Skip to main content
Glendon Campus Alumni Research Giving to York Media Careers International York U Lions Accessibility
Future Students Current Students Faculty and Staff
Faculties Libraries York U Organization Directory Site Index Campus Maps
Graduate Program in Communication & Culture

Faculty Profiles

Janine Marchessault

Media & Culture

University   York University
E-Mail Address   jmarches@yorku.ca
Phone Number   (416)736-2100, ext. 33485
Office Location   CFA 303
Office Hours   TBA

Education

B.A. (Concordia); M.F.A. (York); Ph.D. (York)

Biography

Professor Marchessault is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization. She is a co-investigator on a Major Collaborative Research Initiative to study the Culture of Cities in Toronto, Berlin, Montreal and Dublin. She is the Director of the Visible City Project and Archive which is examining the creative industries and artists cultures across several cities. She has recently completed a book on Marshall McLuhan's contribution to Canadian Cultural Studies.

Research Interests

Cities and architecture, film and media studies, science and technology, aesthetics, feminist cultures, translocalism, global flows, the Toronto School of Communication.

Selected Publications

With Susan Lord, Fluid Screens:Expanded Cinema and Time (UTP 2007).

McLuhan: Cosmic Media. London: Sage Publications, 2005.

W ith Kim Sawchuck (ed.), Wild Science:Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media. New York, London: Routledge, 2001.

"Film Scenes: Paris, New York, Toronto," Public 23 (2001): 56-74.

"Learning the New Information Order," in Jody Berland and Shelly Hornstein (eds.), Cultural Capital: Symbolic Production and Community Formation in the Technological State. (McGill-Queens Press, 2000).

"Sympathetic Understanding in Tu as Cri¨¦: let me go," Canadian Journal of Film Studies 10-2 (2001): 21-35.

With Kay Armitage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow (eds.), Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.


Current projects:

Artists and cities www.visiblecity.ca;

New Media/New Narratives
www.futurecinema.ca

Founding editor of Public:
Arts/Culture/Ideas (www.publicjournal.ca)
 

 

 

By Field of Study


Alphabetical

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Z

Harold [Innis] taught us how to use the bias of culture and communication as an instrument of research. By directing attention to the bias, or distorting power of the dominant imagery and technology of any culture, he showed us how to understand cultures.
~ Marshall McLuhan