Our people

The Director

David Leach, B.A. (UVic), M.A. (Queen’s), is the current Director of the Technology & Society Minor Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Writing. He is the former City Life editor at Monday Magazine and managing editor at explore whose award-winning freelance work has appeared in national and international publications. His research and teaching interests include how digital technology is transforming the arts, journalism, publishing, and education; copyright, creative commons and mash-up culture; the architecture, theory and practice of collaborative innovation and crowdsourced creativity; the social dynamics, politics and economics of communal societies and cooperative organizations, both physical and virtual; and the meeting ground (and tension) between media and ecological literacies. His courses often feature multimedia presentations and “readings”; guest experts and contemporary case studies; inquiry-driven, project-based assignments; and lively, wide-ranging debates, both in-class and online. His faculty website can be found here:

Program Assistant

Karen Erwin
idpassis@uvic.ca
250-472-5185

Advisory board

• Arthur Kroker, Department of Political Science, Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
• Ray Siemens, Department of English, Canada Research Chair in Digitial Humanities
• Andrew Schloss, Department of Music
• Daniel German, Department of Computer Science
• Lynne Van Luven, Department of Writing, Associate Dean of Fine Arts
• John Lutz, Department of History
• Rosaline Canessa, Department of Geography
• Jason Price, Faculty of Education
• Bryan Hiebert, Adjunct Professor of Education
• Liam Mitchell, PhD Candidate, CSPT Program