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Associate Professor and Chair of Religion and Culture
Areas of Expertise: African Diaspora;
African Caribbean religion;
Religion and immigration;
African Canadian;
Religion and popular culture;
Caribbean religion and culture;
African-Canadians
Areas of Expertise: Evangelical popular fiction;
Evangelical popular culture;
Evangelical apocalyptic literature
Biography: I grew up on a small farm (an apiary) in the Slate River Valley, outside of Thunder Bay. I did my undergraduate work at WLU, though it took a long time because I took some years off to live in Central Europe after the fall of the communist…
Areas of Expertise: Art music of the twentieth century;
1920s-40s German music;
Popular music;
Cross-cultural influences in high art music;
Medievalism in contemporary music and popular culture;
Post-colonialism and music;
feminism and music;
Biography: Dr. Kirsten Yri received her MA and PhD in musicology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook after completing a BMus in Music History and Literature at University of Victoria, and an ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of…
Areas of Expertise: Health and Risk Communication;
Cultural Studies of Science and Medicine;
Influenza in the media, historically and present;
Popular Culture;
Media Monintoring and Analysis;
Queer media studies;
Biography: Dr. Penelope Ironstone is an interdisciplinary scholar with degrees in Directed Interdisciplinary Studies (B.A. Hons., Carleton University, 1991), Comparative Literary Studies (M.A., Carleton University, 1993), and Social & Political Thought (Ph.D.,…
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