Cameron Macdonell
Assistant Professor
The Creative School
School of Interior Design
Toronto, Ontario
cmacdonell@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 556928
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Cameron Macdonell is a historian of art, architecture, and interior design. He focuses on the construction of meaning through iconographical, phenomenological, and psychological approaches to interiority, especially the narratology of textual environments and the ritualization of built environmen...
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Cameron Macdonell is a historian of art, architecture, and interior design. He focuses on the construction of meaning through iconographical, phenomenological, and psychological approaches to interiority, especially the narratology of textual environments and the ritualization of built environments. His first book, Ghost Storeys (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), unfolds a narrative of physiological and psychological trauma in the highly ritualized spaces of a Gothic Revival church, contextualizing the architect’s Gothic literature to present revivalist architecture as the phantom limb pain of an irrecuperable past. Cameron’s current book project, “Haunts: Citing/Siting/Sighting the Ghost in British and American Architecture, ca. 1750 and Beyond,” traces the ghost as a metaphysical and metaphorical figure (of speech) haunting the autobiographical interiors of houses architects design for themselves. And his next major research project explores the afterlives of artifacts (from discrete objets d’art to reclaimed materials) within the interior designs of Canadian houses.
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