Part II: Teaching Responsibilities
Courses Taught
OCAD University Courses
Undergraduate Courses
2024
VISD 2001 The History of Modern Design
VISD 3001 Architecture in Canada
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
VISD 3003 History of Furniture
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
2023
VISD 2001 The History of Modern Design
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
2022-23
VISD 2001 The History of Furniture
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
2021-22
VISD 3003 History of Furniture
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
VISD 3003 History of Furniture
HUMN 3011 Stuff:The Meaning of Things
2020-21
VISD 3003 History of Furniture
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
VISD 3003 History of Furniture
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
CRCP 3002 The Work of The Curator
2019
VISD 3003 History of Furniture
VISD 3005 History of Interior Design
CRCP 4004 Proseminar in Curatorial Practice: Cultural Agents
2018-19
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
CRCP 4001 Pro-seminar: Curators and Critics
VISD 3001 History of Interior Design, 1600-present
2016-17
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
2015-16
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
2014-15
HUMN 3011 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
2013-14
CADN 6C01 Writing and Professional Practices
HUMN 3B13 Stuff: The Meaning of Things
2012-13
HUMN 3B13 Stuff: Meaning of Things
2011-12
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
HUMN 3B13 Stuff: Material Culture and the Meaning of Things
VISD 3B32 History of Furniture
2010-11
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
SOSC 3B02 Material Culture and Consumer Society
HUMN 3B01 Reading Popular Culture
HUMN 3B92 Special Topic in the Humanities (Material Culture)
2009-10
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
SOSC 3B02 Material Culture and Consumer Society
VISC 2B22 History of Material Arts: Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe
HUMN 3B92 Special Topic in the Humanities (Material Culture)
VISC 3B32 History of Furniture
Graduate Courses
2018-19
VISD 6001 Living with Things
GGRA 6001 Issues in Critical Theory
2016-17
CRCP 6003 Issues in Criticism and Curatorial Practice (Legacies of the Postmodern Turn)
2015
VISD 6B04 Living with Things
2011-14
CRCP 6B05 Issues in Criticism and Curatorial Practice
2012-13
CADN 6C01 Writing and Professional Practices
2012-14
VISD 6B04 Living with Things
CRCP 6B07 Thesis Workshop
2011-13
IAMD 6B08 Issues in Critical Theory
Prior Record of Teaching:
York University / Ryerson University, Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture
2009
Core Issues in Communication and Culture / Ph. D. Seminar
Introduction to Cultural Studies
2008
Core Issues in Communication and Culture / Ph.D. Seminar
2007
Telos Vision: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Perspectives in Communication and Culture (Ph. D. seminar)
2006
Telos Vision: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
2009
The Material Cultures of North America, 1500-present
2008
The Material Cultures of North America, 1500-present
2007
The Material Cultures of North America, 1500-present
2007
The Material Cultures of North America, 1500-present
2006
The Material Cultures of North America, 1500-present
Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
2009
Introduction to Historic Preservations: Theory and Practice
Problems in Material and Design Part II (4th year seminar)
2008
Problems in Material and Design Part I (4th year seminar)
2007
Problems in Material and Design Part II (4th year seminar)
2006
Problems in Material and Design Culture Part I (4th year seminar)
2005
The Art Histories of the Western World, Part II (1650-2005)
Design Dynamics and Spatial Issues in Architecture, Interiors and Design
The Problems of Design: a Philosophical and Ideological Inquiry
2003-04
The Art Histories of the Western World, Parts I and II
World Art in Cross Cultural Perspective
Persons, Things and Time: Critical Issues in Material Culture and Design History
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2007
Stuff: things, people and places (or selected topics in material culture) (graduate elective)
2005
Stuff: things, people and places (or selected topics in material culture) (graduate elective)
Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
2002-03
The Material Histories of North America, Part II, 1851-present
Things and Stuff: Method and Meaning in Material History
The American Revolution and the Making of the Constitution
“The Trespassed Gaze”: Culture and Identity in First Nations Cultural Production (graduate course)
The Material Histories of North America, Part II, 1851-present
Things and Stuff: Method and Meaning in Material History
The History of the United States, 1500-1877
The Material Histories of North America, Part i 1500-1850
“An Independent Colony?”: Cultural Production, Identity and the Post-Colonial
Condition in Canada 1900-2000 (graduate course)
2001-02
The History of the United States, 1500-1877
Things and Stuff: Methods and Meaning in Material Culture
