The Dirty Methods Podcast

The Dirty Methods podcast series is a joint project of University of Toronto’s Creative Labour Critical Futures (CLCF), the UTSC Critical Digital Methods Initiative, and the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI). The series was recorded in 2024-25 and prepared for broadcast in 2025. It is hosted by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, former Interim Director of KMDI, and Principal Investigator for CLCF. It’s also featured on and supported by the Amplify Podcast Network, available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episodes

  • 1

    Mark Campbell on Collaboration and Creativity

    Episode 06

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    2026

    This episode features Dr. Mark V. Campbell and host Mary Elizabeth Luka, both from University of Toronto. In it, we talk about archives-based research, building collaborations and community, and how research-creation, exhibition, and other modes of creative responses to academic understandings can be used.

  • 2

    Mél Hogan on Feminist, Queer, and Decolonial Approaches

    Episode 05

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    2026

    This episode features Drs. Mél Hogan from Queen’s University, and Mary Elizabeth Luka in conversation about the ethical and values-based challenges of grant proposal writing, and a variety of research projects from feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches. We also focus on creative methods and research-creation in this episode.

  • 3

    Consuelo Vasquez, Mélanie Millette, and Resistant Methods

    Episode 04

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    2026

    Bonjour and soyez attentifs. This French-edition episode features Drs. Consuelo Vásquez and Mélanie Millette from Université du Québec a Montréal. They talk about the particularities of academic settings and how resistance is articulated within institutions – scholarly or otherwise. Mélanie and Consuelo also discuss pedagogical approaches they have explored in relation to method, and research rooted in values-inflected epistemologies.

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    Annette Markham on Being a Methodologist

    Episode 03

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    2026

    This episode features internationally renowned ethics and methods scholar Dr. Annette Markham from Utrecht University as well as host Mary Elizabeth Luka. We talk about what it means to be a methodologist, the phasic pursuit of research, wide scope methods and reflexive criticality.

  • 5

    Nataleah Hunter-Young and Research Creation

    Episode 02

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    2026

    This episode features Dr. Nataleah Hunter-Young, originally at Western University and now at University of Toronto, and host Mary Elizabeth Luka. We talk about formative processes, fuzzy relationships between research creation and practice, as well as ethical research methods and accountability in complex environments.

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    The Fourchettes

    Episode 01

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    2026

    This episode features Drs. Alison Harvey from York University, Tamara Sheppard from University of Calgary, Mélanie Millette from Université du Québec a Montréal, and Mary Elizabeth Luka, some of the members of the research group The Fourchettes. In this episode, we talk about how The Dirty Methods project came to be almost a decade ago, the far-from-linear approach and collaborative processes we have used over the years, and what a dream research institute could look like.

CLCF Members

  • Mary Elizabeth Luka

    Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Luka

    CLCF Co-Director & Associate Professor

    Dr. MaryElizabeth (“M.E.”) Luka is PI and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and Associate Professor, Arts & Media Management, at University of Toronto, where they examine modes and meanings of co-creative production and distribution in the digital age for arts, culture, and media.