Dr. Sandra Huber, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices, Faculty of Fine Arts

Dr. Sandra Huber's main areas of interest include interdisciplinary and creative pedagogies with a focus on writing; occulted practices and epistemologies; embodied research; and all these in combination.

Dr. Huber guides students through the creation of art work and thought work outside their disciplines, while re-imagining what constitutes foundational capacities in the Fine Arts, including writing (as somatic practice), researching (as activism), citing (as feminist practice), mindfulness, collaboration, and resource-sharing. How do keywords such as archive, emotion, failure, or magic act as knots to create interdisciplinary conversation and cultural work? As part of the Keywords Area (FFAR 248/249), she coordinates a Pedagogy Training Program for a teaching team of 20-plus graduate student Tutorial Leaders.

Her research focuses on interdisciplinary practices and pedagogies as well as occulted areas of knowledge-making, such as witchcraft, magic, sleep, and dreams — what she terms night knowledge. Dr. Huber holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities (Concordia), an MA in Creative Writing (University of Toronto), and a BA in English (Hons., Simon Fraser University).

FFAR 250: “Keywords: Reading the Arts across the Disciplines”

ENGL 212/4: “English Composition, Stage I”

ANTH 325: “Magic, Science, Religion, and Ideology”

WSDB/RELI 398C: “Witches: Media, Magic and Culture”

Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2014), http://talonbooks.com/books/assembling-the-morrow.

“The Scent of Sleep: On Night Knowledge and Its Atmospheres,” Intermediality / Intermédialités, no. 41, Sleeping / Dormir (Spring 2023).

“Spirit, Writer: 19^th-Century Mediumship and the Feminist Practice of (De)Inscription,” Feminist Media Histories, Embodiment issue (Summer 2020).

“Tears and Potions and Blood and Flames: Excesses of Transformation in Ari Aster’s Midsommar,” Frames Cinema Journal, Magical Women, Witches, and Healers issue (Winter 2019). https://framescinemajournal.com/article/blood-and-tears-and-potions-and-flame-excesses-of-transformation-in-ari-asters-midsommar.

“Fire, Earth, Ecstasy: Gossiping with the Gods,” Public Journal: Art, Culture, Ideas, Smoke issue (Winter 2019).

“Villains, Ghosts, and Roses, or How to Speak with the Dead,” Open Cultural Studies, Of Sacred Crossroads Issue (2019).

"Pornography, Ectoplasm, and the Secret Dancer: A Twin Reading of Naomi Uman's Removed," co-authored with Hilary Bergen, Screening the Past, issue 43 (April 2018), http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-43-dossier-materialising-absence-in-film-and-media/pornography-ectoplasm-and-the-secret-dancer-a-twin-reading-of-naomi-umans-removed/

“Notes from an Educator: Who Are the Ancestors of the Witches?,” in Risa and Dickens and Amy Torok, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic (Berkley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2021).

Selected creative work:

"Ghost," Prism International 61.4 (Summer 2023).

“Last Night,” “Polyester (Cancer Moon),” “To Night,” The Posthumanist, Sleep / Schlaf, no. 1 (Winter 2022), 33, 49, 64.

“The Time Is,” The Town Crier, Ecopoetics issue, June 5, 2018,

 http://towncrier.puritan-magazine.com/ephemera/sandra-huber.

“A Poet Goes to Work in a Sleep Laboratory: A Journal in Five Parts,” in Artists-in-Labs: Recomposing Art and Science, eds. Irène Hedigger and Jill Scott (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016).

“The Wilfrid Tarot” (game), March 2016, https://sandrah.itch.io/the-wilfrid-tarot.

“Autobiography of Sleep,” Standart, vol. 2/3 (October 2016).

“Preface to Sleep,” Contemporary Verse 2 (Winter 2015).