peninsular
• Latin American literature and culture
• Polish and Russian narrative
• Contemporary culture of Latin America and Spain
• Use of technology in second language acquisition
• Music, dance
• Religion
• Non-violence

Sophie M. Lavoie

• Women’s writing and social change in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Links between women’s writing, empowerment, and revolutionary action during the Sandinista era in Nicaragua

Sabine LeBel

• E-waste & planned obsolescence
• Affective responses to moments of technological failure
• Technologies as connected to larger infrastructures of production & disposal

Scott Preston

• Film genres, especially horror and supernatural narratives
• Canadian cinema
• Popular culture
• Film history
• Comparative media studies

Allan Reid

• Literary theory (Bakhtin, Lotman)
• World literature
• Russian literature (Babel, Aksyonov; Bulgakov; Gorbanevskaia)