Université du Québec à Montréal

◦ Contemporary Middle Eastern art and contemporary art in Islamic countries
◦ Relationships between art and culture in a globalized world : cultural identities, multiculturalism, hybridity, otherness, and intermixing
◦ Cultural studies
◦ Postcolonialism
◦ Art historiography
◦ Historiography of Islamic art

◦ Semiotics and hermeneutics of the image
◦ Ancient Egypt and Near-Eastern art and archaeology
◦ Cultural management of heritage sites: epigraphy, restoration, and museology
◦ Visual studies
◦ 3D digital imaging
◦ History of collections in Quebec
◦ Eye-tracking 

◦ Museum studies
◦ Cultural heritage
◦ History of collections in Quebec
◦ History of North American museums
◦ Museums and the public
◦ Cultural studies 

◦ Museum studies
◦ New museologies
◦ Architectural history
◦ Exhibition and set design
◦ Human rights museology

◦ History and theory of 20th and 21st-century performance art, the moving image, and conceptual art
◦ Collective and cultural memory in contemporary art
◦ History and theory of cultural appropriation and cultural recovery in the 20th and 21st centuries
◦ History and theory of authorial status and artistic collaboration 
◦ History and theory of exhibition design
◦ Museum studies
◦ Contemporary art curation

◦ Architectural history and theory (1750-1871)
◦ Cartography 
◦ History of cities and territories
◦ Architecture and utopia

◦ European Art (1750-1850)
◦ Prints, illustrations, print culture and intermedia practices
◦ Representations of America 

◦ History and theory of contemporary art 
◦ Curating and museum studies
◦ Storytelling and new narrative methods
◦ Art and the city, artistic interventions in urban settings

◦ History and historiography of Quebecois and Canadian art
◦ Caricature and graphic satire 
◦ Théories de la représentation 
◦ Visual and textual figures of irony, the grotesque and the carnavalesque 

◦ Media arts
◦ Art and new technologies
◦ Hybridities of art and sexuality in contemporary art  
◦ Visual semiology

◦ 20th century art and politics
◦ Socially and politically engaged art practices in Quebec
◦ Quebecois art
◦ Cultural mediation 

◦ 17th and 18th century domestic architecture in Quebec
◦ Textual sources for architectural history in New France
◦ Green architecture in the United States in the 1970s

◦ History and theory of photography
◦ Photojournalism and the illustrated press
◦ Photography and literature
◦ Amateurism and contemporary art 
◦ Aesthetics and the ethics of criticism

◦ Architectural history, theory and criticism from 1945 to today
◦ Modern architecture
◦ North American and Quebecois architecture 

◦ Theories and philosophy of art
◦ Aesthetics
◦ Contemporary art
◦ German Romanticism
◦ Art and discourse
◦ History and theory of performativity 

◦ Indigenous and non-indigenous visual cultures in Quebec and Canada in the 20th century
◦ Identity issues and cultural diversity
◦ Women and Gender Studies
◦ Historiography 

◦ 16th and 17th century European art, especially Italian painting
◦ Art and knowledge, epistemological approaches to art
◦ Aesthetics and art theory, from Renaissance to contemporary
◦ Text and image relations

◦ Contemporary art
◦ Contemporary Quebecois art
◦ History of women’s art
◦ Feminist art, feminist art history and gender studies
◦ Aesthetics

◦ Canadian art
◦ The beginnings of modernity
◦ Sociology of art
◦ Fashion

◦ History and theory of modern and contemporary art 
◦  20th-century art and politics 
◦ The social history of taste  
◦ Globalisation, multiculturalism, and the aesthetics of hybridity