Supervisor: Scott Morgensen
Research interests: world building, future imagining, science fiction fantasy, accessible and creative theorizing

Supervisor: Katherine McKittrick
Research interests: Queering and resistance politics in West Africa with a specific focus on Nigeria and Ghana. I am interested in how the youth in these countries are deploying hip hop to contest and resist queer criminalization, brutalization, and death; and how they are using their music to assert queer humanity, freedom, and identities.

A wife and mother, a social Justice advocate and feminist.

Supervisor: Jane Tolmie
Research interests: Comics and Sequential Art; Fat Studies; Art History

Mollie Cronin is a cartoonist, illustrator, arts writer, and educator from Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS).  She received a BA in Art History from NSCAD University in 2015 before accidentally becoming a cartoonist that same year. Under the pen-name "Art Brat Comics", Cronin creates comics and illustrations celebrating fat bodies, cleverly clawing at systems that uphold fatphobia and intolerance. Her work also uses humour to explore gendered dynamics in relationships, grief and loss, and the realities and particularities of living in a small town/city. Her work has appeared on television shows, in books, as tattoos, and as a monthly strip comic in an Alt-Weekly newspaper. Cronin has taught several comic courses in the extended studies program at NSCAD and has lectured at Dalhousie and U of T on the same topics. Her thesis will focus on the representations of fat femininity in comics, exploring depictions of fat feminized characters such as Cathy, Marvel's Big Bertha, Lee Marrs' "Pudge: Girl Blimp" and more. 

Supervisor: Margaret Little
Research interests: Feminist pedagogy, conscientization, higher education, intersectional feminism, I-EDIAA, neoliberal institutions

I am a Queen's 2022 BAH Gender Studies graduate and current MA student. I also currently work at Queen's in Residence Life & Services and have a background in student affairs work. 

My Master's research focuses on implementing feminist pedagogy and I-EDIAA in non-academic spaces within higher education. Specifically, I examine how we can restructure programming, workshops, and student-staff training at the neoliberal university using feminist pedagogical principles. I am also interested in looking at how we can better teach students about I-EDIAA outside of the classroom to create more well-informed, educated young adults - particularly at a neoliberal institution like Queen's. I am excited to utilize my unique position as a staff member at the university to inform my research and also apply my research to my workplace!