Supervisor: Trish Salah
Research interests:  Trans Studies, Storytelling, Community-Based Research, Literature

Markus Harwood-Jones (he/they) is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies, specializing in trans studies, literature, and community-based research. He is the author of several novels including Confessions of a Teenage Drag King and The Haunting of Adrian Yates, and co-producer of the film Mosaic: A Documentary & Dialogue. Markus lives in Toronto with his husband, their platonic co-parent, and their beloved toddler. He can be found on TikTok and Instagram under the handle @MarkusBones, or via his website: www.Mharwoodjones.com. 

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Teaching (2022-23)
GNDS 120 Women, Gender, Difference (Fall 2022)
GNDS 480/822 Special Topics: Feminisms, Class, and Economic Justice

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Teaching (2022-23)
GNDS 120 [Online] Women, Gender, Difference (Winter 2023)
GNDS 211 Feminist Histories (Fall 2022)
GNDS 311 Feminist Thought (Fall 2022)

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Teaching (2022-23)
GNDS 125 [Online] Gender, Race and Popular Culture (Fall 2022)
GNDS 125 Gender, Race and Popular Culture (Winter 2023)
GNDS 215 [Online] Introduction to Sexual and Gender Diversity (Fall 2022)
GNDS 380 Special Topics: Gender, Race and Reproductive Justice (Winter 2023)

Cross-appointed to the Department of English; Affiliated with Cultural Studies

DPhil (Performance and Gender Studies), Oxford University
PhD (English and Comparative Literature), Harvard University
AM (English and Comparative Literature), Harvard University
MA (English), Yale University
BA, Yale University

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Research interests: comics and sequential art, feminism, queer theory, theatre and performance, reproductive justice, science fiction, fantasy, disability studies, art activism

This CFP for a special issue in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal  _Humanities_ on feminism and comics studies is now open, guest edited by Jane Tolmie, see: Special Issue Information

Jane Tolmie (PhD Harvard, DPhil Oxon, Rhodes Scholar) is a medievalist and literature and comics specialist with research interests in: fan studies, performance and theatre (medieval and modern); sequential art; science fiction and fantasy; feminist, queer, and gender theory; autobiography/self-narration; and social justice.   Her current research projects engage with critical disability studies and storytelling, and reproductive justice in popular culture. She supervises MA and PhD students in a range of disciplines including Gender Studies, English, Cultural Studies, and Education.

She is a poet, feminist activist, blogger (HuffPo), and a member of Informed Opinions. She regularly contributes interviews on topics in feminist studies and popular culture, e.g. “Do trigger warnings create a safe space for students, or coddle them?” Interview. CBC Radio The Sunday Edition. 29 November, 2015.

In connection with her work in popular culture, in this case the practice of fanvidding, she is an advocate of public and academic engagement with fandom; see appendix O of a case brought before the U.S. Copyright office at the library of Congress in 2011.

She is cross-appointed to English and affiliated with the graduate program in Cultural Studies.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming Autumn 2024, "Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles: Teaching Queer Caregiving Memoir on Disability, and Pedagogy as Resistance." Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics.

Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry.  Ed. Jane Tolmie (University Press of Mississippi, 2022).
 
Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art. Ed. Jane Tolmie. (University Press of Mississippi, 2013). Nominated for 2014 Eisner award.         
 
Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature. Ed. Jane Tolmie and M. J. Toswell. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe. (Brepols Press, 2010). 

The Book of Vole is an ongoing poetry/art project in 2023 and the only creative project included here, done in collaboration with Canadian artist Perry Rath and discussed briefly here.

• Jane Tolmie and Perry Rath, collaborative art/poetry exhibit at the Vancouver Art Institute,  April 3-June 29, 2016.
• Jane Tolmie. “Book of Vole (excerpts).” Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Ed.Sandra Kasturi and Helen Marshall. ChiZine 2015
• “Experiments in Autobiography: The Book of Vole (excerpts).” Strange Horizons. 2013.

“York: The Slaughter of the Innocents." Ed. & Intro. The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama. Ed. Christina M. Fitzgerald and John T. Sebastian. Broadview. 2013.

"Masculinities in Canadian Literature." Jane Tolmie and Karis Shearer. Canadian Perspectives on Men and Masculinities. Ed. Jason Laker. OUP: 2010.

