Faculty Listing
Sarah Abbott
Film Department
Associate Professor
Office: ED 239.8
E-mail: sarah.abbott@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4437
Website: http://www.sarahabbott.ca
Research interests
Environment, climate crisis; human and nonhuman knowing and rights; trees; ethics; experiences of being; ethnographic inquiry; community engagement; Indigenous methodologies, cultures, and knowledge systems; decolonization.
Taiwo Afolabi
Theatre Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 180
E-mail: taiwo.afolabi@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5519
Website: www.taiwoafolabi.com
Research interests
Applied theatre, community engagement, theatre and policing, research ethics, arts leadership, and African cinema.
Kathryn Bracht
Theatre Department, Department Head
Associate Professor
Office: RC 274
E-mail: kathryn.bracht@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5590
Research interests
Physical theatre, ethnographic theatre, solo performance, devising, new play development, acting and directing.
Ian Campbell
Film Department
Lab Instructor
Office: ED 239.3
E-mail: ian.campbell@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5313
Research interests
Digital Filmmaking and Visual Effects; VJ culture and Live Improvised Visuals; Kinetic Sculpture and 3D printing.
Ruth Chambers
Visual Arts Department, Graduate Program Representative
Professor
Office: RC 149
E-mail: ruth.chambers@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5575
Research interests
Ceramics, Installation, Contemporary Craft Theory
David Dick
Interim Dean
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 269
E-mail: MAP.Dean@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5510
Research interests
Jazz, brass performance practice, and music theory.
Katherine Dowling
Music Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 256.1
E-mail: katherine.dowling@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5502
Research interests
Performance, collaborative piano, chamber music, piano literature, piano pedagogy
Sherry Farrell-Racette
Visual Arts Department - On sabbatical January 1st to June 30th, 2022
Associate Professor
Office: RC 250
E-mail: Sherry.Farrell-Racette@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5515
Fax: 306-585-5526
Research interests
First Nations and Métis history and art history, Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy, contemporary Indigenous art, photography, film, collections-based research in museums and curatorial practices, First Nations and Métis traditional arts, issues of representation and self-representation, feminist, Indigenous and creative research methodologies.
Holly Fay
Visual Arts Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 246
E-mail: holly.fay@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5591
Website: https://www.hollyfay.com
Research interests
Painting and Drawing techniques and methodologies, biotic and abiotic ecological systems, correlations and interconnectedness of natural phenomenon, nonhuman agency, phenomenology, environment, representations of the nature world in two-dimensional art practices.
Lindsey French
Visual Arts Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 154
E-mail: lindsey.french@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5554
Website: https://lindseyfrench.com/
Research interests
Landscape, environment, ecology; multisensory and multi-species signaling and perception; plant-being and plant signaling; communications technologies; receptivity and reception technologies; radio and airborne communication media; atmosphere and climate; olfactory art; acoustic ecology; media studies.
Area(s) of Specialization Creative Technologies, Visual Arts
David Garneau
Visual Arts Department - Department Head
Professor
Office: RC 245
E-mail: david.garneau@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5615
Research interests
I am interested in all forms of contemporary art; creative expressions of contemporary Indigenous identities; Indigenous museum displays, and public art.
Brent Ghiglione
Acting Department Head, Music Department
Associate Professor, Director of Bands
Office: RC 256.4
E-mail: brent.ghiglione@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5542
Research interests
Wind Band repertoire, Conducting, Trumpet performance practices.
Leanne Groeneveld
Theatre - Campion
Assistant Professor
Office: CM 313
E-mail: Leanne.Groeneveld@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1222
Website: http://campioncollege.ca/contact-us/faculty-listing/dr-leanne-groeneveld
Research interests
Late medieval theatre production; late medieval and early modern religious drama; medieval aesthetics; medieval Passion drama; late medieval and early modern representations of Christ's body; Canadian, American, and UK representations of/responses to the Oberammergau Passion Play (1850-1950); modern Passion drama.
William Hales
Theatre Department
Instructor
Office: RC 180.1
E-mail: william.hales@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5568
Research interests
Stage Management and Technical Direction, Lighting Design, Computer Control Systems for Technical Theatre, Designing New Theatre Spaces
Shannon Holmes
Theatre Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 272
E-mail: shannon.holmes@uregina.ca
Phone: (306)337-2400
Research interests
Voice, Speech, Singing, Extended Vocal Techniques, Acting, Devised-Theatre, Cross-disciplinary Processes, Interdisciplinary Studies, Embodiment, Somatics, Autoethnography
Dr. Risa Horowitz
Visual Arts Department
Associate Professor
Office: RC 247.2/RC 047
E-mail: risa.horowitz@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5641
Website: http://www.risahorowitz.com
Research interests
Photo and lens-based media; conceptual, performance, and durational practices; time and its representation; art & science; critical landscape theories; creative writing; the relationships between expert-amateur, hobby-work, leisure-productivity.
Christopher MacRae
Music Department
Lecturer
Office: RC 256.12
E-mail: chris.macrae@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5536
Pronoun(s): he, his
Website: www.ChrisMacRaeVoiceStudio.com
Current classes
Applied Voice, Opera Workshop
Research interests
Vocal Technique, Portrayal of National Identity in Art Song, Acting Techniques for young singers
Charity Marsh
Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance (Creative Technologies)
Associate Professor
Office: RC 033
E-mail: charity.marsh@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2623
Research interests
Hip Hop Cultures; Popular Music in Canada; DJ Cultures; Electronic Dance Music Cultures; Interactive Media and Performance; Technology and Gender in Popular Music; Media Arts; Arts-Based Community Health; Community Radio
Accreditations:
Ph.D., (Popular Music Studies/Ethnomusicology), York University, Toronto, Ontario, 2005.
