Arts & ScienceStaff
Denise is the Departmental Administrator for the Department of Film and Media at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. Her duties include both financial and administrative tasks involving students, faculty and the public.
Özlem Atar is the Undergraduate Program Assistant in the Department of Film and Media. She is responsible for undergraduate student advising, course enrollments, and supporting the academic needs of Film and Media students.
She holds PhDs in Communication Sciences and Cultural Studies, as well as a BA and MA in English Language Teaching. Her research focuses on narratives of irregular migration and Muslim women’s post-9/11 fictions. She is particularly interested in the intersections of literature, popular culture, border and migration studies, gendered experiences of cross-border mobility, and migrant justice activism.
When she is not working or conducting research, Özlem writes non-fiction and translates between English and Turkish.
Helga Smallwood is the Graduate Program Assistant for the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies MA and PhD programs. Helga previously worked with undergraduate students in the Department of Film and Media, in the role of Interim Undergraduate Assistant, and in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, in the role of Interim Student Experience Coordinator. Before coming to Canada in 2020, she worked as a Researcher Development Officer at the University of York (UK), and prior to that has over 20 year’s experience in research and academic administration.