Andrew Burke

Andrew Burke is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg, specializing in Film and Television Studies, Cultural Studies, and Popular Music Studies. His research focuses on residual media, melancholic musical forms, slow cinema, unofficial archives, and material culture in postwar cinema.

• SSHRC Partnership Grant (2019-2026) - Co-investigator on Archive/Counter-Archive project
• SSHRC Insight Grant (2021-2026) - Co-investigator on Distributed Networks: Media Archaeologies of Educational TV

His work explores the intersection of media archaeology, critical theory, and Canadian cinematic history through publications like Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 11970s (2019) and ongoing research about designed objects in 1960s-70s cinema. He co-founded digitization initiatives with the Winnipeg Film Group.

Recent publications analyze global media circulations (2025), pandemic domestic artifacts (2021), and interwar cinematic influences (2019). His SSHRC-funded projects examine educational TV history (1945-75) and archive theory.

• F.E.L. Priestley Prize for Best Article in English Studies in Canada (2006)

Burke supervises graduate research in cultural studies, with expertise in cinematic materiality and media nostalgia. He teaches courses like 'Collecting Media/Media Collections' and serves as a cultural memory consultant for institutions like Plug-In ICA.