Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

This group comprises research and experimental development in arts (including arts and history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design.

Parent Category

Humanities and the arts

Sub-Categories

Art history and theory

Architecture

Design practice and management

Creative writing

Music

Performing arts

Visual arts and media arts

Curatorial and related studies

Other Arts

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Graduate Degree Programs in Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition (DMA)

The D.M.A. program is designed for composers who have already reached a high level of proficiency and artistry in their fields and who may wish to teach at the university level. This program offers an opportunity to bring creative and performance achievement to a high level while enriching...

Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Instrument (DMA)

The D.M.A. program is designed for performers who have already reached a high level of proficiency and artistry in their fields and who may wish to teach at the university level. This program offers an opportunity to bring creative and performance achievement to a high level while enriching...

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

The DMA program is designed for performers who have already reached a high level of proficiency and artistry in their fields and who may wish to teach at the university level. This program offers an opportunity to bring creative and performance achievement to a high level while enriching individual...

Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice (DMA)

Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD)

Students in the PhD in Art History program are encouraged to situate art in its historical context, to analyze its impact on the world around us, and to develop theoretical frameworks that contribute to critical thinking and engage with debates in the field.��The program involves coursework, two...

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

The program can accommodate interests in ethnomusicology’s wide range of geographic areas and intellectual issues. We strongly encourage performance, close interaction with related disciplines (anthropology, area studies, sociology, linguistics, etc.), as well as border crossing within music (...

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Musicology (PhD)

The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in musicology at the �� School of Music offer students advanced training leading to professional careers in teaching and scholarly research. Graduate students enjoy a program that balances sound historical methods with critical interpretation, and forges...

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Theory (PhD)

Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. Study of theory, then, informs all aspects of musical learning at ��. Our faculty include internationally known researchers who contribute to theories of rhythm and meter, music...

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

The Ph.D. program offers students the opportunity to pursue theatre studies through coursework, comprehensive examination preparations and a doctoral dissertation project. ��Students are expected to give primary attention to an area of expertise of their choice while training in the broader...

Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture (MASA)

The Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture (MASA) is a post-professional research degree offered in a two-year curriculum. Students work in independent design or research-based studies in collaboration with faculty members engaged in certain research themes. This immersive program is for those...

Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture (MASLA)

The Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture (MASLA) is a post-professional research degree offered in a two-year��curriculum.��Students work in independent research-based studies in collaboration with faculty members engaged in certain��research themes. This immersive program is for those...

Master of Architecture (MARCH)

The Master of Architecture (MArch) graduate degree program offers an accredited��three-year��curriculum. This professional course of study is highly demanding with a large proportion of the curriculum being required coursework. Design studios are integrated with courses in architecture history and...

Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture (MARCLA)

The dual degree option is a four-year program to pursue the Master of Architecture and the Master of Landscape Architecture at the same time. The dual degree is certified with both the Canadian Architectural Certification Board and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. The dual degree...

Master of Arts in Art History (Critical Curatorial Studies) (MA)

Critical and Curatorial Studies (CCST) is an emerging field of scholarship and training that looks directly at the roles and responsibilities of curators and critics as mediators between objects, institutions, experiences, individuals and groups. While this involves investigating and negotiating a...

Master of Arts in Art History (MA)

The MA in Art History is designed to instruct students in methods to research and present scholarly materials, while providing grounding in a broadly based and methodologically diverse art history. The program offers advanced study of art history in areas of Asian art, European and North American...

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (MA)

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Musicology (MA)

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Theory (MA)

Master of Arts in Theatre (MA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Design/Production, Costume stream and Lighting stream are pausing for one year and there will be no in-take into Fall 2023.�� Applications for Fall 2024 will open in late September 2023. The two-year M.A. program offers students the opportunity to...

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)

Creative Writers are at the heart of our cultural industries. Poets, novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, graphic novelists, magazine writers: they entertain, inform and inspire. For more than 50 years, ��’s Creative Writing program has been producing writers who’ve shaped Canadian and...

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatre (MFA)

We are Canada's oldest and most respected MFA Program in Creative Writing. Offering an unprecedented 11 genres for potential study, students work in a learner-centered, workshop-driven program which offers an exciting breadth of choices, award-winning faculty and a setting in one of the world's...

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Distance Education (MFA)

Creative Writers are at the heart of our cultural industries. Poets, novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, graphic novelists, magazine writers: they entertain, inform and inspire. For more than 15��years, ��'s Creative Writing program has been educating writers through distance education in a...

Master of Fine Arts in Film Production and Creative Writing (MFA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Film Production and Creative Writing are accepted on a biennial basis.�� Applications for Fall 2026 will open in late September 2025. Film Production is a major component of Vancouver’s economy, as well as in cities across the globe. �� has an over...

Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (MFA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Design/Production, Costume stream and Lighting stream are pausing for one year and there will be no in-take into Fall 2024.�� Applications for Fall 2025 will open in late September 2024. M.F.A. in Theatre in Design/Production The Master of Fine Arts...

Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art (MFA)

The MFA program is dedicated to helping students understand both the making and theorizing of art against the background of the diverse intellectual environment of a major university, and within the context of local and international art communities. The MFA degree is also the standard qualifying...

Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) graduate degree program offers an accredited��three-year��curriculum. This professional course of study is highly demanding with a large proportion of the curriculum being required coursework. Design studios are integrated with courses in landscape history...

Master of Museum Education (MMEd)

The term museum encompasses a broad range of organisations with a focus on learning in settings outside the traditional classroom.�� Museums include cultural centres, science centres, historic sites, parks, planetaria, art museums and art galleries.�� Contemporary museum education establishes museums...

Master of Music in Composition (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in composition is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician...

Master of Music in Conducting (Emphasis Choral Conducting) (MMUS)

The �� School of Music offers excellent training for graduate assistant conductors with ample podium time in front of outstanding ensembles. Degrees are offered with emphases in Choral, Orchestral, or Wind conducting. The conducting program features private conducting study and significant podium...

Master of Music in Conducting (Emphasis Orchestral Conducting) (MMUS)

The orchestral conducting program features private conducting study and significant podium time. Teaching Assistantships in conducting and ensembles provide vital experiential learning opportunities throughout the degree. Collaboration among conducting faculty and students in all emphases makes it...

Master of Music in Conducting (Emphasis Wind Conducting) (MMUS)

This program is not accepting applications for the 2025 - 2026 academic year The M.Mus. with emphasis in wind conducting gives the aspiring professional wind conductor an unequaled opportunity to receive consistent, ample podium time with the �� Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Winds. Students...

Master of Music in Guitar (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician...

Master of Music in Harpsichord (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and who show potential of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician who wishes to enter the professional world, although...

Master of Music in Historical Performance Practice (MMUS)

The Master of Music in Historical Performance Practice offers students advanced training in early music, balancing theoretical study with rich opportunities in solo, chamber, and orchestral performance. Students in this program enjoy expert instruction in vocal and instrumental performance, and...

Master of Music in Opera (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in Opera performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic and performance...

Master of Music in Orchestral Instrument (MMUS)

Master of Music in Organ (MMUS)

Master of Music in Piano (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment at the undergraduate level who show potential for further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician who wishes to enter the...

Master of Music in Voice (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in Voice performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic performance step...

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�� Researchers conducting research in Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

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Boedhihartono, Agni

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Other studies in human society, n.e.c.; Visual arts and media arts, n.e.c.; Natural resource management; biodiversity; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Forest management; Land-use Change; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Arts and Conservaion; Landstewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Arts for Conservation; Visual anthropology; Forests and Societies

Byrne, Fionn

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Landscape architecture; Design innovation; Landscape studies (except architecture); Landscape design; Landscape ethics

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Carrabre, T. Patrick

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; construction of identity; creation of shared musical spaces with indigenous and non-western musicians; decolonization; use of interactive electronics

Cox, Susan

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other medical sciences; Sociology and related studies; Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

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Drljaca, Igor

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Creative writing; Documentary; Film Production; Screenwriting

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Fisher, Alexander

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music, n.e.c.; Christianity studies (including biblical studies and church history); musicology; music; Sound Studies; History; religious history; european history

Fung, David

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; performing arts, music, piano, piano performance, intersections between music and visual arts; historically informed performance,

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Georgopulos, Nicole

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; French art; nineteenth-century art and visual culture; art and science; gender and early feminism

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Hallensleben, Markus

Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Comparative literatures; Other Arts; German Language Cultures and Literatures; Transnational Literatures; Visual Arts and Literature; European Studies; Literature and Sciences; Literature and Migration; Narratives of Belonging; Decolonization and Indigenization

Hamel, Keith

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music composition; Composition; Interactive Computer Music

Hatef Naiemi, Atri

Faculty of Arts

Postdoctoral Fellow

History of art and architecture; Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology; Early and Medieval Islamic Urbanism; Chinese-Persian Cultural Contacts in the Medieval Period; Byzantine Art and Architecture; History and Archaeology of Central Asia in the Medieval Period; Traditional Crafts in the Islamic World

Hermiston, Nancy Jane

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera; Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker

Hesselink, Nathan

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; ethnomusicology; music analysis; entrainment; rhythmic play and social meaning; Anglo-American rock music; African American popular music; Afrofuturism

Hopkinson, Nalo

School of Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Creative writing, n.e.c.; Humanities and the arts; Creative Writing: Speculative Ficton, Fantasy, Science Fiction, especially Other Voices