"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.

"Modernism, Memory and Desire:  Queer Cultural Production in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home."  Topia:  Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 22, 2009.

“Eve in the Looking-Glass:  Interpretive Labour in the Anglo-Norman Adam play." lectio difficilior:  European Online Journal of Feminist Exegesis. 2, 2009.

"Silence in the Sewing Chamber: Le Roman de Silence."  French Studies.  63:1, 2009.

“Medievalism and the Fantasy Heroine.” Journal of Gender Studies.15:2, 2006. 145-59

“Goading, Ritual discord and the deflection of blame.”  Journal of Historical Pragmatics:  Ritual Language Behaviour.  Vol.4., No.2. 2003. 287-301.

 “Framing Persuasion:  Eve and the Fall of the Verbal Order.”  Mediaevalia:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide.  Vol. 20, 2001. 93-118

“Dave Duncan.”  Dictionary of Literary Biography:  Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers. Ed. Douglas Ivison. A Bruccoli Clar Layman Book, The Gale Group, 2002.  75-90

“Tongue in Cheek :  Treating Cannibalism in Science Fiction.” Wit’s End.  1995.  6-9

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Research interests: transgender/trans of colour theory, literature, and cultural productions; psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of race/gender/culture; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights 

Trish Salah’s research, teaching and supervision areas include postcolonial/decolonial, feminist, trans and queer poetics, literatures and theory, transnational transgender cultural production, psychoanalysis and affect theory, sex workers' rights movements, and un/popular cultures. Her current projects are Towards a Trans Minor Literature, an inquiry into the aesthetic and political projects of trans, transsexual, genderqueer and two-spirit writers, and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 2, a poetic exploration of colonial sexologies and phantasies of place-based sexuality.

Her first book of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, investigated the inscription of diasporic trans and queer subjectivities and the social, rhetorical and desiring labour of minority community formation. Her second book, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1, employs the lyric as a lens to read transgender fantasies encoded in feminist, autobiographical, anthropological, sexological and psychoanalytic archives. 

Selected Publications
Books
Lyric Sexology: Volume I. New York, NY: Roof Books, 2014. (2nd Edition. Montreal: Metonymy Press, 2017.)

Wanting in Arabic: Poems. Toronto: Tsar Publications, 2002. (2nd Edition. Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2013.)

Edited Journal Issues
Arc Poetry Magazine. “Polymorphous per Verse: Special Issue on Trans, Two Spirit and Non-Binary Writers.” Co-edited with Ali Blythe. 94 (Winter 2021).

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. “Special Issue on Trans* Cultural Production.” Co-edited with Julian Carter and David Getsy. 1.4 (Dec. 2014).

Canadian Review of American Studies. “Special Issue on Anne Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees.” Co-edited with Sara Matthews and Dina Georgis. 35.2 (2005).

Articles/Chapters
“Transgender and Trans Genre Writing.” The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction. Joshua Miller, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2021: 174-195.

“Returning to Schreber: Trans Literature as Psychoanalysis.” Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies. Oren Gozlan, ed. New York: Routledge, 2018: 169-180.

“What Does Tiresias Want?” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 4.4 (Fall 2017): 632-638.

“‘Time Isn’t After Us’: Some Tiresian Durations.” Somatechnics 7.1 (March 2017): 16-33.

“Reflections on Trans Organizing, Trade Unionism and Radical Communities.” Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader. D. Irving and R. Raj, eds. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2014: 149-167.

“Introduction.” with Julian Carter and David Getsy. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 1.4. Ed. Julian Carter, David Getsy and Trish Salah. (2014): 469-481.

“Notes on the Subaltern.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. “Inaugural Issue: Keywords for Trans* Studies.” 1.1-2 (2014): 297-305.

“From Fans to Activists: Popular Feminism enlists in ‘The War on Terror’.” Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in post-9/11 Cultural Practice. Lisa Taylor and Jasmin Zine, eds. Routledge, 2014: 152-71.

“Working for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle.” with J. Clamen and K. Gillies. Selling Sex: Canadian Academics, Advocates and Sex Workers in Dialogue. Emily van der Meulen, et al. eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013: 113-129.

“Backlash to the Future: Re/Inscribing Transsexuality as Fundamentalism.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (Spring 2011): 212-222.  