The Material Cultures of North America, Part II, 1851-present
British North America, 1760-1860
The Contested Caribbean: A Study in Imperial Rivalry, 1750-1850 (directed reading)
Summer 2001
Greece In the Western Mind: or The Hellenic Origins of Western Identity
2000-01
British Imperialism in North America, 1760-1860
The Imperial Crisis, the American Revolution and Making of the Constitution
The Material Cultures of North America, Part I, 1500-1850
The Histories of Genders and Sexualities in Britain and North America, 1750-present
The History of the United States, 1600-1877
The Imperial Crisis, the American Revolution and the Making of the Constitution
Things: The Theory and Practice of Material History
Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Museums and Identity in Western Society, 1500-1960
1999-2000
The Imperial Thread: British North American History, 1760-1860
The Experience of Loyalty, 1760-1820
1998
The History of the United States, 1600-1877
The Theories and Practices of Material History
The History of Gender and Sexuality in Britain and North America, 1750-present
1997-98
The History of the United States, 1600-1877
The American Revolution and the Making of the United States Constitution
The History of British North America, 1750-1850
Loyalism and The Loyalists, 1760-1820
Freshman Seminar Program, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
1999
Critical Theory and Narrative Culture: the Historical Writings of The American Revolution
1997
Accounts of the American Revolution: A Critical Examination of Narratives and Texts
Department of History and Literature, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
1993-97
Sophomore Tutorial Instructor: Introduction to Historical Method
Junior Tutorial Instructor: The American Garden in Text: Images of the Pastoral and the Wild, From Roanoke to Love Canal
Senior Thesis Advisor
Junior Tutorial Instructor: Texts, Fictions and the Formation of American Society
Department of History and Core Curriculum Program, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
1986-1992
Head Teaching Fellow: “The British Empire,” Professors John Clive and Simon Schama
Teaching Fellow: “The Making of Modern India,” Professor David Washbrook
Teaching Fellow: “The Revolutionary Transformation of America,” Professor Bernard Bailyn
Teaching Fellow: “The Making of Colonial America,” Professor Drew McCoy
Junior Tutorial Instructor: Power and Marginality in American Experience
Graduate Student Supervision
Students Supervised, OCAD University
MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design / Principal Advisor
2024
Jiyeon Hong, Anatomy of the Material Self: An Investigation of Selfhood and the Material Lifeworld.
2022
Natasha Vasiljevic, When Tito Went on Vacation (re-imagining nostalgia).
2019
Jeffrey Garcia, HWILDSON: An Experimental Preservation Practice Visualizing Data as Code, Object, and Architecture.
2017
Qendrim Hoti, Supertoys Last All Summer Long.
2015
Phillip Cote, The Tecumseh Project.
2014
Nicholas Sweetman, Digital Adaptations: Possibility in Representation Beyond the Frame.
2013
Rebecca Baird, ’Why Don’t You Just Drop This Indian Stuff?’: The Living Legacy of Indigenous Selfhood.
2012
Julian Higuerey Nunez, The Promise of Making.
2011
Lisa Visser, Animals in the Room.
MA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design / Secondary Advisor
2020
Jesse Holmes, Sentimental Debris
2015
Jason King, The Ascetic’s Cave
2011
Joseph Clement, Collecting Tasker
2010
Sarah Beck, Currency.
MFA Criticism and Curatorial Practice / Principal Advisor
2016
Jielu Zhang, Wearable or Not?: Experiencing Contemporary Jewelry.
2015
Rui Mateus Amaral, The Author-Curator as Auto-ethnographer.
2014
Simone Rojas-Pick, Street Museum Without Walls: a curatorial mediation on the convergence of street art and digital culture.
2013
Stefan Orri Hancherow, Brand New Aura.
MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice / Secondary Advisor
2021
Alexander Rondeau, Mud, Hay, Plywood, Pheasants: Towards a Rurally Embodied Queer Curatorial Practice.
2013
Penelope Smart, Time to Start Over.
MA in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories / Principal Advisor
2017
Sophie Ratcliffe, Luxury, Decoration and Contemporary Design.
2015
Brittany Higgens, “Jeff Koons and the Hyperreal: A Match ‘Made in Heaven’.
2014
Terry Jenkins Bricel, A Gallery of Culture in Our Times: Julia Peyton-Jones and the Serpentine Pavilions.
2013
Jessica Li, Crafting Modern China: The Revival of Yixing Pottery.
MA in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories / Secondary Advisor
2021
Lucia Wallace, Drop my heart like an urn; melt my skin like it’s clay: Dichotomies of Destruction and Creation, the Material and the Intangible.
2014
Behnaz Djabarouti, Cultural Displacement: Gender and the design of identity of the Iranian Diaspora, from Iran to Toronto - 1979 to 2013.
2015
William Fraser, Allison Schulnik’s Hobo Clown and the Grotesque Imagination.
2014
Erik Munoz, The Crucifixion in the Work of Joel-Peter Witkin.
MDes in Digital Futures / Secondary Advisor
2020
Peiheng Zhao, Mixed reality technology for representing and facilitating intercultural dialogue in museums.
