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Areas of Expertise: Nanoparticles: synthesis and optical properties;
Metal Nanoparticles: gold and silver, shape and size selection
Colloidal particles: synthesis, stability, monodispersity;
Self-assembly: polymer, colloids;
Nanocomposites: core-shell particles, metallodielectrics
Polymers: liquid crystals, thin films, rheology, tribology
Biography: I joined Chemistry Department in July of 2004 as a Materials Chemist. I received my Master degree working with polymer liquid crystals under the supervision of Prof. Valery P. Shibaev at Moscow State University. During my Ph.D., I studied polymer and…
Areas of Expertise: Media history (film, radio, television);
The Titanic disaster;
Orson Welles;
Media representation of island survivor stories: Robinson Crusoe to Lost
Areas of Expertise: Canadian film and television industries;
Documentary film and television;
Cultural policy;
Canadian, British and American popular culture
Biography: My teaching and research interests mostly surround popular visual media with a special interest in film and television studies. I also study and/or teach cultural policy, national popular cultures, popular music studies and media history. Recent or…
Areas of Expertise: Film, Media, and Cultural Theory;
Subjectivity and Identity;
Marxist cultural theory;
Psychoanalysis;
Popular Culture and Consumer Society;
Postmodernism and Visual Culture;and,
Post-Structuralism.
Biography: Matthew Flisfeder is a film, media, and cultural theorist, and the author of The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). His research and teaching interests include Western Marxism and Critical Theory,…
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