Faculty Members and Their Research Interests
Listed below are the current members of the faculty in the Humanities Graduate Studies program. The list is sorted according to the research interests of the faculty members in the fields of Comparative Perspectives and Cultural Boundries, Religion Values and Culture and Science, Technology and Culture
(Last updated: September 2008)
| Field I - Comparative Perspectives and Cultural Boundaries | |
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Gisela Argyle MA (Munich), Ph.D (York) Professor Emeritus Website | gargyle@yorku.ca |
Comparative literature: English/German, eighteenth to twentieth century; transnational genre formation; transformation of female life writings into male fiction. |
| Ian Balfour B.A. (York); M.A. (Toronto); Ph.D. (Yale) Professor Website | ibalfour@yorku.ca |
Romantic poetry and prose (mainly British and German), contemporary theory and criticism, and 18th-century literature and philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language). |
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Gary Butler BEd, BA, MA (Memorial), M.ès.L. (Bordeaux) PhD (Memorial) Professor Website | gbutler@yorku.ca |
Ethnographic analysis of oral discourse; oral traditions of French and African - Caribbean ethnic groups in North America; traditional and popular modes of expression and their influence on contemporary culture. |
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Carole Carpenter BSc (Dal.), AM, PhD (Penn.) Professor Website | carolec@yorku.ca |
Children's literature; children's culture and Canadian childhoods; folklore as a discourse of identity. |
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Matthew Clark BA, MA (Tor.), PhD (Harv.) Associate Professor Website | matthewc@yorku.ca |
The epic, from Homer to the Twentieth Century; the rhetorical tradition of persuasion and eloquence; the influence of classical literature on Western culture. |
| Elicia Clements BA (UWO), BMus (UWO), MA (York), PhD(York) , Assistant Professor elicia@yorku.ca |
Areas of research and teaching : Modernism, Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender Studies, Musicology |
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Tom Cohen AB (Mich. St.), PhD (Harv.) Professor Website | tcohen@yorku.ca |
Social, cultural and political anthropology of Renaissance Italy; microhistory. |
| Peter E. Cumming BA (Wilfrid Laurier), Diploma in Education (McGill), MA (Guelph), PhD (Western) Assistant Professor Website | cummingp@yorku.ca |
Children’s literature; contemporary Canadian fiction; First Nations literatures; gender studies (masculinities); digital humanities. |
| Andrea Davis BA (U. West Indies, MA, Ph.D (York) Associate Professor Website | aadavis@yorku.ca |
Literature and the African Diaspora; Gender and African – Canadian Literature; Caribbean literature. |
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John Dwyer BA, MA, PhD (Br. Col.) Professor Website | jdwyer@yorku.ca |
The Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century; Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment; Sentimental philosophy and the literature of the eighteenth century. |
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Jonathan Edmondson BA, MA, PhD (Camb.) Professor Website | jedmond@yorku.ca |
Roman social, cultural, and economic history; public spectacle in Roman society; the Roman family. |
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Seth Feldman BA (John Hopkins), PhD (Suny Buffalo) Professor Website | sfeldman@yorku.ca |
National and International Cinema; Canadian Cinema |
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Doug Freake BA (McG.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website | dfreake@yorku.ca |
Literary studies, especially early modern English literature, history and conceptualizations of the body. |
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Margo Gewurtz BA (Tor.), MA, PhD (Cornell) Professor Emertius Website | mgewurtz@yorku.ca |
Modern Sino-Western cultural relations; Canadian missionaries in China and their Chinese converts/partners. |
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Ted Goossen BA (Oberlin), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website | tgoossen@yorku.ca |
Traditional or contemporary Japan; western culture and the Oriental other; Asian culture and the Occidental other; comparative examinations of cultural constructs of selfhood, society, nature and the sacred in western and non-western societies. |