“In Lieu of a Transgender Poetics.” Contemporary Feminist Poetics in Canada. Ed. Kate Eichorn and Barbara Godard. Spec. Issue of Open Letter. 13.9 (Summer 2009): 34-6. 

“After Cissexual Poetry.” Contemporary Queer Poetics. Ed. Julian Brolaski. Spec. Issue of Aufgabe: Journal of Poetry. 8 (Summer 2009): 282-298. 

“What’s all the Yap? Reading Mirha-Soleil Ross’ Performance of Activist Pedagogy.” Spoken Word Performance. Ed. Theresa Cowan and Ric Knowles. Spec. Issue of Canadian Theatre Review. 130 (Spring 2007): 64-71. 

Prose/Poetry/Creative Nonfiction
“Forgetting" and "Small movements," Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics 17 (January, 2021): 151-152.

“Manifest,”, “What’s to come”, “Love poem.” We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Eds. Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam. Nightboat Books, 2020: 398-404.

“Some Complete,” “Window or Bell,” “Prayer Glitch,” “Blurred Witness” “Trans +Queer Voices” Ed. Zeyn Joukhadar, Special Issue of Mizna. 20.2 (2020): 49-52.

“Gemmayze,” Bomb Cyclone Magazine (Jan. 2020) Web. 

“Parallel Advances” The Puritan. 47 (December 2019) Web.

“guileless,” Arc Poetry Magazine. 89 (Summer 2019)

“provocations,” “Turning Looks (twice removed)” and “femme for femme,” Femmescapes. 5 August 2019 

“Vaults then.” Thirteen: New Collected Poems from LGBTQI2S Writers in Canada. Writer’s Union of Canada. (2019)

“Play Animals.” Cordite Poetry Review. 88 (2019)

“Currently in stock,” “Changes to section six,” and “Palm Reading.” Action, Spectacle 1.1 (2018)

“What I remember.” Prism International 57.1 (2018) (2 pages).

“Dragging Badly Behind” and “Femmesub.” Anomaly 26 (Winter 2018) (5 pages). Web.

“Poem for Suhair Hammad.” Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. Edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan. New York: Or Books, 2018: 151-152.

“Croesus, at least in name,” “Ripple, Angel Quake,” “Subclinical Routine #11” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. 22.1 (2017): 11-13, 85-86, 155-158.

“It Can Grow!!!” Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. Edited by Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick. New York: Topside Press, 2017: 62-71.

“Third Meaning, 3rd” Vetch: a magazine of Trans poetry and poetics. 3 (Fall 2016): 17-20.

“Halving and Being” Sinister Wisdom. 101 (Summer 2016): 58-63.

Research interests: cinema and media arts, cosmopolitanism, gendered spaces and the city, and Cuban cinema and visual culture

Faculty bio

PhD (Interdisciplinary Studies), University of British Columbia
MA (English), University of British Columbia 
BFA (Creative Writing), University of British Columbia

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Research interests: Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek is a poet and scholar. Her 100 Days, a collection of poetry on how to remember the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, won the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the INDIEFAB Book of the Year (Poetry) Award. It was also nominated for several writing prizes. Juliane’s most recent academic articles and contributions include: “What Choices Between Nightmares: Intersecting Local, Global and Intimate Stories of Pain in Peacebuilding” Peace Building and the Arts (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2020); and “Conversations at the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writers Talk”, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (2020) and “Treachery as Colonial Intent: A Poetic Response” Critical African Studies (2022); and “States of Being: The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman”, Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning and Researching While Black, edited by Awad Ibrahim et al (U of Toronto Press, 2022). A is for Acholi, a poetry collection, was published by Wolsak and Wynn (2022). The last of the trilogy of poetry books, Song & Dread, is forthcoming in spring 2023 with Talon Books. She is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Program at Queen’s University, joint appointed in Gender Studies and English.

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PhD: Anthropology (Women’s Studies)

Areas of Research / Publication

Queer studies; anthropology of sexuality, race, and colonialisms; queer and feminist ethnography; feminist and queer pedagogies; community-based and activist research methods.

