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Alexandra Peck is the Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Art and is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. As an anthropologist and material culture specialist, her scholarship examines historic Coast Salish art, landscape, and cultural change, as well as Northwest Coast Indigenous art more broadly. Her past research explored the 20th-century adoption of totem poles into Coast Salish artistic repertoire, Coast Salish public art in urban settings, and Coast Salish mortuary practices. Her current projects range from ancient Coast Salish stone carvings and Kwakwaka’wakw repatriation claims to Haida depictions of fungi and sexuality via argillite.

With her background in comparative literature, film studies, and cultural studies, Helena Wu is keen on developing cross-disciplinary approaches to textual and visual narratives, popular culture, and creative practices. Her primary area of research is Hong Kong, with a focus on cinema, literature, and culture, while she is also interested in exploring cross-cultural dynamics and inter-Asian connections at large. Her first monograph examined the relationship between cultural icons, thing, and place. Currently, she researches spectators and spectatorship, with a view to critically examining the changing interactions between cultural expression, memory, affect, and identity.