| Maria Constanza Guzman BA (Nacional de Colombia), MA (Kent St.) PhD (SUNY Binghamton) Assistant Professor Website | mguzman@glendon.yorku.ca |
Latin American Literature, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies: Contemporary theories of translation, literary translation, translation pedagogy, translaiton in the Americas. |
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Philip A. Harland BA (Waterloo), MA, PhD (Toronto) Assistant Professor Website | pharland@yorku.ca |
Social history of religious life in the Roman empire, especially Asia Minor; early Christianity; ancient Judaism; Greco-Roman religions. |
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Theresa Hyun BA (SUNY), MA, PhD (Iowa St.) Associate Professor Website | thyun@yorku.ca |
Korean women; writers and translation; translation as a form of cultural interaction; comparative literature and culture. |
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Susan Ingram BA (Bishop's); MA (McMaster), PhD (Alta) Assistant Professor Website | singram@yorku.ca |
Translation and fashion theory, intersections of film and Europe. |
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Joan Judge BA Honors (Alta) MA (Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Columbia University) PhD (Columbia University) Associate Professor Website | judge@yorku.ca |
Modern Chinese Cultural and Women's History, Chinese Print Culture, The Desacrilization of Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader in China, Gender and Modernity in the non-Western World |
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Marlene Kadar BA (Trent), MA (Wat.), PhD (Alta.) Professor Website | mkadar@yorku.ca |
Race, sex, gender, ethnicity and class in life writing practices; the construction of privilege and knowledge in women's writing; central European women in the Holocaust/Porrajmos. |
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Janine Marchessault BA (Concordia), MA(Wat.), PhD(York) Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor Website | jmarches@yorku.ca |
Cities and Architecture, film and media studies, science and technology, aesthetics, feminist cultures, translocalism, global flows, the Toronto School of Communication. |
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Steven Mason BA, MA (McM.), PhD (St. M. Coll., Tor.) Canada Research Chair, Professor Website | smason@yorku.ca |
Judean history and literature in the Roman period; Roman -provincial relations in the Eastern Mediterranean; Christian origins; ancient historiography and rhetoric. |
| Peter M McIsaac BS (U Michigan), Ph.D (Harvard) Associate Professor Website;pmcisaac@yorku.ca |
Post-1750 Germanophone literature, film and culture; museum studies and theories of collecting; history of science (especially Germany/Austria); German and European cultural policy; theories of sex and gender |
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Arun Mukherjee MA, PhD (Toronto) Professor Website | amukherj@yorku.ca |
South Asian Literature, Dalit literature, Minority Canadian literatures. |
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Douglas Peers BA, MA (Cal.) PhD (Lond.) Professor, Dean of Graduate Studies | fgsdean@yorku.ca |
British Imperialism, particularly Colonial Rule in India; Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Historiography; print culture and imperialism; masculinity and empire; militarization of colonial rule |
| Nalini Persram BA, (Regina), BA (Victoria), MA (East Anglia.) PhD (Aberystwyth)) Associate Professor Website | persramn@yorku.ca |
Subjectivity and survival, postcoloniality, feminism, Caribbean culture and thought, social and political theory and empire. |
| Markus Reisenleitner MA, PhD (Vienna) Assistant Professor Website | mrln@yorku.ca |
Humanities; Visual and Textual Representations of Global Cities, European Urban Culture, and theories of Space and the Environment. |
| Leslie Sanders BA, MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor leslie@yorku.ca |
African American and African Canadian literature, theatre and culture. |
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Victor Shea BA (PEI), MA (Tor.), PhD (York) Associate Professor Website | vshea@yorku.ca |
Victorian culture, North American studies, critical theory, and childhood culture. |
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Richard Teleky BA (Case West.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website | rtelekey@yorku.ca |
Early twentieth-century modernism; Central European literature; Hollywood films before 1950; the creative process. |
