Gender Studies Faculty News
-"Ontario and British Columbia Welfare Policy: Variants on a Neoliberal Theme," Little, M with Lynne Marks, Special Issue on Feminist State Theory, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Middle East and Africa, Duke University Press, Volume 30, Number 2, 2010, pp. 192-203.
-guest talk with Christina Marciano, "Why We Should Decriminalize Prostitution," Law and Public Policy Panel, Queen's University Law School, November 2010
-speaker at "Should Prostitution be Legalized?" panel discussion, Queen's Law & Public Policy club, November 2010
-keynote address, "Poverty: Let's Face It, Let's Change It", !nstigate 2010 Anti-Poverty Conference; October 2010
-plenary address, "Respecting Difference, Seeking Solidarity: Towards Sustainable Anti-Poverty Actions" !Nstigate: Anti-Povrety Conference, Kingston, October 2010
-guest lecture "Who's Hurting Now? A Race, Class and Gender Analysis of Neo-Liberal Welfare Reforms in Canada." Feminist Legal Studies Speakers Workshop, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, September 2010
Recent and Forthcoming Invited Speaking Engagements (Selected):
-"Plantation Futures: On Violence, The City and Black Cultures", UC Berkeley Department of Geography Colloquium (February, 2011) and University of Ottawa Feminist Colloquium Series, (February, 2011)
-"Urbicide, Genocide, Operation Remove Trash", Center for the Study of Women and Society, Spacetime Research Collective, Centre for Humanities City University of New York (October, 2010)
-"The Mortality of Place/Black Poetic Life. Or, Dying to Live Just Enough for the City", Gender Across Borders IV: A Conference on Gender and Globalisms, State University of New York at Buffalo (April, 2010)
-"Race, History, and Science—Reading The Past Anew", ’Black History Month Queen’s University (February, 2010)
Recent and Forthcoming Research Projects (Selected):
-"Science Quarrels Sculpture: The Politics of Reading Sarah Baartman." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature—A Special Issue: Sculpture, 43:2 (June 2010): 113-130.
-"Intellectual Life: Carole Boyce Davies’s Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones." Katherine McKittrick (in conversation with Carole Boyce Davies), MaComere: The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Writers and Scholars, (Volume 12, 2010)
-Dear Science: Black Cultures and The Promise of the Natural Sciences. (forthcoming).
-"Quiescent Change: Reading Barack Obama, Reading Race and Racism, Reading Whiteness."
(forthcoming).
-"Introduction: Dionne Brand’s Difficult Pleasures" by Rinaldo Walcott and Katherine McKittrick. in Dina Georgis, Katherine McKittrick and Rinaldo Walcott, eds., No Language Is Neutral: Essays on Dionne Brand, (forthcoming)
-"Axis: Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter and Being Human as Praxis" in Katherine McKittrick, ed. The Realization of the Living: On Sylvia Wynter and Being Human, (forthcoming)
Recent and Forthcoming Conferences (Selected):
-"Plantation Futures" Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide, University of California, Riverside, USA (March, 2011)
-"Racial Archives, Calculating Blackness", The Archive and Everyday Life Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton (May, 2010)
Recent Award
Gender Studies Teaching Award, 2009-2010, Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston
-paper: "Indigenous Feminism and the AIDS Pandemic," American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans, Nov 2010
-"Theorizing Native Studies" Symposium, Columbia University, Oct 2010
-Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization, University of Minnesota Press Fall 2011 as part of the First Peoples: New Directions book series
-Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature, co-edited anthology (with Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley) University Arizona Press Spring 2011, also as part of the First Peoples: New Directions book series
Sarita Srivastava: (on leave 2010-2012)
-Women’s Comics and Manga, Association for Asian Studies conference, Honolulu, March-April 2011
-"Masculinities in Canadian Literature" Jane Tolmie and Karis Shearer. Canadian Perspectives on Men and Masculinities.Ed. Jason Laker. OUP. 2011.(forthcoming)
-Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature, Co-editor/contributor with M. J. Toswell. Brepols 2010. 306 pp.
-"Public Scandal and Private Pain: Joseph's Quite Reasonable Doubts." Performance, Drama and Spectacle in the Medieval City. Ed. Catherine Emerson, Adrian Tudor, Mario Longtin. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. 253-65.
-presented "Students Engaging with Students: Showcasing Undergraduate Research in the Queen’s Learning Commons", 5th Annual Canadian Learning Common Conference, Queen’s University, June 2010
