Susan Cahill

PhD

Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Art and Art History

Contact information

susan.cahill@ucalgary.ca

Location

Office: AB663

For media enquiries, contact

All media requests should be through the University of Calgary: mediarequests@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Art History, Queen's University, 2012

M.A. Art History, Queen's University, 2007

B.A. English Literature (Theatre Arts specialization), Memorial University, 2002

Research

Areas of Research

Canadian Art History, Art of war and surveillance, New media technologies and cultural theory, issues of museum representation and display;, feminist craft practices and globalization

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Human dynamics in a changing world

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
ARHI 211	Writing and Art History
ARHI 305	Canadian Art History
ARHI 333	Contemporary Art & Architecture
ARHI 431	Art and the Body
ARHI 615	Conference Course in Art History
ART 699	Art Theory and Criticism
ART 605	Critical Research and Studies
ARHI 301	Art of Canada, 1600-1900
ARHI 303	Art of Canada, 1900-Present
ARHI 311	Topics in Art History
ARHI 407	Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century Art
ARHI 501	Independent Research in Art History I
ARHI 503	Independent Research in Art History II
ART 513	Directed Study
ART 563	Studio Practice

Publications

Burnout and Recovery: Academic Life, Lately, special Polemics section. Susan Cahill and Erin Morton. RACAR. (2024)
Surveillance Frontierism: Art and the colonial project of surveillance. Susan Cahill. Media Practice and Education. 128-146. (2023)
The Planet as Archive. Susan Cahill and Mél Hogan. Un-/Learning Archives in the Age of the Sixth Extinction. (2022)
Diagnosis of a Planetary Condition. Susan Cahill and Mél Hogan. NEXTGATe, special issue on Sustainable Academia. (2022)
Surveillance Frontierism. Susan Cahill. Heliotrope. (2021)
Imagining Creative Futures, special thematic issue . Susan Cahill and Bryce Newell. Surveillance & Society . (2021)
The Fabric of History: The Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework in fin-de-siècle New England. Susan Cahill. Massachusetts Historical Review . 1-40. (2020)
Visual Art, Corporeal Economies, and the "New Normal" of Surveillant Policing in the War on Terror. Susan Cahill. Surveillance & Society . 352-366. (2019)
Almost Home (Documentary Film). Written by Susan Cahill, Co-Directed by Susan Cahill and Matthew Rogers, Produced by Susan Cahill and Frictive Pictures. (2018)
The Elsewhere War: Art, Embodiment, and the Spaces of Military Engagement. Susan Cahill. Journal of Canadian Studies . 636-664. (2017)
Killjoys, Academic Citizenship, and the Politics of Getting Along. Heather Igloliorte, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Erin Morton, Charmaine A. Nelson, Cheli Nighttraveller, AJ Ripley, Carla Taunton, Tamara Vukov, Susan Cahill, and Kristy Holmes. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies . 187-208. (2017)
Affective Terrains: Art, War, and National Belonging. Susan Cahill. Canadian Military History Journal . 1-24. (2016)

In the News

Ashley Miller, interview with Susan Cahill, "Back to Clattice Harbour: An abandoned community seen through the eyes of the next generation". Downhome.
Lauren Power, interview with Susan Cahill, “‘I’ve Never Been to Clattice Harbour”: New Doc Will Capture Parents’ Return to Resettled Community”. The Overcast .