## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [Overview](/index%2Ephp/academics) 3. [Faculty Members](/index%2Ephp/academics/explore-faculty) 4. [Ashok Mathur](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/4583) # Ashok Mathur ![](https://ultima7-its.ocadu.ca/bios/amathur/portrait) amathur@ocadu.ca Faculty Information Vice-President, Research & Dean, School of Graduate Studies Research & Innovation Areas of expertise: Poetry, Prose, Photography, Text/Art Performance Art Areas of subject interest: Diasporic Arts, Race/Racialization, Indigenous Creative Practice, Literature, Queer spaces, Supervisions in: primarily IAMD but have supervised in DIGF, CCP, SFI, and INCD I have worked at OCAD University as Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Vice-President Research. My research is both text and art based, using the art-book and novel form as well as photography and installation to address disparate histories. I also deploy critical pedagogy as a form of engaging multiple diasporic voices. ### Works #### Transnational Border Shopping: Virtual Purchases, Body and Nation Published: October 7th 2009 #### On Public Readings and Pedagogy Published: October 7th 2008 #### Transubracination: How Writers of Colour Became CanLit Published: October 7th 2007 #### Brown Gazing: The Pedagogy and Practice of South Asian Writing in Canada Published: October 7th 2000 #### The Desisting Reader Published: October 7th 1993 ### Education #### PhD **Type:** English Literature University of Calgary ### Employment #### Dean of SGS, Vice-President Research **Type:** School of Graduate Studies / Office of Research Ontario College of Art and Design University ### Funding #### iCreate Cape Breton: fostering youth resilience in the face of slow violence **Type:** Grant youth resilience; arts-informed research; integrative science; community engagement; slow violence; social justice; emergent methodologies #### Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry **Type:** Grant research creation; artistic research; reconciliation; multiculturalism; race and art; interdisciplinary art; innovative art practice #### Centre for Innovation in Arts and Culture in Canada **Type:** Grant race; diversity; visual arts; arts; artist researcher #### Crces-2021-1 **Type:** Grant #### Crossing Media Crossing Canada: Performing the land we are **Type:** Grant performance art; indigenous knowledge; race; gender; environment; nation; decolonization; collaboration #### Beyond reconciliation: Indigenous arts, public engagement, and the aftermath of residential schools **Type:** Grant Indigenous studies; truth and reconciliation; redress; restitution; residential schools; public arts; performance; collaboration; relationality; sovereignty; decolonization; indigenization; arts-based research #### CRCES-Unknown **Type:** Grant CRCES-Unknown #### kinādās: walking about on the land **Type:** Grant Indigenous art; curatorial practice; art residencies; poetry; performance Indigenous art; curatorial practice; art residencies; poetry; performance #### Centre for Innovation in Culture and Arts in Canada **Type:** Grant multiculturalism, postcolonial theory, critical race studies, cultural diversity #### Collaborating with the Land: a social laboratory on performance, art, and learning **Type:** Grant art; land; Indigenous; racialization; performance; collaboration #### Crossing Media Crossing Canada: Performing the land we are **Type:** Grant performance art; indigenous knowledge; race; gender; environment; nation; decolonization; collaboration #### Digital Economy - Sustaining digital scholarship for sustainable culture **Type:** Grant #### SSHRC Institutional Grants **Type:** Grant #### Imagining Inclusion: Artists and Arts Workers on EDI in Practice **Type:** Grant artist; arts worker; artist-run-centre; Indigenous; BIPOC; IBPOC; critical race; inclusion; recognition; equity #### EDI Stipend **Type:** Grant #### Mapping quality of life and the culture of small cities **Type:** Grant qualitative indicators; mapping; small cities; quality of life; cultural development and organization; social development #### The intranation project: struggles, negotiations, conflicts in the arts **Type:** Grant postcolonial; international art; intranational politics; globalization; nations within nations #### Mapping quality of life and the culture of small cities **Type:** Grant qualitative indicators; mapping; small cities; quality of life; cultural development and organization; social development; the arts #### Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Innovation **Type:** Grant multiculturalism; postcolonial theory; critical race studies; cultural diversity #### A little distillery in Nowgong: a novel across media **Type:** Grant creative writing; novel; postcolonial; race; migration; globalization; multimedia #### Capturing the outcomes and impacts of publicly funded research **Type:** Grant #### kinadas: walking about on the land **Type:** Grant The proposed project will create a mobile working environment that privileges land-based research-creation and Indigenous knowledges, connected to experiences from Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities to create work crucial to an understanding of relational demographics. (TotalProjectCostCAD:74976; MRIFundingCAD:29500; MRI:) #### Community Engagement Processes in Entrepreneurial and Social Innovation **Type:** Grant Many of Canada s former resource towns are in a period of transition. The most successful often adaptively reuse the resources still available within the community: built resources as well as skills and cultural resources. This project develops a framework and toolkit of the creative processes in social innovation so that communities can reimagine themselves into vibrant relocalised networks that will create a more sustainable, healthy and reconnected world. In collaboration with ERA Architects program small, the project aims to develop community engagement specific to rural, resource towns in Canada to assist in the transition from resource-dependency to diversified, cultural economies. This project will include a review of best practice internationally and within Canada, to offer tailored, creative solutions for community engagement activities which identify and support the potential for diversified economic opportunities directly linked to the cultural heritage of the community and surrounding region. #### Social Lab on Poverty in South India **Type:** Grant Globally, poverty is a continuing problem that is not easily resolved. 650 million people in India live below the poverty line. In the south of India in the rural region around the city of Mysore, half of women are illiterate, and lack equal opportunity of employment. Although research has been done on technological and financial solutions to poverty, a key gap in the research is understanding the social inhibiting patterns (personal and social habits) that limit creative solutions toward change. My research will build off of a ten year established relationship with University of Mysore to advance the work into cutting-edge creative processes towards change that rely on local wisdom. The outcomes will offer rural communities new ideas on how to empower women in income generation, create a toolkit of processes for organizations locally and worldwide to deal with complex social problems like poverty, and advance academic knowledge in creativity, social innovation, and social habits.