Faculty and Staff Listing | Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina

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

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.

Rebecca Caines

Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance (Creative Technologies)
Associate Professor

Office: RC 154
E-mail: rebecca.caines@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5520

Research interests
Performance studies, creative technologies, community-based practices, new media, sound art, improvisation, site-specific art, cultural studies, augmentation.

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

Music Department, Department Head
Assistant Professor

Office: RC 256.8
E-mail: david.dick@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5546

Research interests
Jazz, brass performance practice, and music theory.

Katherine Dowling

Music Department
Lecturer

Office: RC 256.1
E-mail: katherine.dowling@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5502

Sherry Farrell-Racette

Visual Arts Department
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

Research interests

Painting and Drawing techniques and methodologies, installation, ecology and natural systems,

anthropocentric representation of nature in the tradition of Western landscape art, phenomenology, conceptual drawing.

David Garneau

Visual Arts Department
Professor

Office: RC 245
E-mail: david.garneau@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5615

Research interests

Painting, contemporary Aboriginal art (Canada and Australia); critical art writing, curation.

Brent Ghiglione

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
Lighting Design, Set Design and Video Projection Design, Theatre Technology (past and present), Theatre Ergonomics, and Theatre Creation for Close Audiences

Shannon Holmes

Theatre Department
Assistant Professor

E-mail: shannon.holmes@uregina.ca

Risa Horowitz

Visual Arts Department, Department Head
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 time-based media; conceptual, and durational practices; practice-based research.

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
Indigenous Hip Hop Cultures; Popular Music in Canada; Electronic Dance Music Cultures; Interactive Media and Performance; Technology and Gender; Arts and Athleticism; Arts-Based Community Health

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 (On Leave)
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 256.2
E-mail: melissa.morgan@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5538

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, Dramaturgy and Composition in Musical Theatre; Shakespeare Festivals and Tourism; Queer Gothic and the plays of Michel Marc Bouchard

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: ED239.9
E-mail: sheila.petty@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4188
Website: http://uregina.ca/~pettyss/

Helen Pridmore

Music Department
Associate Professor

Office: RC 256.9
E-mail: helen.pridmore@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5540
Website: http://www.helenpridmore.ca

Research interests
Vocal Performance; New Scored Music and Experimental Music, especially by Canadian composers;Improvisation; Extended Vocal Techniques; Interdisciplinary Studies and Projects

Christine Ramsay

Associate Dean, Graduate & Research
Film Department, Professor

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.

Randal Rogers

Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance (Creative Technologies)
Associate Professor

Office: RC 273
E-mail: randal.rogers@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4746

Research interests
Research interests: visual cultures of forensics; spies and sexualities; biopolitics; flight/crash/simulation; universal expositions

Michael Rollo

Film Department
Assistant Professor

Office: ED 239.2
E-mail: mike.rollo@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4569
Website: http://mrollo.com

Research interests
Documentary and experimental cinema; darkroom photography; film cura-tion; expanded cinema; film collectives; artist-run labs.

September Russell

Music Department
Lecturer

E-mail: september.russell@uregina.ca

Gerald Saul

Film Department, Department Head
Associate Professor

Office: ED 243.1
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

Dean
Professor

Office: RC269.1
E-mail: MAP.Dean@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5510
Fax: 306-585-5544

Brian Stockton

Film Department
Assistant Professor

Office: ED 239.10
E-mail: brian.stockton@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4785

Christina Stojanova

Film Department
Associate 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

E-mail: larissa.tiggelers@uregina.ca

Robert Truszkowski

Visual Arts Department
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.

Jan Bell

Faculty Administrator

Office: RC 269.2
E-mail: jan.bell@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5583

Joe Caron

Technician
Film Department

Office: ED 153
E-mail: joe.caron@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4857

Additional information
Joe has worked professionally in the industry for over 23 years for companies such as CBC, CTV National News, TSN, Discovery Channel and numerous production houses. He has taught multifarious film production classes with an emphasis on cinematography and digital audio. He enjoys sharing his knowledge with his colleagues and students.

Morley Crowle

University Theatres Coordinator
Theatre Operations Unit

Office: RC 172
E-mail: morley.crowle@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5648

Elizabeth Dow

Administrative Assistant
Student Program Centre

Office: RC 267.1
Phone: 306-585-5570

Erik Fortune

Storekeeper
Media, Art, and Performance Art Store

Office: RC 022
E-mail: erik.fortune@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2367

Floyd Gadd

Piano Technician
Music Department

Office: RC 256.10
E-mail: floyd.gadd@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5586

Mike Garcia

Technician
Film Department

Office: ED 154
E-mail: mike.garcia@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5061

Additional information

Mike is an IT professional for over 15 years and has worked with companies such as APPLE Service Centre in Singapore and DELL in the Philippines. He has worked with numerous IT Infrastructures, AV and cloud-based projects during his 5 year employment with Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore.

On weekends, he teaches Computer and Technology courses at the Centre for Continuing Education – University of Regina. He enjoys sharing his knowledge and likes to initiate ways to improve productivity
through technology.