Charity Marsh is Director of the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) and the Director of the Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs. She is Associate Professor in Creative Technologies and Interdisciplinary Programs in the Faculty of Media, Art, & Performance. From 2007 until 2018, Dr Marsh held a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Popular Music. During this time she produced and facilitated multiple workshops on creative audio and digital technologies and curated the Flatland Scratch Seminar and Workshop Series.

Along with her SSHRC-funded Global Indigenous Hip Hop project, Dr Marsh’s program of research also focuses on Girls Rock Regina and the impacts of community arts-based initiatives on expanding possibilities for women and non-binary people. In Summer 2020, she released a 30-minute documentary that she wrote, directed, and produced called, I’m Gonna Play Loud: Girls Rock Regina and the Ripple Effect, which focuses on the musical experiences and impacts of Girls Rock on the organizers, musicians, and volunteer women and non-binary folks involved. I’m Gonna Play Loud has been selected to screen in the Toronto International Short Film Festival, Rock This Town Festival in France, and will launch the 2021 Queer City Cinema Festival.

Dr Marsh has published extensively in the areas of Hip Hop Cultures in Canada, women in popular music, gender and technology, interactive media and performance, digital technologies, and community arts-based education and program development. Her co-edited collection, We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel, was published in October 2020 with McGill-Queen’s University Press.