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Creative Arts, University of Windsor. He was Founding Director (2010–2016) and is now Co-
Director of the IN/TERMINUS Creative Research Collective. He has held a Visiting Fellowship at
the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (University of London, 2015), a Humanities Research
Group Fellowship (University of Windsor, 2016–2017), and a McLuhan Centenary Fellowship
(iSchool, University of Toronto, 2016–2018). Recent SSHRC-funded projects have investigated
the interdisciplinary history of Canadian media studies. He co-edited Cartographies of Place:
Navigating the Urban (MQUP 2014), an interdisciplinary collection that situates different historical
and methodological currents in urban media studies. His publications engage with issues in
urban media cultures, history of media and media studies, borderlands studies, performance,
language, sound, and translation.
Janine Marchessault is a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at York University and Canada
Research Chair in Art and Globalization (2003–2013). Her most recent publications include Ecstatic
Worlds: Media, Utopias, Ecologies (MIT Press, 2017), Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (MQUP 2014)
and Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (MQUP 2014). A public art curator of numerous site
specific exhibitions in Toronto, she is a past president of the Film Studies Association of Canada,
She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema. Building on her book
McLuhan, Cosmic Media (Sage 2005), her current projects concern the afterlife of media.