Graduate Studies

Although my home unit, Fine Arts Cultural Studies (FACS), does not have a graduate program, I have had a long association with the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) at York University in a variety of supervisory, mentoring, and service capacities. Most notably has been my ongoing association with the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, a unit that reflects FACS's commitment to interdisciplinarity. Within this Program, I have served as Interim Director, chaired supervisory committees, participated as voting member in oral examinations, and served on its Executive Board, Advisory and Search Committees. To a lesser extent, I also work with other graduate programs including the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, the Graduate Program in Art History, and the Graduate Program in Film.

Given my TEL appointment in learning technologies and the diversity of my teaching load, I've had an extraordinary opportunity to work with numerous groups of graduate student teaching assistants (TAs). My goal has always been to work within an interactive, web-based environment that is conceptually and pedagogically innovative. TAs learn to work within a blended, web-enhanced, or fully online learning-centered environment.


Graduate Students

York & Ryerson: Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture

Co-Reader with R. Bruce Elder (Ryerson)
M.A. Candidate: Jennifer O'Leary
Working Title (Paper Thesis and Photographs): "Freezing the Gaze" 2005 -

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Supervisory Committee with Don Dippo (Education) and Don Sinclair (FACS)
M.A. Candidate: Mari Nicolson
External Examiner: tba
Multimedia (Visual) Production Thesis: "Visual Culture and Adolescent Identity Formation"
2004 -

York & Ryerson: Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture

Co-Reader with R. Bruce Elder (Ryerson)
M.A. Candidate: Anne Doelman
Paper Thesis and Video: "The Skeletons are in the Closet but the Films are in the Basement: Finding a Grandfather in 16mm"
2003

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Supervisory Committee with Carole Carpenter and Christopher Innis
M.A. Candidate: Sara Thompson
External Examiner: Sean Kane (Trent University)
Paper Thesis: "The Words That Remain: Two Theories of Performance and the Question of Identity in Contemporary Variations of 'Sleeping Beauty'"
2001-2004

Graduate Programme in Art History

Second Reader of Major Research Paper (MRP)
M.A. Candidate: Janice Kowalski
MRP: "Close Encounters of the Continuum: Speaking (to), Performing and Experiencing Gender in Janet Cardiff¹s Whispering Room"
2001-2002

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Chair, Supervisory Committee with Rob Albritton (Political Science) and Tim Whiten (Visual Arts)
External Examiner: Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto
M.A. Candidate: Krys Verral (1996 -1999)
Web-Enhanced Paper Thesis: "Meaning & Purpose': Five Painters in Ottawa and the Governance of Exhibitionary Spaces"
1996-1999

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Supervisory Committee with Amila Buturovic (Humanities) and Aideh Moghissi (Sociology/School of Arts and Letters)
External Examiner: Sharzad Mojab, University of Toronto
M.A. Candidate: Gita Hashemi
CD: "Shifting Shadow Solitude"
Paper Thesis: "Between Parallel Mirrors: Foucault, Atoussa and Me on Sexuality of History"
1997-1999

Graduate Programme in Art History

Second Reader of Major Research Paper (MRP)
M.A. Candidate: Linda Steer
MRP: "Representing the (Un)Known: The Uncanny and the Abject in Jeff Wall's Photographs"
1998

Graduate Programme in Art History

Second Reader of Major Research Paper (MRP)
M.A. Candidate: Sarah Bassnett
MRP: "Moral Regulation and the Education of Canadian Citizens: Photographic Representations of Toronto School Children"
1998

Graduate Programme in Art History

Second Reader of Major Research Paper (MRP)
M.A. Candidate: Nikolina Kurtovic
MRP: "Reading the Family Album: Between the Studium and the Punctum"
1998

Graduate Programme in Art History

Second Reader of Major Research Paper (MRP)
M.A. Candidate: Jonathan Finn
MRP: "Metropolitan Toronto Police & Photography:The Identification, Examination and Mapping of the Body"
1996-1997

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Chair, Supervisory Committee: with Naomi Adeson (Anthropology) and Deborah Britzman (Education)
External Examiner: James Miller, University of Western Ontario
M.A. Candidate: Paul Johnston
Paper Thesis and Photographic Exhibition: "'sero-logues:' A Collaborative Approach to AIDS Photographic Representation"
1994-1997

Graduate Student Oral Examinations

Graduate Programme in Film Production

External Examiner at Oral Examination(voting member)
M.F.A. Candidate: John Kneller
Title: "Continuum: a film trilogy"
2007

