Darren Wershler was interim director of Milieux for the first half of 2023 and co-director of the Media and Materiality Research Cluster from 2015 – 2018. He is also the Director of the Residual Media Depot at Milieux and a co-founding member of the Media History Research Centre. Darren is an Associate Professor in English and the Concordia University Research Chair for Media & Contemporary Literature.
He recently co-authored The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies, with Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka, published in 2022.
Dr Wershler specializes in media history and media archaeology, with a particular interest in the material culture of analog and early digital technologies.