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May Chew is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University, holding dual appointments in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and the Department of Art History. She specializes in interactive and immersive technologies in cultural institutions, with a focus on how these technologies shape national and cultural identities. Her research integrates settler-colonial studies, hauntology, and critical race theory.
Chew earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at York University’s Sensorium Centre. She collaborates on projects like Houses on Pengarth and Archive/Counter-Archive, emphasizing socially-engaged experimental art and decolonial methodologies.
Her teaching spans visual culture, hauntology, and sensory studies, including courses on art and embodiment, Indigenous cinema, and critical immersion. She actively supervises graduate students exploring themes like queer gestures, hauntological analysis, and decolonial futures.
Chew participates in academic networks such as EAHR Media and the Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. Her work bridges art history, media studies, and cultural geography, addressing how technologies mediate historical memory and cultural citizenship.
