UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Music / Instructor, Director of Global Drums
Job Titles:
- Head
- Head ( View Profile )
Martin received her MFA in Art from Concordia University, Montreal, in 1994 and her BFA in 1989 from the same institution. Her works in installation, audio and video art and drawing have been exhibited widely in Canada, and also in Bulgaria, USA, and the UK. Since 2005, she has lived and worked in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Annie Martin's creative practice traverses installation, audio and video art, textiles, drawing and performative practices. Since 2004 she has conducted listening walks as a form of research and a contemplative performance practice. Annie's research interests include considerations of the situated, embodied subject in art, inter-sensory aesthetics, feminism and anti-racist critiques, and questions of authorship and reading.
Job Titles:
- Drama / Instructor & Production Manager
Job Titles:
- New Media / Associate Professor
Bob Cousins was born and raised in Lethbridge, but he does not hold this against himself. After earning his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Lethbridge, he became the first student there to receive a Master of Arts from the Department of Theatre and Dramatic Arts. Later, he completed a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from the Department of Film and Video at York University.
Bob started teaching at the University of Lethbridge as a sessional instructor back in the day. He is currently an Associate Professor in the New Media Department, and teaches courses in narrative writing, screenwriting, writing for comedy, film comedy, and animation history.
Bob has written 18 feature-length screenplays and a television pilot for a situation comedy, is actively seeking an agent in Los Angeles, and dreams of becoming the next Joe Gillis.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Support
- Music Conservatory
Brian Cherney: Transcendent Pedagogy and the Spiritualization of Technique. Invited paper. Illuminations: Brian Cherney at 75, McGill University, October 27-29, 2017.
Job Titles:
- New Media / Assistant Professor
Job Titles:
- Art Gallery
- Gallery Technician
Job Titles:
- Library Operations Specialist
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor ( on Leave )
Job Titles:
- New Media / Assistant Professor
Job Titles:
- Music / Sessional Lecturer
Job Titles:
- Stage Coordinator
- University Theatres
Job Titles:
- Chairman, Board of Governors
Advisor: Deirdre Coburn
Email: sgs.awards@uleth.ca
Phone: 403-329-2741
Office: School of Graduate Studies
To book an appointment with our Graduate Funding Facilitator, complete the Funding & Fees Inquiry Form
Job Titles:
- Drama / Chair - Department of Drama, Professor
- Member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema
- Professor
With a wide variety of experience as a director, screenwriter, editor and producer, Professor Deric Olsen has a creative practice that spans many facets of the production of dramatic narrative cinema. His filmography includes, Common Chord (2013) and The Phoenix Agenda (2006) and he is developing the feature-length thriller Threshold Effect and the cinematic web series Zenith.
His films have been official selections at national and international film festivals and his accolades include some prestigious individual awards, most notably the Les Kimber Award for Best Direction from the Director's Guild of Canada - Alberta Council together with the Best Director (Drama over 60 minutes) Award at the 2007 Alberta Film and Television Awards for his work on The Phoenix Agenda. He was nominated in four categories at the 2014 Alberta Film and Television Awards including Direction, Screenwriting, Editing, and Producing for his work on Common Chord.
Olsen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Department of Film at the University of Regina and teaches courses in digital video production, cinematography and lighting, post-production and visual effects, and narrative production techniques at the University of Lethbridge. His courses take a comprehensive, flexible approach to production methodology and provide a foundation of theory and practice that enable students to develop into creative visual storytellers.
Olsen is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, the Alberta Media Production Industries Association, and is a lifetime member of the Digital Cinema Society. He has previously served as Chair of the Department of New Media, Chair of the Graduate Programs in Fine Arts Committee, Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge.
Job Titles:
- New Media / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Cinema
- Drama
- on Leave Associate Professor / Film Studies Acting Comics
Dr. Aaron Taylor is an Associate Professor of Cinema and a Tier II Board of Governors Research Chair.
His work centers on screen acting, cognitive film theory, and the transmedia relations between film and comics. He is the editor of two anthologies on performance and characterization, and the author of over two dozen articles and book chapters. His ongoing research on acting and embodied cognition is enabled by interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in the Psychology and Drama Departments, as well as substantial internal and SSHRC funding.
Presently, he is the Associate Editor of Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, and a Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image. He served in various capacities on the Film Studies Association of Canada's Executive Committee from 2008-2014, and held a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Lethbridge from 2017-19.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Art
- Associate Professor / Art History, Visual Culture
Dr. Anne Dymond's current major research focuses on gender and diversity equity in contemporary art in Canada. Prior research projects focused on politics, power, cultural geography, and gender in late 19th and early 20th-century French art. A series of articles examining how anarchists mapped a cultural geography that imagined the south of France as an anarchist utopia led her to investigate tourist posters, giant statues of women, folk costumes and folk museums, and the anarchist painter Paul Signac.
