Hubert Alain

Pronouns : Any pronouns 

Current Position : Ph.D Candidate in communication studies at Université de Montréal, Artefact Lab, Dr. Ghislain Thibault (supervisor) 

Major Scholarship : Hubert Alain is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 

Contact : hubert.alain@umontreal.ca 

Hubert is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at Université de Montréal and a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholar (SSHRC). His research is concerned with counter-histories and anarchives of Québec nationalism in the 1960s, especially in relation to energy and river infrastructures, as well as to popular media cultures. Working with queer and decolonial perspectives, his work addresses relationships between energy, territories, affects and sexuality. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in art history and a master’s degree in communication studies, from McGill University. He has published articles in Cultural Studies, Green Humanities, and COMMposite (forthcoming). He is affiliated with the Artefact Research Lab in media studies and with the Grierson Research Group in media, infrastructure and environment. He is involved in grassroot queer and ecological activism.

Projects

Thesis: Vegetal Matter: the Conflicting Ecologies of Corn Agriculture from a New Materialist Perspective, McGill University, 2016 

Hubert’s master research, supervised by Dr. Darin Barney, was concerned with the political imaginaries and materialities of corn monoculture biotechnologies and of alternative forms of corn agricultures (permacultures, ancestral seed saving).  

Publications

Alain, Hubert. “Control: the Extractive Ecology of Corn Monoculture,” Cultural Studies, Vol. 31 No 2–3 (2017), 232–252. 

Alain, Hubert. “Vagabond: the Trans-Species Ecologies of Plant/Human Encounters,” Green humanities, Vol. 2 (2017), 53–80.