NATALIE LOVELESS
Natalie S. Loveless teaches in the department of Art and Design (History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture) at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she also directs the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory (researchcreation.ca) funded by the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS). Her forthcoming book, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation (Duke University Press), examines debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means – and why it matters – to make and teach art research-creationally in the North American university today. In fall 2018 she will begin a visiting professorship at Concordia University (Montreal) at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC), and she is currently co-lead of Speculative Energy Futures, a multi-year project that is part of the Just Powers initiative led by Dr. Sheena Wilson and funded in part by the Future Energy Systems CFREF and a SSHRC Insight grant (justpowers.ca).