Directed Reading Courses / Graduate Studies
2023
Jiyeon Hong, IAMD MA candidate
2021
Natasha Vasiljevic, MFA candidate, IAMD
Alexander Rondeau, MFA candidate, CRCP
2019
Jessie Holmes, MFA candidate, IAMD
2017
Qendrim Hoti, MFA candidate, IAMD
2013
Faraz Anoushah Pour, MFA candidate, IAMD
Ryan Ferko, MFA candidate, IAMD
Marjan Verstappen, MFA candidate, IAMD
Martha Griffith, MFA candidate, IAMD
2012
Jennifer Simaitis, MFA candidate CRCP
2011
Rita Camacho, MFA candidate, IAMD
Other Student Supervision
Graduate supervisions: Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON
Program in Communication and Culture / Doctoral Supervisory Committee
2015
Iona Pelovska, Poetry and Pornography: Means and Meanings of the Moving Image. Supervisor: Professor Caitlin Fisher, Member: Professor Michael Zyrd.
2013
Aysegul Koc, Technological Displacement: The Coat Check Interactive Augmented Reality Installation in Perspective, Supervisor: Professor Caitlin
Fisher Member: Professor Michael Zyrd.
Eva Nessleroth Wozybun, Dematerializing Digital Objects: Denial, Decay, Detritus and Other Matters of Fact. Supervisor: Professor Janine
Marchessault, Member: Professor Steven Bailey.
Program in Communication and Culture / MA Supervisor
2007
Sarah Drummond, Representations of Female Obesity in Contemporary Cinema.
2006
Truc Nguyen, Beyond Commerce: The Fashion Magazine as Art and Theory.
Program in Communication and Culture / MA Supervisory Committee
2009
Catherine Ishino, Does Modernizing Mean Westernizing: Western Views of New China’s Graphic Design, 1998-2008. Supervisor: Professor Wendy Wong.
Graduate supervisions: York University, Toronto, ON
Program in Communication and Culture / Doctoral Committee Membership
2019
Elise Hodson, Global Design Processes and Products: The Production-Circulation-Consumption of Everyday Consumer Goods. Supervisor: Professor Jan Hadlaw, Member: Professor Colin Mooers.
2016
Gordon Thompson (ABD) The Pretensions of Craft: Cultural Form and Social Status. Supervisor: Professor Alan Blum, Member: Professor Kevin Dowler.
2015
Lynn Chalmers, The Subtle Revolution – Women and change in office Environments 1960-1990. Supervisor: Professor Janine Marchessault, Member: Professor George Kapelos.
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes (ABD) The Electric image, New Live Media. Supervisor: Professor Caitlin Fisher, Member: Professor Michael Zyrd.
2014
Sabine Lebel, Materiality, Form, and Container Technologies: Personal Computers and the Environment. Supervisor: Professor Jody Berland, Member: Professor Fitzpatrick.
2013
Trevor Cunnington, Schadenfreude, Villainy and Empathy: The Ideological Life of Media Representations of ‘White Trash’. Supervisor: Professor John McCullough, Member: Professor Scott Forsyth.
2010
Susan Asheley, Museum Renaissance? Revisioning ‘publicness’ at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Supervisor: Professor Joy Constaedt, Member: Professor Colin Mooers.
Program in Communication and Culture / MA Supervisory Committee
2010
Olukayode Ayankojo, Diasporic Community, Cultural Identity and the Internet: A Case Study of Nigerians in Toronto. Supervisor: Professor Alan Blum.
Program in Interdisciplinary Studies / MA Supervisory Committee
2013
Tim McCormack, The Digital Romantic Landscape: From the Sublime to the Cool. Supervisor: Professor David Armstrong, Member: Professor Jen Jenson.
Graduate supervisions: M.Arch Program, Daniel’s Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2012
Matt Morgan, THE OBSERVER & THE SPECTACLE: The Cameron Voir, “Design Archive. Supervisor: Professor An Te Liu, Member: Professor George Baird.
Supervisory Committees
2015-17
Graduate Studies Curriculum Committee
Graduate Supervision Working Group (Chair)
2014-17
Onsite Gallery Advisory Programming Sub-Committee
2013-15
Faculty Colleague, Council of Ontario Universities
2011-13
Graduate Program Director, Criticism and Curatorial Practice Program
2011-13
Graduate Program Director, Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories
2010-19
Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design Graduate Program Committee
2010-18
Contemporary Art, Media and Design Graduate Program Committee
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Program Committee
Criticism and Curatorial Practice (CCP) Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Committee
Visual Culture Studies (VCS) Undergraduate Program Committee
2010-17
Senate Graduate Studies Committee
Invited Guest Teaching
Jan - Feb 2018 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Design, Bangalore, India
Feb - Aug 2018 Research Fellow, University College, University of London, London, UK