AHCS/ IGSF Joint Hire in Sexuality and Media Studies
Job Candidates Jan-Feb 2016
For more information, contact Profs. Jenny Burman and Alanna Thain at feministmedia.hire@mcgill.ca
Thurs. Jan 21, 4pm
Dr. Bonnie Ruberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California
“Playing Queer: Queerness in Video Games beyond Representation”
Leacock 738
Bonnie Ruberg is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Interactive Media and Games Division at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley with certification in New Media and Gender & Women's Studies. Her research explores expressions of gender and sexuality in digital cultures with a focus on LGBTQ issues and video games. Bonnie is the lead organizer of the annual Queerness and Games Conference, the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Queer Game Studies (University of Minnesota Press), and the author of many articles on digital media and society. She also teaches new media, with an emphasis on social justice, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Ruberg is also available to meet with students at IGSF (3487 Peel St., second floor) from 2-3pm.
Thurs. Jan. 28, 5:15pm
Sara Mourad, University of Pennsylvania
“Rethinking Visibility: Female Sexuality in Postwar Lebanese Public Culture”
Leacock 429
Sara Mourad is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA in Political Science from the American University of Beirut and her MA in Communication from Penn. Her current research explores the relationship between sexuality and citizenship in Arab public culture. In her dissertation project, “The Boundaries of the Public: Mediating Sex in Postwar Lebanon,” she examines the discursive construction of the private/public divide in representations of sexuality in talk shows, films, music videos, digital publications, and memoirs. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Jadaliyya.
Dr. Mourad is also available to meet with students at IGSF (3487 Peel St., second floor) from 2-3pm.
Wed. Feb. 3, 5:30pm
Professor T.L. Cowan, Visiting Professor, Yale University
"Old Queens, New Screens: Sexual Subcultures, Digital Platforms and the Dynamics of Transmediation"
Leacock 429
T.L. Cowan is the 2015-16 Canadian Bicentennial Lecturer at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Digital Humanities Fellow at Yale University. She is also Chair of Experimental Pedagogies in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and co-facilitator of the Feminist Technology Network (FemTechNet). Cowan's work focuses on the cultural and intellectual economies and social lives of trans- feminist and queer grass-roots performance and media praxis. This work includes a monograph on translocal cabaret in Montreal, Mexico City and New York City, entitled Sliding Scale, as well as the Cabaret Commons, a user-generated digital archive for artists, audiences and researchers. Recent work is published in Transgender Studies Quarterly; Women's Studies Quarterly; Ada: A Journal of Gender; New Media and Technology; and ephemera: theory, politics and organization.
Dr. Cowan is also available to meet with students at IGSF (3487 Peel St., second floor) from 2-3pm.
Friday Feb. 5, 4:30pm
Professor Bobby Benedicto, University of Maryland
“The Place of the Dead: From Queer Ruins to Necroaesthetics”
Leacock 429
Bobby Benedicto is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) received the Ruth Benedict Honorable Mention Prize for Queer Anthropology and was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award for LGBT Studies. He is currently working on two new book projects: Queer Afterlives: Transgender Performance, Modern Ruins, and the Place of the Dead and Queer Necroaesthetics: Essays on Sex and Fatality. His other writings have appeared in Social Text, Antipode, GLQ, and Society & Space, among others.
Prof. Benedicto is also available to meet with students at IGSF (3487 Peel St., second floor) from 2-3pm.
Wed. Feb. 10, 5:30pm
Dr. Cait McKinney, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University
"Index Cards and the Promise of Information"
Leacock 429
Cait McKinney is the Media@McGill postdoctoral fellow. She examines LGBTQ social-movement media infrastructures, focusing on the late-20th century adoption of digital and online media in contexts such as Lesbian-Feminist and HIV/AIDS activism. Recent writing appears in Feminist Theory, the Radical History Review, and Little Joe: Queers and Cinema.