“Raving Cyborgs, Queering Practices, and Discourses of Freedom: The Search for Meaning in Rave Culture”
Master of Arts, (Women and Gender Studies), York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1999.
“Disrupting Dichotomies in Electronica: Björk’s Fusion of Nature’s Goddess and Technology’s Cyborg”
Philippe Mather
Film - Campion
Associate Professor
Office: CM 502
E-mail: Philippe.Mather@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1229
Research interests
Orientalism in Film, Film Music, Theories of Genre and Authorship, Stanley Kubrick, Science-Fiction.
Karla McManus
Visual Arts Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 232
E-mail: karla.mcmanus@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2227
Website: https://www.karlamcmanus.com
Research interests
Contemporary art and the environment, the history and theory of photography, Canadian art history, settler-colonial art history, eco-critical art history, eco-media studies, environmental history, animal studies, documentary media.
Melissa Morgan
Music Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 256.9
E-mail: melissa.morgan@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5538
Website: www.classicmel.ca
Research interests
Choral Conducting, Prairie Choral Art Music, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Diction, Choral Gesture, Movement and Choral Singing
Area of Specialization: Choral Conducting
Wes Pearce
Theatre Department
Professor
Office: RC 270
E-mail: wes.pearce@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5571
Research interests
Scenography and domestic spaces in Sharon Pollock’s plays; the intersections of scenography, technology and composition in musicals; Shakespeare festivals and the public good; various aspects of Come From Away
Alain Perron
Music Department
Associate Professor
Office: RC 256.3
E-mail: alain.perron@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5201
Research interests
Music composition (instrumental/vocal); Orchestration and Instrumentation; Electronic and Electroacoustic music; Conducting (symphonic orchestra/new music ensembles); Performance (oboe/English horn); Musical analysis 20th-21st century
Sheila Petty
Film Department
Professor
Office: ED239.12
E-mail: sheila.petty@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4188
Christine Ramsay
Film Department
Associate Dean, Graduate & Research
Office: ED 239.5
E-mail: christine.ramsay@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4210
Research interests
Canadian and Saskatchewan cinemas; masculinities in contemporary cultures; curatorial studies in expanded cinema; culture of small cities; philosophies of identity.
Barbara Reul
Music - Luther
Professor
Office: LC 204
E-mail: barbara.reul@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5019
Research interests
Early music, especially early 18th-century German court music; J. F. Fasch and his contemporaries; archival research; women and music; organ music.
Michael Rollo
Film Department, Department Head
Associate Professor
Office: ED 243.1
E-mail: mike.rollo@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4569/4948
Website: http://mrollo.com
Research interests
Documentary and material cinema; darkroom photography; film curation; expanded cinema; film collectives; artist-run labs.
September Russell
Music Department
Lecturer
Office: RC 256.2
E-mail: september.russell@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5540
Current classes
Music Theory and Analysis, Music History
Gerald Saul
Film Department
Professor
Office: ED 239.11
E-mail: gerald.saul@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4619
Website: http://www.geraldsaul.com
Research interests
Experimental film, hand-processed and cameraless filmmaking, animation, alternative narrative and storytelling, and pinhole photography.
Rae Staseson
Professor (on Administrative leave)
Office: RC 269
E-mail: Rae.Staseson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5510
Fax: 306-585-5544
Brian Stockton
Film Department
Associate Professor
Office: ED 239.2
E-mail: brian.stockton@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4785
Christina Stojanova
Film Department
Professor
Office: ED 239.7
E-mail: christina.stojanova@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5690
Research interests
Political, social, and aesthetic aspects of (post) communist cinemas, cinema of Québec, interwar German cinema; Narrative, hybridity and Intermediality in the digital age; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Freudian, Lacanian, and (Neo) Jungian analytical psychology.
Larissa Tiggelers
Visual Arts Department
Assistant Professor
Office: RC 244
E-mail: larissa.tiggelers@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5529
Website: http://www.larissatiggelers.com
Research interests
Area(s) of Specialization: professional practices, abstract painting and drawing, feminist methodologies, advanced colour theory
Tiggelers’ research is primarily focused in abstract painting and drawing, with occasional explorations in installation and sculpture. She teaches in the painting and drawing area where she embraces process-driven methodologies and material exploration alongside conceptual development.
Robert Truszkowski
Visual Arts Department - On sabbatical January 1st to June 30th, 2022
Professor
Office: RC 035.3
E-mail: robert.truszkowski@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5574
Website: Instagram: @professortruszkowski
Research interests
(Conceptual) Popular culture; text, language, and communication; rap music; religion (Technical) Expanded colour and resolution possibilities in studio Printmaking (particularly in Ultra-violet cured (UV) silkscreen); digital print applications; lower and non-toxic approaches to studio printmaking.
Sean Whalley
Associate Dean, Undergraduate
Visual Arts Department, Assistant Professor
Office: RC 158
E-mail: sean.whalley@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5581
Mark Wihak
Film Department
Associate Professor
Office: ED 239.6
E-mail: mark.wihak@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2233
Research interests
Alternative approaches to fiction filmmaking; documentary filmmaking; forms of storytelling.