Research Interests

I received my doctorate in anthropology and women’s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As an ethnographer and community-engaged researcher, I examine the formation and negotiation of relations across differences within cultural and social movements. My work in queer anthropology contributes to studies of sexuality’s racial, colonial, and global formations, as these connect such fields as Indigenous studies, critical ethnic studies, and American studies, and their articulations with my primary fields of anthropology, sexuality studies, and gender studies. I commit my teaching to feminist and queer pedagogies that center anti-racism and anti-colonialism, and I bridge teaching and scholarship through writerly and activist collaborations that support critical learning in the academy and in political communities.

My first book, Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization

(University of Minnesota Press, 2011) examines the role of appropriation of indigeneity, white racial formation, and settler colonialism in the formation of U.S. queer politics. The book interprets ethnographic and historical cases in relation to the activist knowledges generated among Two-Spirit / Indigenous LGBTQ people and allied queer/trans of color activists. Spaces between Us received the Ruth Benedict Book Prize – Honorable Mention from the Association for Queer Anthropology. My current project examines the methodological contributions of queer and feminist ethnography to anthropology and gender and sexuality studies. I am participating concurrently in community-engaged research projects that document activist knowledge within multi-issue organizing and interpret the work of political relationships across differences.

I am a co-editor of the collections “Contested Histories of Racialization and the Legacies of Sir John A. Macdonald” (Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 3:1, 2016), “Karangatia: Calling Out Gender and Sexuality in Settler Societies” (Settler Colonial Studies 2:2, 2012) and Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature(University of Arizona Press, 2011). I have published essays in such areas as pedagogies in gender studies, ethnographic methods, colonial masculinity, white settler queer primitivism, settler colonialism and Indigenous politics, and Indigenous HIV/AIDS activism.  I served as President of the Association for Queer Anthropology (2010-12) and as Co-Editor of Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (2014-17). I currently sit on the Board of Managing Editors of American Quarterly and the advisory board of American Ethnologist.

At Queen’s I served six years as Graduate Chair in Gender Studies (2012; 2015-19) during which time I supported the launch of the Gender Studies PhD Program. I co-directed the SNID - Studies in National and International Development lecture series (2010-12) and I currently serve as co-convener of the Queen’s Feminist Ethnography Network, which connects faculty, postgraduate, and student researchers who study and practice feminist ethnography and related methods. In Gender Studies I teach graduate courses on ethnography and activist research, and undergraduate courses on research methods, masculinities, and HIV/AIDS movements.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications (selected)

Review: Written By the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities. By Lisa Tatonetti. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. p. 293. Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming 2022).

Accountable Reasoning. Comment: Grant Arndt, “The Indian’s White Man: Indigenous Knowledge, Mutual Understanding, and the Politics of Indigenous Reason.” Current Anthropology 63(1): 22-23 (2022).

Heteronormativity. In Keywords in Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective (ed.). New York: New York University Press, 2021.

Encountering Indeterminacy: Colonial Contexts and Queer Imagining. Cultural Anthropology 31(4): 608-617 (2016).

Conditions of Critique: Responding to Indigenous Resurgence within Gender Studies. TSQ 3(1-2): 192-201 (2016).

Graduate Supervision

I currently accept supervisions in the Gender Studies PhD and MA programs, in the following areas: queer/trans studies; sexual and gender politics in transnational perspective; Indigenous studies; colonial studies; studies of HIV/AIDS (histories, cultures, politics); masculinity studies; ethnography; oral history; community-based research; activist research.

Current and Recent Graduate Supervisions

PhD supervisions

Adria-Kurchina-Tyson, Gender Studies PhD Program

Dorcas Okyere, Gender Studies PhD Program (co-supervised with Allison Goebel)

Amanda Watson, Gender Studies PhD Program (co-supervised with Trish Salah)

Geraldine King, Cultural Studies PhD Program

A.W. Lee (PhD 2015, Cultural Studies) (co-supervised with Kip Pegley)
Dissertation:  Performing ManChyna: Unmapping Promissory Exaltation, Multicultural Eugenics and the New Whiteness

Karl Hardy (PhD 2015, Cultural Studies)
Dissertation:  Unsettling Hope: Settler Colonialism and Utopianism

MA supervisions

Kanonhsyoone Janice Hill, Gender Studies MA Program

Sonny Cantalini, Gender Studies MA Program

Sara Shivafard, Gender Studies MA Program (co-supervised with Sari van Anders)