She has also published on contemporary Canadian art and is working on a paper on Ai Weiwei's refugee activism. She received her PhD in Art History from Queen's University in 2000, and began teaching at the University of Lethbridge the same year.
In 2018, she was honoured as a University of Lethbridge Board of Governor's Teaching Chair.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Music
Dr. Arlan N. Schultz is associate professor of composition, theory, and digital audio arts at the University of Lethbridge. His composition teachers include Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Chinary Ung, Harvey Sollberger, Brian Cherney, and Michael Matthews.
Job Titles:
- Music / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- Music / Associate Professor / Music
Job Titles:
- Faculty of Education
- Professor ( on Leave )
Job Titles:
- Music / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- New Media / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- New Media / Associate Professor / Media, Advertising, Games, Pop Culture
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Member of the Canadian University Music Society
- Music / Associate Professor
Pianist Deanna Oye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Lethbridge where she teaches Studio Piano and Collaborative Piano, and also teaches for the U of L Conservatory of Music. She holds a doctorate in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), and has given solo and collaborative performances throughout Canada, the U.S., Scotland, Germany, and Japan.
In addition, her work has been broadcast on CBC Radio Two and National Public Radio in the United States. Recent performances have taken place at the University of Toronto's Walter Hall, Bemidji State University (Minnesota), Texas Tech University, New Mexico State University, Lakehead University, along with mixed solo and chamber music at the Watanabe Junichi Museum of Literature (Sapporo, Japan). As a performing member of the SoWeCa Chamber Music Festival, Deanna has shared the stage with internationally-renowned violist Rivka Golani, Israeli flutist Noam Buchman, and members of the Calgary Philharmonic and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras.
A strong commitment to teaching and innovation led to the development of the unique Collaborative Piano/Guitar course series at the U of L, which gives undergraduate pianists and guitarists the opportunity to learn fundamentals of collaborative music-making, and develop skills of high-level musical partnership in preparation for intensive training at the graduate level. Deanna's piano students have achieved success in a variety of endeavours, including performance and musicology studies at masters and doctoral levels, as well as staff pianist positions and competitions. In addition to frequent master class teaching and adjudicating, she is often invited to give career talks to aspiring young musicians.
As part of the wider music community, Deanna is an active member of the Canadian University Music Society, serving as its president from 2008-2010, the Alberta Registered Music Teachers Association, and the Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region. She is an enthusiastic advocate for new music and music in interdisciplinary contexts, with special interest in helping her students make connections between piano performance and their other passions.
Job Titles:
- Vice - President ( Research )
Dr. Dena McMartin
Vice-President (Research)
Supports the university's research community and endeavours by overseeing Animal Care Services, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Research Ethics, Research & Innovation Services and the University-Industry Liaison Office.
Office of the Vice-President
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Art
- Associate Professor / Art History, Museum Studies
Dr. Devon Smither completed her PhD at the University of Toronto in 2016. Her dissertation, Bodies of Anxiety: The Female Nude in Canadian Art, 1913-1945, critically examined the status of the nude genre in Canada, its history of controversy and censorship as it connected to gender, modernity, and Canadian art historiography. She is currently completing a manuscript based on this research.
She joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge as an Assistant Professor in 2016, prior to which she taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. Current research projects include an examination of the self-portraits of Canadian artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod and a longer-term research project on the women artists whose work formed the foundation for the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Devon Smither, "No Nudes, Please-We're Canadian," Literary Review of Canada (May 2017): 13-14. Devon Smither, "Work in Progress: Responding to Canada at 150," in Alter/Nation, Kamloops Art Gallery, June 2017.
Job Titles:
- Provost & Vice - President ( Academic )
The Provost provides leadership, oversight, and direction across a broad spectrum of University operations including institutional planning and reporting; academic program development, implementation, maintenance and quality assurance; student services; and budgeting and reporting in collaboration with the Vice-President (Finance and Administration).
Dr. Feng Jiao understands better than most the power of data and business analytics to improve financial performance.
