Dr. Charity Marsh
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Dr. Charity Marsh (she/her) is a settler community-engaged researcher, multidisciplinary artist, collaborator, and scholar living in Treaty 4. She is Professor and Head of the Department of Creative Technologies and Design in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, at the University of Regina (Treaty 4 and 6), in Saskatchewan Canada.
A former Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Popular Music, Dr. Marsh is recognized for her research on hip hop and DJ cultures in Canada, gender and popular music, interactive media and performance, digital storytelling and community radio, and the impacts of community arts-based initiatives on expanding possibilities for children, women, non-binary and gender-expansive people within the music industries.
Currently, Dr. Marsh’s research is focused on her SSHRC Insight project, “Feminist Activism, Community Building, and Social Justice: Considering the Interventions and Impacts of Girls Rock Camps in Canada,” a comprehensive comparative analysis of the camps and how they are impacting local music scenes. Dr. Marsh is also part of the Hearing Maternity Research Network, and leading the section on Community and Music in the Everyday for the handbook project entitled, Hearing Maternity: Critical Intersections in Music and Motherhood Studies.
In 2026 Dr. Marsh began leading the development of the GENerate Collaboratory, a multi-lab space focused on research and the development of technologies related to sound and audio cultures, practices, performance, politics, and environments. This CFI-funded project will centre the sound making and training of underrepresented communities, including women, girls, gender-diverse people, Black and Indigenous people, people of colour, and 2SLGBTQIAP+ communities, challenging ongoing systemic inequities in the sound, audio, recording and video gaming cultures and industries.
Dr Marsh is director of the Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs, which she founded in 2007 during her tenure as a CRC. Within the IMP Labs’ programming, Marsh produces and facilitates workshops on interactive audio and digital technologies; curates the Flatland Scratch Seminar and Workshop Series; engages in collaborative hip hop and interactive media projects with various partners; hosts the annual AMPLIFY youth and adult camps and programs; and has collaborated to create sustainable supports for remote communities focusing on hip hop and arts programming.
Dr Marsh is co-editor of We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel, co-editor of the forthcoming collection, We Can Dance If We Want To: Canadian DJ Culture Turns Up, producer of the podcast series, Let’s Talk Research, and director of the award-winning documentary I’m Gonna Play Loud: Girls Rock Regina and the Ripple Effect.