Steering Committee
Christine D'Onofrio
Christine D'Onofrio
Program Chair
Department
Art History, Visual Art & TheoryChristine D’Onofrio has been teaching in the BMS program since its inception in 2014. As an artist researcher and educator, she works in analogue and digital lens based media, interactive media, printmaking, sculpture, book works, and installation.
Christine currently teaches MDIA 150: Media Co...Read more
Department
Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Ernest Mathijs
Ernest researches the receptions of what can broadly be called 'alternative cinema' - cult film, genre cinema, independent films, David Cronenberg, and European horror films. He has also written on The Lord of the Rings, Belgian Cinema, the reality TV series Big Brother, the literature of Thomas ...Read more
Department
Film Studies & Film Production
Ilinca Iurascu
Ilinca Iurascu’s research focuses on intersections between cultural studies and media theory, with particular focus on histories of materiality, technology and literature.
Ilinca Iurascu teaches GMST 274: The Frankfurt School in the BMS program.
Department
CENES
Jillian Lerner
Jillian Lerner
Assistant Professor of Teaching
location_onLasserre 212
Department
Art History, Visual Art & TheoryDr. Jillian Lerner specializes in nineteenth-century visual culture, with an interest in print, photography, and technologies of seeing. Along with articles in Grey Room, History of Photography, Oxford Art Journal, and The Art Bulletin, she is the author of two books, Graphic Culture: Illustration a...Read more
Department
Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Patrick Pennefather
Patrick Pennefather is passionate about bridging disciplines of practice and thrives in collaborative projects. He is a designer of interactive experiences working as a sound designer, designer of learning and producer of scalable virtual and augmented reality prototypes. Through his work with UBC's...Read more
Department
Theatre & Film
Richard Arias-Hernández
Richard Arias-Hernández has been teaching in the BMS program since its inception in 2014 and was Acting Program Chair of the BMS in 2018-19 and in 2021-22. An Associate Professor of Teaching at the School of Information who teaches on information systems, data analytics, information visualization, ...Read more
Richard Cavell
Richard Cavell
Professor; Co-Founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program
emailr.cavell@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 506
Department
English Language & LiteratureCo-Founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program, Richard Cavell is an English professor whose research interests in media theory and Canadian studies finds common ground in his publications on foundational media theorist Marshall McLuhan.
Richard Cavell currently teaches ENGL 232: Approaches ...Read more
Department
English Language & Literature
Sarah Leavitt
Sarah Leavitt
Assistant Professor
emailsarah.leavitt@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E470
Department
Creative WritingSarah Leavitt is a cartoonist and educator whose particular areas of interest include autobiographical comics, formal experimentation in comics, and comics pedagogy – developing strategies for teaching comics creation as well as exploring how comics creation shapes students’ work in other forms ...Read more
Department
Creative Writing
Saranaz Barforoush
Saranaz Barforoush has worked as a reporter and translator for more than a decade in Tehran, where she reported on various subjects such as women’s issues, arts, culture and technology. Her research interests include foreign affairs, international reporting ethics, political communication and im...Read more
Department
Journalism