Dr. Julia Chan

Biography

Julia Chan is a mixed-race settler, writer, artist, and academic whose scholarly research focuses on visual culture at the intersections of surveillance, criminalities, and pleasure images within digital media technologies and platforms. Her work emphasizes media practices that challenge dominant paradigms of whiteness, heteronormativity, and globalized colonial-capitalism. As a maker-scholar, Chan is currently engaged in a collaborative performance/research-creation project called 'Cam Hunters' with Dr. Stéfy McKnight, which seeks to interrogate surveillance culture in daily life using innovative research-creation methodologies. Her published work spans academic and literary contexts, and her screenwriting has been showcased at various film festivals, including Sundance. Additionally, her photography and video works have been exhibited at Kingston's Tett Centre at Queen's University. Before joining the University of Calgary, Chan served as the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University's Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and as a Mitacs Postdoctoral Visitor in Cinema Media Arts at York University, where she was also Managing Editor of the journal 'PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas'. She is currently on the board of the Surveillance Studies Network, a leading professional organization dedicated to the field of surveillance studies. Outside her academic pursuits, she possesses ten years of professional experience in the arts, film, and media sectors.

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