Véronique Buist

Artiste, Montréal

Véronique Buist est une artiste visuelle de Montréal bachelière en arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQÀM. Sa démarche explore notamment la broderie, la fabrication de papier ainsi que l’installation évoluant autour du médium et de la fibre. S’intéressant principalement à la perception, physique ou conceptualisée, son travail a été présenté à de nombreuses reprises dans des manifestations artistiques au Québec et à l’international. @verobuist

Stéphanie Filion

Artiste, Montréal

Écrivaine et artiste, Stéphanie Filion a fait paraître plusieurs recueils de poésie aux éditions du Lézard amoureux. Depuis une quinzaine d’années, son travail s’articule autour du quotidien, de la mémoire et du vivant. Boursière du CALQ, elle se penche présentement sur le coeur anatomique et la guérison, avec la poésie autant que le papier (reliure, cyanotype, collage) comme moyens d’exploration. @labopapier

Karine Bellerive

Postdoc / Chercheure postdoctorale, Université du Québec à Montréal

Karine Bellerive est chercheure postdoctorale à l’École de travail social de l’UQAM. Au croisement des Aging Studies et des Feminist Cultural Studies, ses travaux visent notamment à éprouver la portée heuristique de l’écriture comme recherche. Elle codirige deux numéros thématiques de la revue Communication intitulés « Écrire la recherche autrement : regards réflexifs et pratiques contrastées », lesquels seront publiés en août et novembre 2022. Elle enseigne au Département de communication de l’Université de Sherbrooke.

Charmaine Cadeau

Associate Professor, High Point University

Charmaine Cadeau, Associate Professor of English at High Point University, specializes in creative writing and contemporary American literature. She has two collections of poetry, What You Used to Wear and Placeholder, which won the Brockman Campbell Book Award and the ReLit Award. Her newest chapbook, Skytale, was handmade and letterpress printed.

Christina Corfield

Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz & San Francisco Art Institute

Christina is a multimedia artist, media scholar and Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Art Institute. She has published in the online journal Media Fields, as well as The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture and has exhibited across the US, most recently at the Walter McBean Gallery in San Francisco.

VINICIUS DE AGUIAR SANCHEZ

MFA Student / Étudiant à la maîtrise, Concordia University

Vinicius De Aguiar Sanchez is an interdisciplinary artist whose works explore print, paper, animation and sound. His short films address narratives in folk mythology, history and technology networks. Enacting play to critically reorient narratives, the works question what it means to be human in an interconnected world. De Aguiar Sanchez has exhibited in and worked with several international institutions and film festivals, including the Center for Book Arts , New York , The Norton Museum of Art, Florida, and more.

Tim Elfenbein

Project Manager, Open Publishing Infrastructure for Monographs

Timothy W. Elfenbein is a project manager at the Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructure for Monographs (COPIM) project, developing a metadata dissemination service for open-access book publishers. He worked as a production editor at Duke University Press, and the managing editor of Cultural Anthropology. Tim is a proud drop-out of distinguished doctoral programs in anthropology and informatics, holds a master’s degree in information science from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and his most significant writings appear on Twitter. @timelfen

Maureen Flint

Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

Maureen A. Flint is Assistant Professor in Qualitative Research at the University of Georgia where she teaches courses on qualitative research design and theory. Her scholarship explores the theory, practice, and pedagogy of qualitative methodologies, artful inquiries, and questions of social (in)justice, ethics, and equity in higher education. Representations of her artful inquiries can be found on her website at www.maureenflint.com.

Sandra Gabriele

Associate Professor, Concordia University

Sandra Gabriele is Vice-Provost for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor of  Communication Studies at Concordia University. Her research has focused on changing news forms from women’s pages, to Sunday papers to newsgames and podcasts. With Paul Moore, she is the co-author of The Sunday Paper: A Media History.

PIERRE-OLIVIER GAUMONT

PhD Student / Doctorant, Université du Québec à Montréal

Pierre-Olivier Gaumont est étudiant au doctorat en études littéraires de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) : ses recherches portent sur l’intégration dramaturgique des sciences dans le théâtre québécois contemporain. Parallèlement à son parcours académique, il endosse le rôle de conseiller à la dramaturgie dans plusieurs créations de la compagnie Baobab | Création multidisciplinaire et du collectif La Décombre et est employé comme vulgarisateur scientifique/éducateur au Centre des sciences de Montréal.

Céline Gendron

Researcher, Université de Montréal

Following retirement from the federal government, Céline Gendron undertook a doctoral dissertation on the provenance, circulation, and use of writing paper in New France in the seventeenth century. Her research was published by the Presses de l’Université Laval (Canada) in 2018 and by Hermann Publishing (France) in 2019 under the title Le papier voyageur : Provenance, circulation et utilisation en Nouvelle-France au XVIIe siècle.

Hugo P. Gladu

Master's Student / Étudiant à la maîtrise, Université de Montréal

Hugo P. Gladu is a Master’s student in Communication studies. His thesis is on contemporary paper magazines and how they are imbricated in a tapestry of social, cultural and global textures. He has a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing and screenwriting from Université de Montréal. Hugo works in the communications team at the Montreal Urban Ecology Center. He is also in charge of communications for the literature and art journal MuseMedusa.

Sheryl N. Hamilton

Professor, Carleton University

Sheryl N. Hamilton is a Canada Research Professor at Carleton University, in the School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Law and Legal Studies. Her work has long explored the intersections of popular cultural and ‘expert’ modes of knowing. Most recently this has taken her into the study of pandemic culture, shifting norms of embodiment, the material culture(s) of public health, and sensuous subjectivity.

