Associated Faculty
Biz Nijdam
Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is an Assistant Professor in German Studies. She graduated from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2017, after receiving her Masters in Germanic Studies from the University of Victoria in 2007. Her dissertatio...Read more
Brent Strang
With research interests that primarily focuses on masculinities in American film & television, business histories of the home entertainment industry, and attention-capture through interface design & interaction peripherals, Brent Strang’s most recent publication is “Armchair Harmonics: R...Read more
Department
Theatre & Film
Christine D'Onofrio
Christine D'Onofrio
Associate Professor of Teaching | Chair, Bachelor of Media Studies
Christine 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
Christine Evans
Christine Evans’ pedagogic research focuses on bridging film theoretical, psychoanalytic, and ideological approaches with evidence-based scholarly teaching in film and media studies. She has a particular interest in curriculum design, repurposing ‘traditional’ teaching and evaluative practices...Read more
Department
Theatre & Film
Damla Tamer
Damla Tamer
Sessional Faculty
emaildamla.tamer@ubc.ca
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 204
Department
Art History, Visual Art & TheoryDamla Tamer is an artist who explores notions of interiority and exteriority in aesthetic and political realms, in relation to bodies' encounters with things and each other, their socialization and politicization. She works with mark-marking at the intersections of drawing, textile, and quasi-photog...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
Theatre & Film
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Professor | Co-Founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program
emailwinthrop@mail.ubc.ca
After graduating from UBC in 1991, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young taught at the Universities of Manitoba and Waterloo before returning to UBC in 1995, where he teaches in the German and Scandinavian sections of CENES. His initial area of research was the 18th century, but he is now primarily interested in ...Read more
Ilinca Iurascu
Ilinca Iurascu
Associate Professor
location_onBuchanan Tower 926
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.
Jaleh Mansoor
Jaleh Mansoor
Associate Professor
emailjaleh.mansoor@ubc.ca
Department
Art History, Visual Art & TheoryJaleh Mansoor is a writer and an associate professor of Art History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where she teaches modern and contemporary art history with an emphasis on Post WWII European Art. Her areas of interest, in addition to art and its histories, include Materialist F...Read more
Department
Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Jennifer Moss
Jennifer Moss
Adjunct Professor
emailjennifer.moss@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E458
Department
Creative WritingHaving been a storyteller for nearly 20 years, Jennifer Moss has worked in theatre, print journalism, radio, new media, and interactive media production - writing stories that primarily focuses on arts, local issues, and character-driven stories. She is interested in cross-genre and cross-department...Read more
Department
Creative Writing
Jessica Wong
Jessica Wong's professional interest lies in the areas of data management, data usability, educational technologies, and digital health.
Jessica is currently teaching CPSC 103: Introduction to Systematic Program Design in the BMS program.
Department
Computer Science
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
Jodie Leung
Jodie Leung is a BMS alumna and holds a Master of Management from UBC Sauder School of Business. Her areas of interest include media theory, emerging technology development, and the intersection of business strategy and the media industries. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her teaching portfoli...Read more
Department
Media Studies
Josh Hite
Josh Hite
Sessional Instructor
emailjosh.hite@ubc.ca
location_onDorothy Somerset Studio 204
Department
Art History, Visual Art & TheoryJosh Hite works with video, animation, sound, and photography, often creating reorganized archives of particular spaces or behaviours, either through his own recordings or by appropriating content through sites like YouTube. Leaning more on an ethnography that acknowledges content as a driving forc...Read more
Department
Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Kasim Husain
Kasim Husain has a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. His most recent teaching has focused on topics and approaches such as decolonial pedagogy, empathy, neoliberalism and the cultural politics of race, reception theory, social media, and the podcast as media form and rese...Read more
Katie Fitzpatrick
Katie Fitzpatrick
Instructor
emailfitzpatr@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBUTO 202
Department
Coordinated Arts ProgramKatie Fitzpatrick is passionate about first-year instruction, interdisciplinary inquiry, and public scholarship.
Katie is currently teaching ASTU 100: Arts Studies in Research and Writing in the BMS program.
Department
Coordinated Arts Program
Keren Zaiontz
Keren is a performance studies scholar who researches contemporary art and performance practices, the cultural politics of festivals, the aesthetics and politics of activism and, more recently, the performative strategies of populist movements and authoritarian regimes. She regularly teaches CINE 24...Read more
Department
Theatre & Film
Kevin McNeilly
A scholar and poet with interests in contemporary North American poetics, improvisation and social aesthetics, intersections of music, text and media, intermediality and the poetics of listening, Kevin's work investigates the intersections of music, text and media.
Kevin McNeilly currently teach...Read more
Department
English Language & Literatures
Kevin Day
Kevin Day
Sessional Instructor
emailkevinday@mail.ubc.ca
location_on479 IKBLC
Department
Art History, Visual Art & TheoryKevin T. Day is a Taiwanese-Canadian media artist and theorist. His practice and research, encompassing sound, video, graph, web, and interactive installations, examine contemporary art’s critical capacity in response to the current socio-political issues of digital culture. He has exhibited at ve...Read more
Department
Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Lisa Nathan
Lisa Nathan
Associate Professor
emaillisa.nathan@ubc.ca
phone604-822-1574
location_onIKBLC 481
Department
Information StudiesLisa Nathan is an Associate Professor at the iSchool, and teaches design-oriented courses related to information practice, information ethics, Indigenous information initiatives, and information policy. From 2010-2018 she served as the Coordinator of the First Nations Curriculum Concentration. Lisa...Read more
Department
Information Studies
Meghan Allen
Meghan is currently teaching CPSC 103: Introduction to Systematic Program Design in the BMS program.
Department
Computer Science
Patrick Pennefather
Patrick Pennefather
Associate Professor
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
Richard Arias-Hernández
Richard Arias-Hernández
Associate Professor of Teaching | Academic Director at Vantage College
emailrichard.arias@ubc.ca
location_on484 IBLC
Department
Information StudiesRichard 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
Department
Information Studies
Richard Cavell
Richard Cavell
Professor | Co-Founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program
emailr.cavell@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 506
Department
English Language & LiteraturesCo-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 & Literatures
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
Assistant Professor of Teaching
location_onSing Tao 206
Department
Journalism, Writing, and MediaSaranaz 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, Writing, and Media
T’ai Smith
T’ai Smith
Associate Professor
emailtai.smith@ubc.ca
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 269
Department
Art History, Visual Art & TheoryT’ai Smith’s research, teaching, and advising focuses on the areas of modern and contemporary European and American art and design, visual studies, critical theory, and media theory. She focuses on the politics of mediation, gender, labor, and economy.
T’ai Smith currently teaches ARTH 480...Read more
Department
Art History, Visual Art & Theory