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For information on PhD students’ research interests and current projects, please view the following pages:

To discover more about our individual faculty please visit our Faculty page. Research interests among ICSLAC faculty members include the following:

  • cultural theory, literary theory, film theory, aesthetics
  • diasporic cultures, literatures, cinemas, musics
  • sociology and aesthetics of music
  • post-colonial theory
  • semiotics
  • gender and the politics of cultural representation
  • cinema and nation studies
  • 18th, 19th and 20th century literatures in English and French
  • cultural studies
  • film, musical, literary and artistic avant-gardes
  • post-colonial literatures in English
  • Canadian art criticism and historiography
  • world popular musics
  • experimental film, video and new media
  • the relations between global information systems and local knowledges
  • cinemas and cultures of Latin America, Mexico, Canada, France, the United States
  • the histories of print, visual and aural culture
  • francophone literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean
  • cultural practices and the law
  • discourse analysis
  • memory, forgetting, and modes of historical understanding
  • technologies of production and reception
  • the construction of difference (gender, ethnicity, social class)
  • the functioning of ideology
  • the problematics of affect and corporeality
  • the meaning and ethics of cultural value
  • the relations between “high” and “low” cultural practices
  • the aesthetics of the popular
  • the meanings and function of pleasure
  • technology and the body