Courtney Squires

MA Student (she/her)
courtney.squires@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Aesthetics
  • Architecture
  • Modern/Contemporary

Areas of Interest

  • Phenomenology
  • Psychosensorial design
  • Interior architecture
  • Visual culture
  • Built environment

 

Biography

Selected Publications

  • Squires, Courtney. “Sensing the Past: Early Modern Apothecaries as Proto-Sensoria and their Influence on Contemporary Retail Environments.” Canvas Journal, edited by Iris Bednarski. 2025. Published March 2025.
  • Squires, Courtney. “Chiseling the Canon: Challenging Gendered Binaries of Desire in Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea.” DE/CIPHER: University of Toronto History of Art’s Tenth Undergraduate Symposium, edited by Charlotte Leong,
    Maya Smart, Minnie Koppenheffer, and Dr. Colin Murray.
  • Squires, Courtney. “Small Bronze Sirens of Renaissance Venice: A Feminist Critique on the Fetishization of the Mermaid.” Canvas Journal, edited by Rachael Barker. Published November 2023.

Education

BA, McGill University

Presentations

"The Immersive Architecture of Luxury: An Analysis of Phenomenological and Multi-sensory Design in Rennaï's Retail Interior", Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada: Ottawa, Ontario, May 27-30, 2025
“Chiseling the Canon: Challenging Gendered Binaries of Desire in Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea”, DE/CIPHER: University of Toronto History of Art’s Tenth Undergraduate Symposium, University of Toronto, March 16, 2024

Cohort

  • 2025-2026