Michael Young (MA 2021, Gender Studies)
Major Research Paper: “Masculintimacies: Relations, Relationality, and Processes of Becoming in Beam & Hemphill's Brother to Brother and Scofield's Thunder Through My Veins”

Nat Rambold (MA 2021, Gender Studies)
Major Research Paper: “‘Our Homo and Native Land’: Colonial Legacies of Queer Masculinity in the Canadian Nation-State”

Steven Watt (MA 2020, Gender Studies)
Major Research Paper: “Collective Care in Response to Domination: Black Queer and Trans Livingness Amidst the Crises of HIV and Incarceration”

Jacob Barry (MA 2020, Gender Studies) (Co-supervised with Trish Salah)
Major Research Paper: “A Retelling of the Trans Autobiography”

Payal Majithia (MA 2019, Gender Studies)
Major Research Paper: “Queering Understandings of Desi and Sanskari in Diaspora”

Michelle Tam (MA 2018, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis:  Queer (and) Chinese: On Be(long)ing in Diaspora and Coming out of Queer Liberalism 

Brett Willes (MA 2017, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis: Drag, Demons and Dirt: Centering Indigenous Thought in Critiques of Prairie Queer Settler Colonialism

Avery Everhart (MA 2016, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis: Crises of In/Humanity: Posthumanism, Afrofuturism, and Science as/and Fiction

Monique Harvison (MA 2016, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis: White Gatekeeping and the Promise of Shelter: Confronting Colonial Logics within Women’s Anti-Violence Services

Natasha Stirrett (MA 2015, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis:  Revisiting the Sixties Scoop: Relationality, Kinship and Honoring Indigenous Stories

Dana Wesley (MA 2015, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis: Reimagining Two-Spirit Community: Critically Centering Narratives by Urban Two-Spirit Youth

PhD (Politics), York University
MA (Politics), Queen’s University
BJHons (Journalism). University of King’s College

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Research interests
Welfare; poverty; Basic Income; gendered & racialized violence; Canadian social policy; marginalized women’s activism

I like to think of myself as an anti-poverty activist and academic who works in the area of poverty, welfare reform, anti-poverty activist politics. I am jointly appointed to Gender Studies and Political Studies. In my spare (?!) time I am currently working on a 5-year SSHRC funded project exploring Indigenous, racialized, immigrant and low-income women’s political organizing in Canada during the 1960s-1980s.  We are conducting archival and oral interviews to explore how their political strategies and agendas were quite distinctive from white mainstream feminist activism in the same era.  Don’t ask me about it unless you want to hear a steady stream of excitement for 30 minutes!

I am most interested in supervising students in the areas of poverty, Canadian social policy, and marginalized women’s activism. 

I am very fortunate to have been the recipient of a number of research awards including my current SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-23) entitled “Alternative visions: the politics of motherhood and family among Indigenous, immigrant, racialized and low-income activist women’s groups in Canada, 1960s-1980s”; a SSHRC Standard Grant (2006-2009) entitled "Who's Hurting Now? A Race, Class and Gender Analysis of Neo-Liberal Welfare Reforms in Canada", and the Chancellor's Research Award (2000-2005) to study the impact of welfare reforms under the Ontario Mike Harris Government.

Selected Publications
If I Had a Hammer: Women’s Retraining that really Works, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005

No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit: The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-1996, Toronto: University of Oxford Press, 1998.

Little, M., L. Marks, M. Beck, E. Paszat and L. Tom, "Family Matters:  Immigrant Women’s Activism in Ontario and BC, 1960s-1980s,” Maxime Dagenais and Amanda Ricci, eds., Atlantis: Journal of Women’s Studies, Special Section: Transnational Feminism, 2020, 41(1) pp. 105-123.

Little, M., L. Marks, M. Gaucher and T.R. Noddings, “’A job that should be respected’: Contested Visions of Motherhood and English Canada’s Second Wave Women’s Movements, 1970-1990,” Women’s History Review, September, 25(5) pp. 771-790. 

Little, M., “Between the Abuser and the Street: An Intersectional Analysis of Housing Challenges for Abused Women,” Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare. Vol. 72,/73, Fall 2015, pp. 35-54. 

Little, M.; E. Power and P. Collins, “Should Canadian Health Promoters Support a Food Stamp-style Program to Address Food Insecurity?” Health Promotion International, September 2014, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 184-193.