Dr. Lauren G. Khan |
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| Highest Degree | PhD in English Literature York University, Canada |
| Position | Assistant Professor |
| Faculty | School of Communication and Creative Industries |
| Department | Department of Creative Industries |
| Location | CUD HUB, Office 39 |
Position Assistant Professor
Email lauren.khan@cud.ac.ae
Location CUD HUB, Office 39
Highest Degree PhD in English Literature
York University, Canada
Faculty School of Communication and Creative Industries
Department Department of Creative Industries
Biography
Dr. Lauren G. Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Creative Industries at Canadian University Dubai. Prior to her appointment at CUD, she held the role of the University of Toronto’s inaugural SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Studies at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (2019–2021), where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses, led funded research groups, and contributed to curriculum development for the Master of Visual Studies (MVS) program. She earned her PhD in English Literature from York University, specializing in critical and creative writing and visual art practices, and holds a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Practice from York University’s Art History program.
Dr. Khan’s research examines how people make meaning from lived experience and translate that meaning into creative and cultural forms. Her work engages questions of culture, cultural practice, and knowledge production across transnational and global contexts and contributes to international conversations in research-creation and interdisciplinary humanities scholarship. Dr. Khan advances research-creation methodologies that integrate narrative practice, philosophy, cultural inquiry, and visual art, treating form as a site of knowledge production shaped by process, materiality, and time. She brings experiential and auto-ethnographic methods into dialogue with material and durational practices, including fermentation, as models for transformation, care, and ethical relation, with relevance to interdisciplinary, creative-industry, and public-facing contexts. Her research is particularly attentive to new genres and forms of storytelling that emerge through sustained, practice-based inquiry. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and books, including anthologies for Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge.
Dr. Khan has taught extensively at leading Canadian universities, including the University of Toronto, York University, McMaster University, and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). During her time at TMU, she taught in the School of Image Arts and the MFA Documentary Media program, where she worked with students on research methods in documentary media. She has served as a formal adviser to MFA and PhD Visual Art students and on graduate thesis committees, including at Goldsmiths, University of London and Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to her teaching and supervision, she has held senior academic leadership and administrative roles, including Executive Director, Lead Curator, and Artistic Director within the creative industries sector.
Dr. Khan’s research and teaching have generated sustained international engagement. She has delivered keynote and invited lectures at institutions including Brown University, the Royal College of Art (London), Dresden University of Technology, Ghent University, the University of Chicago, and the Sorbonne–Paris. As a curator, she has organized exhibitions and public programs across Canada and internationally, including projects with Images Festival (Toronto) and the Medical Museion (Copenhagen). She is committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange and has presented research in cross-sector settings that bring together artists, scientists, and cultural researchers. She is the founder and editor of First-Generation Student Club, a global writing and public-scholarship platform dedicated to collaborative knowledge-building and access in educational environments.
Dr. Khan’s research and teaching have been supported by competitive grants and fellowships and recognized through invited lectures, international research presentations, and funded curatorial and publishing projects. Her work has received major national recognition, including the Canadian Art Editorial Prize (2017), the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators (2018), and Fonderie Darling’s Transatlantic Curatorial Residency Prize in Paris and Montpellier (2019). She is a member of professional associations including the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Toronto Screenwriters Circle, and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). She also holds additional professional training in Learning Experience Design (LXD) from York University and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University.
Outside of her academic work, Dr. Khan values family life and engagement with international cultural contexts.
Dr. Lauren G. Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Creative Industries at Canadian University Dubai. Prior to her appointment at CUD, she held the role of the University of Toronto’s inaugural SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Studies at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (2019–2021), where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses, led funded research groups, and contributed to curriculum development for the Master of Visual Studies (MVS) program. She earned her PhD in English Literature from York University, specializing in critical and creative writing and visual art practices, and holds a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Practice from York University’s Art History program.
Dr. Khan’s research examines how people make meaning from lived experience and translate that meaning into creative and cultural forms. Her work engages questions of culture, cultural practice, and knowledge production across transnational and global contexts and contributes to international conversations in research-creation and interdisciplinary humanities scholarship. Dr. Khan advances research-creation methodologies that integrate narrative practice, philosophy, cultural inquiry, and visual art, treating form as a site of knowledge production shaped by process, materiality, and time. She brings experiential and auto-ethnographic methods into dialogue with material and durational practices, including fermentation, as models for transformation, care, and ethical relation, with relevance to interdisciplinary, creative-industry, and public-facing contexts. Her research is particularly attentive to new genres and forms of storytelling that emerge through sustained, practice-based inquiry. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and books, including anthologies for Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge.
Dr. Khan has taught extensively at leading Canadian universities, including the University of Toronto, York University, McMaster University, and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). During her time at TMU, she taught in the School of Image Arts and the MFA Documentary Media program, where she worked with students on research methods in documentary media. She has served as a formal adviser to MFA and PhD Visual Art students and on graduate thesis committees, including at Goldsmiths, University of London and Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to her teaching and supervision, she has held senior academic leadership and administrative roles, including Executive Director, Lead Curator, and Artistic Director within the creative industries sector.
Dr. Khan’s research and teaching have generated sustained international engagement. She has delivered keynote and invited lectures at institutions including Brown University, the Royal College of Art (London), Dresden University of Technology, Ghent University, the University of Chicago, and the Sorbonne–Paris. As a curator, she has organized exhibitions and public programs across Canada and internationally, including projects with Images Festival (Toronto) and the Medical Museion (Copenhagen). She is committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange and has presented research in cross-sector settings that bring together artists, scientists, and cultural researchers. She is the founder and editor of First-Generation Student Club, a global writing and public-scholarship platform dedicated to collaborative knowledge-building and access in educational environments.
Dr. Khan’s research and teaching have been supported by competitive grants and fellowships and recognized through invited lectures, international research presentations, and funded curatorial and publishing projects. Her work has received major national recognition, including the Canadian Art Editorial Prize (2017), the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators (2018), and Fonderie Darling’s Transatlantic Curatorial Residency Prize in Paris and Montpellier (2019). She is a member of professional associations including the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Toronto Screenwriters Circle, and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). She also holds additional professional training in Learning Experience Design (LXD) from York University and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University.
Outside of her academic work, Dr. Khan values family life and engagement with international cultural contexts.