Daniel Keyes

Assistant Professor, Department of Critical Studies

Daniel Keyes is an Assistant Professor at UBC Okanagan where he is the chair of the Cultural Studies undergraduate program. His research explores the intersection between media and performance and is informed by his dissertation on the performance of testimonials on daytime talk shows in the mid-1990. Recent research focuses on a) filmic representation of the first Gulf War and b) the problematic expressions of cultural nationalism in 1950s theatre and pageant productions in the Okanagan in terms of the production of whiteness and emergent Canadian nationalism.