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Chair at Oral Examination (voting member)
External Examiner: R. Bruce Elder, Ryerson
M.A. Candidate: Aubi Golombek
Paper thesis and Photographic Exhibition: "Christ before Christians: The Christological Incarnation of Renaissance Perspective"
2003

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Chair at Oral Examination (voting member)
External Examiner: Dr. K. Delhi, OISE
M.A. Candidate: Anna Liv Isacsson
Paper thesis: "Geographies of Female Courtship: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles"
2003

Graduate Programme in Film and Video

Outside Examiner at Oral Examination (voting member)
M.A. Candidate: Jaroslav Stepanenko
Paper thesis: "Ecce Home: Behold the Man! A Documentary Film about Peter Stepanenko attempted by his Younger Brother Jaroslav"
2002

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Chair at Oral Examination (voting member)
External Examiner: T. Dilworth, University of Western Ontario
M.A. Candidate: Rhett Andrew
Paper thesis: "Respect: The Parabolic Quest of Self-Realization"
2001

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Chair at Oral Examination (voting member)
External Examiner: Tullio Caputo, University of Ottawa
M.A. Candidate: Rosemary Mantini
2001

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Dean's Representative at Oral Examination (voting member)
External Examiner: D. Galbraith, University of Toronto
M.A. Candidate: Gordon Barensten
Paper thesis: "'Where is the Anti-Nowhere League?' English Romanticism and Punk Subculture"
1998

Supervision of Graduate Reading Courses

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

John Morden and Sonja Puschchak, Masters Candidates
Printed Book Format: "Study and Making Images of Evolution and Devolution"
Winter 2009

Graduate Programme in Music

Melissa West, Ph.D. Candidate
CD Format: "Linking Helene Cixous' Concept of L'ecriture Feminine to Hypermedia"
Paper and Presentation: "A Possibility for Feminist Methodology"
1999-2000

Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology

Jacquelyne Luce, Ph.D. Candidate
FA/FILM 5800 6.0
1996-1997

Graduate Programme in Art History

Sarah Bassnett, Masters Candidate
FA/FILM5800 6.0
1996-1997

Graduate Programme in Art History

Jonathan Finn, Masters Candidate
FA/FILM5800 3.0
1996

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Krys Verrall, Masters Candidate
FA/FILM5800 3.0
1996

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Paul Johnston,Masters Candidate
Inst. 5050 3.0 (Winter 1996), Inst 5010 3.0 (Winter 1995)


Supervision of Graduate Student Teaching, Research and Grading Assistants

Arts and Ideas - FACS 1900 C

Marcie Bronson, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Art History)
Christy DiFelice, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Music)
Vicky Moufawad, Teaching Assistant (M.F.A. Candidate in Film & Video)
Aimee Robinson, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Dance)
Stefanie Samuels, Teaching Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate in Communication & Culture)
Siobhan Smith, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Art History)
2004-2005

Arts and Ideas - FACS 1900 C

Orhan Anafarta, Teaching Assistant (M.F.A. Candidate in Film & Video)
Anne Doelman, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Communications & Culture)
Robert Hyland, Teachiing Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Film & Video)
Anna Isacsson, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies)
Meg Kwasnicki, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Music)
2002-2003

Arts and Ideas - FACS 1900 C

Abul Ahmed, Teaching Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate in Communications & Culture)
Orhan Anafarta, Teaching Assistant (M.F.A. Candidate in Film & Video)
Kate Bride, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Art History)
Janice Kowalski, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Art History)
Priya Thomas, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Dance)
2001-2002

Arts and Ideas - FACS 1900 B

Sarah Bassnett, Teaching Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at University of Binghampton)
Firoza Elavia, Teaching Assistant (M.A. Candidate in Women's Studies)
Krys Verrall, Teaching Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at University of Toronto)
2000-2001

Graduate Programme in Music

Christy DeFelice, Marker/Grader (M.A. Candidate)
2005-2009

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Emmanuel Mutsune, Research Assistant (M.A. Candidate)
2004

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Sarah Thompson, Research Assistant (M.A. Candidate)
2000

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Gita Hashemi, Research Assistant (M.A. Candidate)
1997-1998

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Krys Verrall, Research Assistant (M.A. Candidate)
1996-1997

Graduate Studies

Graduate Students

Graduate Student Oral Examinations

Supervision of Graduate Reading Courses

Supervision of Graduate Student Teaching & Research Assistants



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