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Malcolm Thurlby BA, PhD (East Anglia) Professor Website | thurlby@sympatico.ca |
Medieval art and architecture and Canadian architecture, Romanesque architecture in the British Isles, Gothic revival architecture in Ireland, nineteenth century churches in Canada. |
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Priscila Uppal BA, PhD (York), MA (Tor.) Associate Professor Website | puppal@yorku.ca |
Creative Writing, Canadian Prose and Poetry. |
| Jim Vernon BA, (McMaster), MA(Guelph), PhD (Guelph) Associate Professor jvernon@yorku.ca |
19th and 20th Century continental philosophy, focusing on German Idealism (esp.Kant and Hegel) and post-structuralism (esp. Derrida and Deleuze); political philosophy; philosophy of language. |
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Alan Weiss BA, MA (Concord.). PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website | aweiss@yorku.ca |
Canadian fiction and fantastic literature; utopian/dystopian thought and literature; science fiction and fantasy. |
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Michael Brown BA (Harv.), MA (Col.), PhD (S.U.N.Y. Buffalo) M.H.L., Hon.D.D. (Jewish Theological Seminary) Professor Emeritus Website | michaelb@yorku.ca |
Modern Jewish literature and history; holocaust studies. |
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Amila Buturovic BA (Sarajevo), MA, PhD (McG.) Associate Professor Website | amilab@yorku.ca |
Islamic Studies; literature and cultural encounters; national, religious, ethnic and gender identities. |
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Carl S. Ehrlich BA (Mass.), MA, PhD (Harv.), Professor Website | ehrlich@yorku.ca |
Hebrew Bible; 'biblical' archaeology; ancient Near Eastern studies and Jewish studies. |
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Patrick Gray TR, BA (Tor.), STM (Yale), STB, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website | pgray@yorku.ca |
Fifth and Sixth-Century Theology of Byzantium, Palestine in the Byzantine period, Justinian, Fifth Ecumenical, Church Fathers. |
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Sara Horowitz BA (CCNY), MA (Col.), PhD (Brandeis) Professor Website | srh@yorku.ca |
Gender and the Holocaust; memory, narrative and Jewish culture. |
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Avron Kulak BA, MA, PhD (York) Assistant Professor | akulak@yorku.ca |
Philosophical and religious values in modern European thought: Descartes to Derrida. |
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Eric Lawee BA(Tor.), PhD (Harv.) Associate Professor Website | lawee@yorku.ca |
Medieval and early modern Judaism in southern Europe. |
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Becky Lee BA (Wat.), MA (W. Laur.), PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website | blee@yorku.ca |
History of Religion; particularly medieval rituals and customs related to childbirth, lay spirituality, and the methods and theories of women's history and gender history; feminist approaches to religion, the western religious traditions, and the methods and theories of the comparative study of religion. |
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Martin Lockshin BA (Touro), MA, PhD (Brandeis) Professor Website | lockshin@yorku.ca |
Classical Jewish Studies; history of the interpretation of the Bible |
Deborah Orr |
Wittgenstein; The philosophy of Classical Yoga, Middle-way Buddhism, Mindfulness (Patanjali, Nagarjuna); Contemplative/mindful pedagogy and anti-oppressive pedagogy; embodiment and the construction of subjectivity. |
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Brayton Polka AB, PhD (Harv.) Professor Emeritus Website | bpolka@rogers.com |
Hermeneutics and metaphysics in European philosophical andreligious thought; Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche |
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Jamie Scott BA (Camb.), MA (Qu.), MA (Car.), PhD (Chic.) Professor Website | jscott@yorku.ca |
World religions and postcolonial cultures; world religions in Canada; literature, religion and geography; and cinema and world religions. |
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Joan Steigerwald BA, MA (Manit.), PhD (Lond.) Associate Professor, Director of the Graduate Program Website | steiger@yorku.ca |
Cultural contexts of science, the history of the life sciences and of environmental thought, German idealism, Romanticism and natural philosophy, figural representations of nature, and the epistemology of experiment and technology.
