Meet Our Faculty

Adam Davies - Assistant Professor

Sexualities, Gender, and Social Change, Music, College of Arts

Early childhood education & care, queer theory, critical disability studies, masculinities studies, poststructural theory, inclusion, feminist theory, LGBTQ+ identity, sexuality education, K-12 schooling, queer and trans theory, sociology of childhood and youth.

Jade Ferguson - Director of the Interdisciplinary Programs

English, College of Arts

19th to mid-20th century, Canadian literature, Civil Rights Movement literature and photography, New Southern Studies, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality

Jay Oliver - Assistant Professor

Classical and Modern Cultures, College of Arts

Research areas: Ancient history, Classical Studies, modern cultural studies, and the intersection of classical and modern thought.

Rowan Bell - Assistant Professor

Sexualities, Gender, and Social Change, Philosophy, College of Arts

Trans philosophy, feminist theory, metaethics, social epistemology

Affiliated Faculty

All faculty affiliated with the SXGN program maintain research and/or teaching practices related to the study of sexualities and/or genders.

Faculty Name and Rank	Department/School	Research Areas
Paula Barata, Associate Professor	Psychology, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences	Applied social psychology, women’s health and well-being, sexual assault and violence
Amanda Boetzkes, Professor	Art History, College of Arts	Ecology and feminism, modern and postmodern art, climate change
Diane Borsato, Associate Professor	Fine Art, College of Arts	Extended practices, social and interventionist practices to fine art, interdisciplinary and extended art
Samantha Brennan, Dean, College of Arts, Professor	Philosophy, College of Arts	Contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics, feminist philosophy, women’s fitness
Susan Brown, Professor	English and Culture and Technology Studies	digital history; digital humanities; gender and technology;
Julie Cairnie, Professor	English, College of Arts	Southern African literature, land crisis and the crisis of childhood in Zimbabwean literature, Canadian Indigenous-Settler relationships, postcolonial sport
Catherine Carstairs, Professor	History, College of Arts	Gender history, food history, history of health and medicine, alcohol and drug history
Dawn Cornelio, Professor	French, School of Languages and Literatures	Traduction littéraire (théorie et pratique), autofiction et l’écriture féminine contemporaine, les écrits de Chloé Delaume
Kimberly Francis, Professor	Music, College of Arts	Feminist musicology, French music 1800-1970, Nadia Boulanger, history of music pedagogy, occultism, medicine and music
Sky Gilbert, Professor	Theatre, College of Arts	Experimental theatre, Shakespearean rhetoric, euphuism and ‘the queer feminine style', dramaturgy and playwriting, sexuality and the stage, theatrical cross-dressing, male femininity in playwrighting, avant-garde directing, confessional theatre, and realism/anti-realism
Troy Hourie, Assistant Professor	Theatre, College of Arts	scenographic/performance design, installation art, art history, architecture and theatre design; current work revolves around the themes of wonder, immersion, spectatorship and intermediality
Margot Irvine, Director of School of Languages and Literatures, Professor	French, College of Arts	Women’s writing, twentieth-century French women, women in early colonial Canadian history
Mark Lipton, Professor	Media Studies, College of Arts	Digital knowledge production, Activism, Educational Technology, Social Inclusion, Digital Storytelling, Social Justice, Confronting Sexism, Health, Wellness, Privacy, Surveillance, Bio-Hacking, Bio-Art, Performance, Identity, Queer Theory, LGBTQ+ Youth, Camp.
Kimberley Martin, Assistant Professor	History and Culture and Technology Studies	serendipity in the historical research process; digital history; digital humanities; gender and technology; role of Makerspace in academia
Carla Rice, Canada Research Chair in Care, Gender, and Relationships, Professor	Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences	Activist art, art and social justice, body image and eating disorders, social inclusion
Thomas Sasso, Assistant Professor	Department of Management, Gordon S. Lang School of Business	diversity and inclusion;l the work-life interface; leadership development; precarious and marginalized work and worker; workplace victimization and conflict; occupational health and wellbeing; corporate social responsibility; continuing education, development, and training; scholarship of teaching and learning
Patricia Sheridan, Chair of Philosophy Department, Associate Professor	Philosophy, College of Arts	Women thinkers of the early modern period, virtue in Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Anne Conway, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, as well as in John Locke
Norman Smith, Professor	History, College of Arts	Modern China, Chinese women’s history, Manchuria
Christina Smylitopoulos, Associate Professor	Art History, College of Arts	Eighteenth-century satirical art, the long eighteenth-century, art curation, European Age of Exploration
John Walsh, Assistant Professor	Classics, College of Arts	Transgender identities in classical Rome, Alexander the Great, gender, heroism, masculinity and the feminine in antiquity and Greek notions of sexuality.
Alyssa Woods, Assistant Professor	Music, College of Arts	popular music, especially race, gender, and politics in hip-hop music and culture

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