Job Titles:
- Music / Associate Professor
Georg Boenn joined the Music Department in fall 2015, teaching courses in the Digital Audio Arts program. He studied composition at the University of Music in Cologne, Germany. His teachers include Jürg Baur, Krzysztof Meyer and Clarence Barlow. After graduation, he joined the Cursus d'Informatique Musicale at IRCAM, Paris. In 2011, Georg completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bath, UK, where he worked in the areas of Algorithmic Composition and Automated Music Transcription. Georg was resident artist at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Centre for Art and Media), and at the Atelierhaus Worpswede, Germany.
In summer 1999, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. He taught Electronic Music at the University of Music, Bremen, and was a Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Technologies at the University of South Wales, UK. Georg's musical output contains works for solo instruments, ensembles, vocal music, orchestral and electronic music.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Music / Associate Professor, Director of University of Lethbridge Singers
Janet Youngdahl is an Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge. She is active as a soprano, academic, and choral conductor. She has toured with the ensemble for medieval music Sequentia throughout Europe and North America.
In concert, she has appeared at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, the Proms in London, the Melbourne Festival in Australia, and in concerts in Amsterdam, Paris, Florence, Cologne, Stockholm, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, Professor
Josephine Mills is the Director/Curator of the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and an Associate Professor in the Department of Art.
She has worked as a curator and public programmer at art galleries and artist-run centres in Saskatoon and Vancouver. Mills has a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University and is a graduate of the Museum Leadership Institute at the Getty Center. She is the Principal Investigator for Level 2: Lichen Lab. Her research interests focus on socially-engaged art and gallery practices, along with issues of public engagement in art galleries.
Mills is past President of both the Canadian Art Museum Directors' Organization / Organisation des Directeurs des Musées d'Art du Canada and the University and College Art Gallery Association of Canada.
A founding member of Canada's first university-based Native American Studies program, Dr. Little Bear works with the university leadership team and throughout the institutional to advance Indigenous initiatives at the university.
Job Titles:
- Music / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- Faculty of Health Sciences
Job Titles:
- Music / Interim Chair - Music Department, Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor ( on Leave )
Job Titles:
- Art
- Sessional Lecturer - Calgary Campus
Job Titles:
- Drama / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean of Student Services, Academic Advisor
James Dobbie completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in History from the University of Lethbridge and a Master of Arts at Simon Fraser University. His main area of expertise is the social history of the United States in the twentieth century and in particular the 1960s.
James joined the Faculty of Fine Arts as Assistant Dean of Student Program Services in 2005 after serving as an Academic Advisor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Calendar Editor in the Office of the Registrar at the University of Lethbridge.
Job Titles:
- Drama / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- Administrative Manager
- Art Gallery
Job Titles:
- Drama / Assistant Professor
Job Titles:
- Art Gallery
- Gallery Registrar
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Drama / Associate Professor
Justin A. Blum is an Associate Professor who teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and dramaturgy. His published research focuses on melodrama and other popular performance forms, as well as the intersection between theatre history, dramaturgy, and contemporary theatrical production. He holds a PhD in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto, an MA in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Before arriving at the University of Lethbridge he taught at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto; the Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga; Theatre Studies Program, Western University; and the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, University of Toronto, where he was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow.
Job Titles:
- Vice - President ( Development, Alumni Relations & Community Engagement )
Oversees Donor and Alumni Relations to cultivate engagement, involvement and a sustainable culture of philanthropy among our University communities.
Job Titles:
- Drama / Sessional Lecturer
Job Titles:
- Academic Advisor
- Fine Arts Academic Advising
Job Titles:
- Programs Coordinator
- Art Gallery
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor ( on Leave )
Job Titles:
- New Media / Chair - New Media Department, Professor
Job Titles:
- Administrative Support
- Fine Arts Academic Advising
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor ( on Leave )
Job Titles:
- Art
- Professor Board of Governors Research Chair, Tier 1 / Interdisciplinary Art Studio
Job Titles:
- Music / Assistant Professor
Job Titles:
- Drama / Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- New Media / Sessional Lecturer
Job Titles:
- Acting Technical Coordinator, Lighting Technician
- University Theatres
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor ( on Leave )
Job Titles:
- Vice - President ( Finance & Administration )
Oversees the university's Ancillary Services, Facilities, Financial Services, Human Resources, General Counsel and Sport & Recreation Services offices. She also serves as a liaison officer for Universities Academic Pension Plan, as well as a variety of provincial and federal funding agencies.
Job Titles:
- Drama / Assistant Professor
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor ( on Leave )
Job Titles:
- Costume Shop / Props Assistant
- University Theatres / Drama
Job Titles:
- Fine Arts Technician ( Casual )
- University Theatres
Job Titles:
- New Media / Instructor, Internship Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor Interim Assistant Dean
Job Titles:
- Music / Sessional Lecturer