People

Faculty
Steering Committee

Christine D'Onofrio

Christine D'Onofrio

Program Chair (on leave)

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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

Ernest Mathijs

Ernest Mathijs

Professor

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

Ilinca Iurascu

Ilinca Iurascu

Associate Professor

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Department

CENES
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

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Dr. 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

Patrick Pennefather

Patrick Pennefather

Assistant Professor

Department

Theatre & Film
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

Associate Professor of Teaching

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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

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Co-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

Sarah Leavitt

Sarah Leavitt

Assistant Professor

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Sarah 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

Saranaz Barforoush

Saranaz Barforoush

Assistant Professor of Teaching

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Department

Journalism
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