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Kathleen looks to the left. She has short hair and brown eyes.

Dr. Kathleen Pirrie Adams

Associate Professor, New Media
OfficeRCC136
Phone553769

Education: 
BA (Hons.), University of Toronto
MA, York University
PhD, University of Leicester

Areas of Expertise: 

Kathleen has many years of undergraduate and graduate teaching experience. As a member of the New Media faculty, she has been deeply involved in many aspects of the program’s transformation, including curriculum development, course design, securing studio and presentation spaces for students and organizing META, the year-end showcase of 4th-year thesis projects. 

Kathleen is an experienced curator and media theorist who has developed exhibitions for TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop (TPW), InsideOUT LGBT Film Festival, and Images Festival. She served as the commissioner for InterAccess Electronic Media Art Centre’s presentation of Next Memory City at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2002 and held a Ruhnke Fellowship at the Image Centre, which focused on student engagement and the creation of knowledge networks.

Most recently, she published on how digital media reframes the core provisions of the museum in the Routledge Handbook of Museum, Media, and Communications (2019).