Dr. Charity Marsh
Dr Charity Marsh is Director of the IMP Labs and Associate Professor in Creative Technologies and Interdisciplinary Programs in the Faculty of Media, Art, & Performance.
From 2007 until 2018, Dr Marsh held a Tier II CRC in Interactive Media and Popular Music. During this time Dr Marsh was awarded two CFI grants and matching funds to create the Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs. As Director of the IMP Labs, Dr Marsh has produced and facilitated multiple workshops on creative audio and digital technologies; she has curated the Flatland Scratch Seminar and Workshop Series; developed supports for remote communities with hip hop programming; engaged in numerous collaborative hip hop and interactive media projects with many community partners. As part of the IMP Labs’ Community Hours and Workshops Program, Dr Marsh and her IMP Labs’ research team facilitate knowledge sharing and mentoring around popular music, popular culture, sound/audio cultures, and their associated technologies.
Along with her SSHRC-funded Global Indigenous Hip Hop project, Dr Marsh’s program of research also focuses on Girls Rock Regina and the impacts of community arts-based initiatives on expanding possibilities for women and non-binary people. In Summer 2020, she released a 36-minute documentary that she wrote, directed, and produced called, I’m Gonna Play Loud: Girls Rock Regina and the Ripple Effect, which focuses on the musical experiences and impacts of Girls Rock on the organizers, musicians, and volunteer women and non-binary folks involved. Since the lockdown related to Covid-19 began in Saskatchewan during March 2020, Dr Marsh began co-hosting a weekly radio show for 91.3 FM CJTR called Imagine This Music! along with her 4 and 6 year old children.
Dr Marsh has published extensively in the areas of Hip Hop Cultures in Canada, women in popular music, gender and technology, queer musicking, interactive media and performance, digital technologies, and community arts-based education and program development. Her co-edited collection, We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel, was published in October 2020 with McGill-Queen’s University Press.