Miranda Campbell

Miranda Campbell is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Industries. Her research focuses on creative employment, youth culture, and small-scale and emerging forms of creative practice. She is the author of Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (Routledge, 2022) and How to Care More: Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Her book, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. Her involvement with creative communities includes coordination and board of director roles with Rock Camp for Girls Montreal, a summer camp dedicated to empowerment for girls through music education, and with Whippersnapper Gallery, an artist-run centre focusing on emerging artists in Toronto.

Diversity Statement

I’ve learnt about what anti-oppressive practice can look in practice from my roles in community organizations. I aim to balance accountability with support and nurturance in the classroom and in my graduate supervision. In the classroom, I often start with community agreements so we can explicit state and discuss our expectations and values for the classroom environment, so we can work towards fostering a safer learning community. In my course outlines, in addition to assembling a broad array of texts and thinkers, I also aim to offer multi-media “readings” (e.g. podcasts, art works, pieces of music), to break up a dominant text-based focus or approach to learning. In my graduate supervision, I work with a solutions-focused coaching model, aiming to help empower students to navigate their own pathways with ease and agency.

Recent publications

Books:

2022. Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care. Routledge

2022. How to Care More: Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change. Rowman & Littlefield.
Edited Collection:

2022. Creative Industries in Canada. Co-edited with Cheryl Thompson. Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Journal Articles:

2022. “Strategies for Social Engagement: Arts-Service Organizations and Organizational Intermediation.” Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk. Poetics. 92(B), 1-12.

2022. “Tending the Garden: Possibilities and Limitations of Developing Inclusive Environments in the Arts and Culture Sector.” Miranda Campbell and Erika Chung. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change. 7(1), 1-14.

2021. “Making Community Knowledge Visible: Mapping Canadian Arts-Service Organizations as Cultural Research Conduits.” Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk. Canadian Journal of Communication. 47(1), 79–99.

2021. “Reimagining the Creative Industries in the Community Youth Arts Sector.
Cultural Trends. 30(3), 263-282.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2022- Lauren Cullen; PhD thesis, Productive Discomfort: Canadian Hooked Rugs and the Pedagogy of Unwelcome Mats

2021- Kait Kribs; Phd thesis, From Piracy Panic to Platform Praise (And Back Again): Digitization’s Impact on Making, Moving, and Monetizing Music in Canada

2021 - Lucy Wowk; MA Project-Paper: Contestable Confessions of the Untranslatable: A Worldmaking Project

2021 - Özge Dilan Arslan; MA Project-Paper: To See and Be Seen: a Toolkit for Facilitating Arts-Based Workshops with Refugee Youth

ComCult Teaching Activities

• CC 8849 Selected Topics in Politics and Policy - Youth, Culture, and the Creative Economy
• CC 8959 Community-based Action Research Methods
  
• CC 9901 Special Topics in Research Methods - Research and Care Ethics