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YORK FINE ARTS WELCOMES FIVE NEW PROFESSORS
Suzie S.F. Young is a film scholar and cultural theorist specializing in Asian cinema, the horror genre, and feminism and popular culture. She has lectured widely on a variety of cultural topics including the New Wave Cinemas of the three Chinas, television and exilic identities of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, and the work of Canadian director David Cronenberg. Originally from Hong Kong, Dr. Young was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of California. She taught film theory and history at Trent University, University of Manitoba and University of California, San Diego prior to joining York's Department of Film & Video.
With the appointment of ethnomusicologist Robert Simms, the Department of Music continues to strengthen its highly-regarded world music program. A graduate of the Universities of Manitoba, York and Toronto, Dr. Simms' talents span both western and world music. He has trained in a wide range of world music traditions including Persian setar (classical lute), Japanese shakuhachi (classical reed flute), South Indian mrdangam (drum) and veenu (flute), Ghanaian Ewe drumming, Arabic 'ud (classical lute), flamenco guitar, riqq (frame drum), and Gambian kora and tantango drumming. Before turning his attention to academic pursuits, he was a professional guitarist in the rock music business. He also performs as a jazz pianist and as accompanist to several dance and theatre companies.
The Department of Theatre is welcoming two new professors. Paul Lampert, an alumnus of the National Theatre School and York University's Graduate Program in Theatre, has worked extensively as a director, actor, playwright and teacher in Canada and Europe. His many credits include six seasons with the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, three seasons with the Blyth Festival and two years as associate director of Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon. In the late 1980s he worked exclusively in Europe with such varied companies as Poland's Movement Theatre BLIK and the International Theatre in Vienna, returning to Poland in 1994 to direct the national premiere of David Mamet's Oleanna at the Stary Theatre, Krakow. While pursuing his MFA at York, he directed the Canadian premiere production of Nicky Silver's Raised in Captivity, which went on to the International Student Theatre Festival in Berlin in 1998. Prior to his appointment to the acting program in York's theatre department, Professor Lampert served as artistic director of the George Brown Theatre School in Toronto.
Theatre designer and architect Teresa Przybylski brings to York a wealth of professional experience gained in Canada and Europe. A graduate of Master's programs in fine arts and engineering/architecture in Krakow, Poland, she is well-known for her work in opera, theatre, dance and film. She has designed productions for many leading stages including the Stratford Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Young People's Theatre, Tarragon Theatre and Le ThÈ’tre franÁais de Toronto, and the National Arts Centre. Her most recent projects are set design for Titus Andronicus in the current Stratford Festival season and Crimson Veil opening in July at Factory Theatre, Toronto. She is a 15-time nominee and recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
Photographer Katherine Knight comes to York's Department of Visual Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she has been Dean of the Faculty of Art since 1996. Nationally recognized for her photographic and installation work, which often incorporates black and white stills, text and archival material, Professor Knight has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows across Canada and in the United States. Her works are found in many public and corporate collections including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Banff Centre for the Arts and The Canada Council Art Bank. She is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the University of Victoria, and has been a resident artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She is also a seasoned arts administrator through her work with the Canada Council and the Women in Focus gallery, Vancouver.
York University's Faculty of Fine Arts is one of the largest and most comprehensive institutions for fine arts education in North America. The only program of its kind in Ontario, it brings together more than 2,300 students and 145 faculty working in all areas of fine arts practice and scholarship: dance, design, film and video, music, theatre, visual arts and interdisciplinary fine arts cultural studies.
For further information, please contact:
Brigitte Kleer
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