Supervising is not easy, but I am drawn to the intensity of the task. At times one feels torn between the roles of intimate critic and cheerleader. Balancing is paramount. Each supervision entails a commitment to the student, to the development of their capacities and independence as an intellectual and to our research areas. Much of my supervision is of students working within feminist theory, media studies and cultural studies. These projects often dovetail with my areas of specialization, such as bio-medicine, wireless technologies or the media arts. But supervision also requires finding a shared sensibility, nurturing mutual respect and quite often a methodological connection, rather than one based on a topic or sub-area. In addition to the written thesis, I have supervised a number of projects and MFAs over the years. I have had the good fortune to supervise a number of extraordinary students over the past 17 years that I have taught at Concordia. What characterizes many of these works is their rigour and their ‘riskiness’: many are epistemologically and methodologically inventive, and politically and ethically challenging.
Current
Doctoral Students/Communications
Judith Nicholson
Kenneth Werbin
Caroline Caron
Andrea Zeffiro
Marie-Hélène Lemaire
Mélanie Hogan (co-supervision with Matt Soar)
Shirley Roburn (co-supervision with Peter Van Wyck)
Doctoral/Humanities and SIP
Jennifer Willet
Andre’ Arnold
Doctoral Graduates
Linnet Fawcett, Writing the Skating Body: Movement, Affect Space, Dec. 15, 2006.
Robyn Diner, Unruly Bodies and the Politics of Irony, Sept. 10, 2004.
Clive Robertson, Movement + Apparatus: Artist-Run Centres in Canada, Sept. 10, 2004 (co-supervised with Martin Allor)
Sandra Gabriele, Gendering the Woman Journalist: Toronto 1890-1900, April 2, 2004.
Thomas Haig, The Conversant Community, fall 2001.
Maria Nengeh Mensah, L’anatomie du l’invisible: le corps femme et le sida,” spring, 2001 (Dr. Mensah now holds a Quebec governement Research Chair at the UQAM)
Sheryl Hamilton, Thinking Machines: a history of the representation of new technologies, fall, 2000 (Dr. Hamilton holds a CRC at Carleton)
Josephine Mills, Public Occupations: Theorizing Art and “the Public,” August, 1999.
Julianne Pidduck, Intimate Spaces and Flights of Fancy: Gendered Movement in Contemporary Costume Drama, November, 1997
Masters in Media Studies Programme, Thesis and Project Supervision
Current:
Amy McKinnon
Robyn Fadden
Jessica Antony
Graduated:
Heather Peters
Mélanie Hogan
Rachel Matlow, “Love, Angel, Appropriation, Baby: Gwen Stefani as Intertextual celebrity,” (April 2007).
Lesley Husbands, “Miracles and Monsters: Representations of Motherhood” (April 2007)
Jeny Nussey, “Tensions and Contradictions: The Dr. Phil Show,” (January, 2005)
Nikki Porter, “In Search of the Slayer: Audience negotiation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” (April 2004)
Susan Goodyear, “Schizophrenia as metaphor: madness and the cinematic asylum,” (April, 2004)
Jennifer Anisef, “The politics of craft,” (March 2004).
Anna Friz, “Pirate Jenny,” (April, 2003)
Linda Kay, “Representing the Real,” (April, 2001).
Chantal Francouer, “Journalism and Ethnography,” (May, 2001)
Sandra Dametto, “The State of the Union: an on-line documentary,” (April, 2001)
Katherine Liberovskaya, “Media Art,” (Fall, 2000)
Sheryl Shore, “Touching Bone,” (September, 1999)
Linnet Fawcett, “The Epistolary Pact: Letters to Ms.” (August, 1999)
Jacob Bakan, “Communication and Self Expression” (August, 1998)
Katarina Soukup, “Radio Bicyclette: Rozlach 68″ (September, 1998)
Luba Krekhovetsky, “Ukrainians on the Internet” (September, 1998)
Jennifer de Freitas, “Heritage Tourism as Secular Pilgrimmage,” (May 1998)
Dipti Gupta, “Working and Networking: Indian Women Make Documentary Films” (October, 1997)
Lisa Monk, “(April, 1997)
Susan Schutta, “Stop the Presses: Aboriginal Newspapers in Canada,” (February, 1997)
Iain Cook, “The Jazz of the Web,” (April 1996)
Justine Akman, “Considering the Context: Women in the Association of Progressive Communications.” (Sept. 1995)
Maureen Bradley,”Reframing the Montreal Massacre: A feminist interrogation,” (May, 1995)
Gordon Thompson, “The Ontology of Technology” (September, 1993)
Rhona Davies, “Talk, Television and Tannen” (May, 1993)