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Patrick Taylor BA, MA, PhD (York) Associate Professor Website | taylorp@yorku.ca |
Post-colonial thought and culture; religion, popular culture and literature of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora. |
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Stan Tweyman BA. MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website | stweyman@yorku.ca |
Methodological and cultural foundations of religion and morality; Enlightenment thought; methodological nature of scholarly exegesis. |
| Keith Weiser BA (Yale.), MA and PhD (Columbia) Associate Professor Website | kweiser@yorku.ca |
Modern and Eastern European Jewish History, Israel Studies, Yiddish language and culture, sociology of language |
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Alan Weiss BA, MA (Concord.). PhD (Tor.) Website | aweiss@yorku.ca |
Apocalyptic science fiction and its roots |
| William Westfall BA (Trin. Coll, Tor.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website | westfall@yorku.ca |
Nineteenth century Canadian religious, social, and cultural history; systems of religion; patterns of culture; art and architecture; clerical formation. |
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Barrie Wilson BA (Bishop's), MA (Col.), STB, PhD (Tor.) Professor Emeritus Website | barrie.wilson@rogers.com |
Christianity of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE; Gnosticism; Professor Emeritus; Early Judaism 1st century BCE. |
| Field III - The Cultures, technologies and sciences in the modern | |
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Katherine Anderson BA, (McG),MA (Mass.), PhD (N'western) Associate Professor website | kateya@yorku.ca |
History of modern science; science writing; technology change and cultural history. |
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Steven Bailey AB (Bard), MA (Iowa), MA (Bowling Green) PhD (Ill.) Associate Professor Website | bailey@yorku.ca |
Social and cultural impacts of information and communication technology; identity and technology; contemporary philosophy and information technology. |
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Jody Berland BA, MA (S. Fraser), PhD (York) Associate Professor Website | jberland@yorku.ca |
Techno-cultural studies; narratives of nature and the environment; Canadian cultural studies. |
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Martin Fichman BS (Brooklyn Poly.), MA, PhD (Harv.) Professor Emeritus Website | mfichman@yorku.ca |
Cultural/intellectual history of the Enlightenment; modern European and North American cultural and intellectual history; science, technology, and culture (1700-present); evolutionary theory and Victorian culture. |
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Ernst Hamm BA (Br. Col.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Assistant Professor Website | ehamm@yorku.ca |
Enlightenment and Romantic science; the history of the earth sciences and natural history; the interactions of science and technology; the relationship between the natural and the human sciences. |
| Edward Jones-Imhotep BA (York.), PhD (Harvard) Associate Professor Website | imhotep@yorku.ca |
History of modern physics; history and philosophy of technology; cultural history of reliability; science, technology and national identity. |
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Kenton Kroker PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website | kkrocker@yorku.ca |
History of biomedical instrumentation and experimentation, the history of immunology, neurology, and psychological medicine. |
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Bernard Lightman BA, MA (York), PhD (Brandeis) Professor website| lightman@yorku.ca |
Popular science; science and religion; science and visual culture. |
| Peter M McIsaac BS (U Michigan), Ph.D (Harvard) Associate Professor Website;pmcisaac@yorku.ca |
Post-1750 Germanophone literature, film and culture; museum studies and theories of collecting; history of science (especially Germany/Austria); German and European cultural policy; theories of sex and gender |
| Shobna Nijhawan MA (Heidelberg), PhD (UC Berkeley) Assistant Professor Website | shobna@yorku.ca |
Early twentieth-century North India: Hindi public sphere, nationalist discourse, women's writings, colonial medicine in Hindi and Urdu periodicals and fiction |
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Douglas Peers BA, MA (Cal.) PhD (Lond.) Professor, Dean of Graduate Studies | fgsdean@yorku.ca |
British Imperialism, particularly Colonial Rule in India; Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Historiography; print culture and imperialism; masculinity and empire; militarization of colonial rule. |
| Catriona (Cate) Mortimer-Sandilands BA (UVIC); MA, PhD (York) Professor and Canada Research Chair Website ; essandi@yorku.ca |
Environment, culture and literature; political theory and public culture; gender, sexuality and environments; queer theory. |
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Ann Shteir BA (Douglass), PhD (Rutg.) Professor Emeritus Website | rshteir@yorku.ca |
Women, gender, science; ideas of nature and the "natural"; 18th-century studies. |
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Joan Steigerwald BA, MA (Manit.), PhD (Lond.) Associate Professor, Director of the Graduate Program Website | steiger@yorku.ca |
History of the life sciences and of the environmental thought; German romanticism and natural philosophy; figural representations of nature; the epistemology of experiment and technology. |
| Alan Weiss BA, MA (Concord.). PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website | aweiss@yorku.ca |
Science fiction and fantasy; utopian/dystopian thought and literature |