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Jenkins, Carrie

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Philosophy; Creative writing; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Creative scholarship; Creative Writing; epistemology; Language and meaning; Metaphysics; Philosophy of love; Romantic love; Fiction; Poetry

Jun, Hyejung

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; choral

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Kamizaki, Kuni

School of Community and Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Architecture; Community development / social planning; Displacement; EDI perspectives and practice; housing; Planning theory

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Law, Hedy

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Opera; eighteenth-century French music; opera; pantomime; dance; gesture; sign; the Enlightenment; Cantonese music; Cantonese opera; Cantonese songs; tone language; global Cantonese music; global music history; gender and sexuality; music and race

Leddy, Shannon

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Visual arts and media arts; Art education; Indigenous Education; Indigenous ways of knowing; curriculum; Pedagogy; art as public pedagogy; bio-cultural diversity and sustainability education

Lyon, Annabel

School of Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Novels, stories and news

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Mansoor, Jaleh

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Cultural Industries; Formalism; Marxism and Critical Theory; Marxist Feminism; Modernism; Twentieth Century European Art

Marshall, Hallie

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; Ancient Greek Theatre; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Classics; Contemporary British Theatre; Cultural Industries; History of the Book; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Poetry; Reception Studies; Religion, Culture and Space; Theatre; Tony Harrison

McCormick, Kelly

Department of History, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Asian history; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Modern Japan; History of Visual and Material Culture/Photography; History of Technology; History of Gender and Sexuality

Metcalfe, Amy

Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Higher education; Educational policy; History and philosophy of education; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Higher Education Studies; Higher Education Policy; Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Higher Education; Science and Knowledge; Internationalization; Migration Studies; Academic Labour and Mobility; Visual Research Methods; Campus Environments

Monteyne, Joseph

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

History of art and architecture; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Media studies (except social media and digital media); British history; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture; early modern landscape and eco-criticism

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Nakamura, Fuyubi

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Museum studies (Museology); Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Globalization and culture; Environment, space and place; Anthropology of art; museum studies (working as curator at the Museum of Anthropology at ��); material and visual culture; Contemporary Japanese calligraphy; Indigenous cultures, especially Ainu; disaster and memory, especially in the context of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11).; contemporary Asian art and culture

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Peck, Alexandra

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Other studies related to history and archaeology; Art history and theory; Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest; historical Northwest Coast art; Salish (Coastal and Interior) art; Anthropology/anthroplogical methods; Material culture, archaeology, museums

Perley, Bernard

Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistic anthropology; Performance and installation art; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Linguistic Anthropology; Indigenous studies; Language Revitalization

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Rizzotti, Patrick

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; design; Design and Planning of Space; Theatrical Productions; Virtual Reality; Augmented reality; design for new works; devised work; narrative visual experience; production design; site specific experiences; theatre design

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Salgirli, Saygin

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

History of art and architecture; Architectural history and theory; Art theory and analysis; Ottoman Art, Islamic Art, Medieval Art, Early Modern Art, Mediterranean Art, Architectural History

Shamash, Sarah

Faculty of Arts

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Media arts; Visual arts and media arts, n.e.c.; Global South Cinemas, Indigenous Media, Documentary, Intersectional feminisms, Decolonization

Silver, Erin

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Activism and visual culture; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Canadian contemporary art; Feminist art histories; Movement culture; Performance studies; Queer art; social movements

Smith, Tai

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

History of art and architecture; Art theory and analysis; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles

Svendsen, Linda

School of Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Script development; Novels, stories and news; Writing for Television; Fiction

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Thauberger, Althea

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; Media philosophy; Photographic history/theory; Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism

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Usher, Camille

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art theory and analysis; Contemporary art; Indigenous visual culture; curatorial practices; Museum studies; feminism and performance; public art and graffiti

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Valadares, Desiree

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Landscape architecture; Environment, space and place; Media, visual and digital culture; Social and cultural geography; heritage politics and preservation; Asian North American history; war memory and war commemoration; cultural landscapes and architectural history

Vellutini, Claudio

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Opera; Critical Musicology; Cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera; Early 19th century music (opera); Habsburg cultural policies; Historiography; Italian opera in the Habsburg Empire; Performance and staging practices; Vienna opera (first half of 19th century); 19th-century opera singers; Opera and mobility studies; Opera's global dissemination in the 19th century

Vigna, John

Faculty of Arts

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Novels, stories and news; Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Creative Writing

Vujosevic, Tijana

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Architecture; History and theory of architecture; Modern period, with special expertise in art and architecture of socialism

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Walsh, Shannon

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Media arts; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Social and cultural anthropology; South Africa; Afropessimism & Critical Race Studies; Documentary; Film Production; Indigenous studies; Environmental justice; Affect Theory

Whitney, Valerie

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; French Horn

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Zaiontz, Keren

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; Performance studies; experimental performance practices; performance and the city; the cultural politics of festivals and mega-events; art-activism and social movements

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