Dr. Anne Pasek (she/her)
Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
Assistant Professor, Trent University
BA (University of Alberta), MA (McGill), PhD (New York University)
Email: annepasek@trentu.ca
Research Interests: climate change, energy/environmental humanities, science communication, visual culture, new materialisms, infrastructure, cultural politics
Personal Website: annepasek.com
Swati Mehta (she/her)
PhD Candidate – Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University
BA (Loreto College, Calcutta University), MA (CIM, University of Warwick)
Email: swatimehta@trentu.ca
Research Interests: digital media and culture, climate movement and politics, environmental justice, activism, platform studies, social networks, sociology of data and quantification
Sarah Rayner (she/they)
PhD Candidate – Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University
Email: sarahrayner@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Feminist media studies, visual culture, queer-feminist activisms, digital and print media cultures, art and politics, affect, popular culture
Kees Schuller (they/them)
PhD Candidate – Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University
BA (University of Windsor), MA (Queen’s University)
Email: keesschuller@trentu.ca
Research Interests: genre fiction, science fiction, energy/environmental humanities, game studies, creative writing, activism, social and environmental justice, transhumanism, monster theory
Lynn Vegh (she/he/they)
Honours in Environment and Resource Studies – School of the Environment, Trent University
Email: sarahvegh@trentu.ca
Research Interests: environmental humanities, community-based resource relationships, environmental communication, non-charismatic species, Indigenous rights
Sathyanarayanan Venkatakrishnan (he/him)
MSc in Big Data Analytics at Trent University, Peterborough
PG Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with University of Texas at Austin and Great Lakes Executive Learning, Online
BTech in Biotechnology at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
Email: svenkatakrishnan@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, GIS, IOT, Simulation, Artificial Intelligence