Ilinca Iurascu

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Ilinca Iurascu (Associate Professor of German, University of British Columbia) works on 19th c. cultural studies and media theory, with particular focus on histories of materiality and technology. She is the co-editor (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz) of Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons and Media (Duke UP, 2021). Her recent article on papercraft-based pedagogy (“Papierdenken: Blasche, Fröbel and the Lessons of Nineteenth-Century Paper Modeling”) appeared in the Goethe Yearbook 28, 2021. @ilincaiuarescu

Alysse Kushinski

Independent Scholar

Alysse Kushinski is an interdisciplinary media scholar whose work sits at the intersection of critical theory, aesthetics, and visual and material culture. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication & Culture from York University where she was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow. She was previously Postdoctoral Researcher at Artefact Lab in the Department of Communication at Université de Montréal and is the current book reviews editor for PUBLIC.

Deidre Lynch

Professor, Harvard University

Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her recent publications include The Unfinished Book  (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-edited with Alexandra Gillespie. She is currently completing a book titled Paper Slips: Disassembling and Remaking the Book, in the Eighteenth Century and After. @DrBibliomane

Will Mari

Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Will Mari is Assistant Professor at the Manship School at Louisiana State University. He received his MPhil from Wolfson College, Cambridge and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He studies media history, especially analog-to-digital transitions. He is married to Dr. Ruth Moon Mari, and they have a son, Theo, and a choodle, Roux. @willthewordguy

Catriona Macleod

Professor, University of Chicago

Catriona MacLeod is Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, where she is also affiliated with Art History. Current co-editor of the journal Word & Image, much of her research focuses on questions of intermediality. She is currently completing a new book project titled Romantic Scraps, Cutouts, Collages, and Inkblots, which explores how Romantic authors and visual artists cut, glue, stain, and recycle paper. @CatrionaMacL

Jenifer Monger

Archivist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jenifer is an Archivist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she wrangles digital and analog archives. Her professional love for history, culture, and context has recently permeated her personal life where she now enjoys the art of extra-illustration to reinterpret a personal journal created in Italy, two decades ago.

Paul Moore

Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University

Paul Moore is Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. His histories of the intersection of cinema exhibition and newspaper distribution have appeared in Canadian Journal of Film StudiesThe Moving Image, and Film History. @PSMooreTMU

Sabina Rak

MFA student / Étudiante à la maîtrise, Concordia University

Sabina Rak lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Currently she is an MFA candidate in Print Media at Concordia University (2020-2023), where she received the 2020 Dave McGary Memorial Award in Fine Arts. She previously obtained a Bachelor with Honours (1999) from McGill University, as well as a Masters (2001) in Art History and a BFA with Great Distinction (2014) from Concordia University. Since then, she has had 3 solo exhibitions and 9group exhibitions.

Joseph Rosenberg

Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His first book, Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print, was recently published by Oxford University Press. He is now writing a book on the aesthetics of the unfinished.

Rebecca Rouse

Associate Professor (Docent), University of Skövde, Sweden

Rebecca Rouse is an Associate Professor (Docent) in the Division of Game Development at the University of Skövde, Sweden, researching both the history and practice of storytelling with new technologies. Rouse creates projects with new modes of storytelling, and conducts historical research into connections of today’s media with the past.

Sophie Valiergue

PhD Student / Doctorante, Université de Montréal

Sophie Valiergue est étudiante en deuxième année de doctorat en communication à l’Université de Montréal. Historienne de l’art et muséologue de formation,elle a plusieurs années d’expérience dans différents musées d’art contemporain et de société en France, dans des laboratoires de recherche en ethnologie et dans le patrimoine. J’envisage la recherche-création comme approche, et, je m’intéresse à la pratique sociale, en particulier à la question de l’émergence d’un discours commun par la création artistique collaborative.

Michael Stamm

Professor, Michigan State University

Michael Stamm is Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University.  His most recent book is Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

Celina Van DEMBROUCKE

Postdoctoral Researcher / Chercheure postdoctorale, Université du Québec à Montréal

Celina Van Dembroucke est chercheure postdoctorale au CELAT-UQÀM. Elle est docteure en communication (Université McGill). Elle a obtenu une maîtrise en études latino-américaines à l’Université du Texas à Austin, aux États-Unis. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les médias, les temporalités du numérique, et l’impact de la technologie mobile dans la pratique photographique contemporaine.

Georgina Wilson

Early Career Research Fellow, University of Cambridge

Dr Georgina Wilson is an Early Career Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She works on early modern literature and the history of the book. Her current book project, Paper and the Making of Literature in Early Modern England shows how paper imaginatively and physically gave form to early modern literature. @GeorginaEMW

The Moderators

Les modérateur.trice.s

CLARA CHAMPAGNE is a Ph.D. student in communication studies at Université de Montréal. Her doctoral research focuses on the epistemology of literary journalism and Joan Didion’s work. @clarachamp4

KATHARINA NIEMAYER is a professor of media theory of the École des médias at UQAM. She is the cofounder of the International Media and Nostalgia Network. @kathniemeyer 

CHRIS RUSSILL is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. He is interested in political (in)action around climate change and in the dangers, harms, and injustices that are distributed by this problem. He is the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Communication.

RAFICO RUIZ is Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (Duke, 2021) and the co-editor, with Melody Jue, of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (Duke 2021).

WILL STRAW is James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University Montreal. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America and of 200 articles on print culture, cinema and the urban night. He is completing a book on the 1920s American periodical Broadway Brevities and tabloid culture. @wstraw