Dr. Douglas Tewksbury
Associate Professor
Dunleavy Hall, Third Floor, Room 334
Phone: 716.286.8338
Fax: 716.286.8061
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Biography
Dr. Douglas Tewksbury, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Niagara University. He teaches courses in media studies, environmental studies, cultural studies, and film.
Dr. Tewksbury is an interdisciplinary media artist who commonly works with sound, electronics, photo/video, and other media. His ongoing body of creative work in recent years has focused on environmental themes and humans’ relationship to the natural world, and the climate crisis, in particular.
Dr. Tewksbury’s creative practice consists of composed, experimental, and improvised media works, particularly in his sound studies, where he often works with obsolete, antiqued, and broken media and recording technologies. He has released numerous collections of compositions, including 2024’s long-form 4x work Floes: Volumes I-IV (2024; Tridek Records), Brutes and Brutes Remixed (2022/23; Hush Hush Records), Paths (2021; Geertruida Records), and many other singular and collaborative works. He has developed sound and media installations for various museums, galleries, and public spaces, including the Sarasota Art Museum, the City of Hamilton, the Inverness County Centre for the Arts, and others.
Dr. Tewksbury’s research focuses on media studies approaches to environment, culture, and technology. He is particularly interested in oil and fossil fuel cultures, climate change deniers, oil activism, and online communities. He has researched a variety of areas of media, cultural, and environmental studies, with work published in journals including The Journal of Popular Culture; The Journal of Canadian Communication; Communication, Capitalism, and Critique; The American Communication Journal; Surveillance & Society, and others.
He has been selected for fellowships/residencies at The Arctic Circle Residency, The Banff Centre, the Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, and others. He is a Fulbright alumnus, having held the Fulbright Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. He holds a Ph.D. from the College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. from Suffolk University, and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.