Visiting Scholars
2013-2014
Felicia Kornbluh
Women's and Gender Studies
University of Vermont
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
1 January, 2014 - 31 May, 2014
Julie Lavigne
Professor in the Department of Sexology
Université du Québec à Montréal
15 August, 2013 - 31 May, 2014
lavigne [dot] julie [at] uqam [dot] ca (email: Julie Lavigne)
Julie Lavigne is an Art Historian and a professor in the Sexology Department at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). After completing a PhD in Art History from McGill, she did postdoctoral research at the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM). She is a member of the Institut de recherches et d’études féministes (IREF), and the Réseau québécois en études féministes (RéQEF). He research examines contemporary art, feminist reappropriation of pornographic codes, the representation of sexuality in art and television, feminism and ethics. During her stay at IGSF, she will be conducting research for her FQRSC-funded project Le rapport éthique à soi et à autrui dans les œuvres de femmes artistes: portrait de la représentation de la sexualité en art contemporain. The project explores the notion of self-sexual objectification, sexual agency and ethics, as addressed by several works of art in the corpus, including works by Andrea Fraser, Jemina Stehli, Madeleine Berkhemer, Cecily Brown, Marilyn Minter, Natacha Merritt, Jenny Saville and Malerie Marder. Lavigne will start another research that examines critical feminist, queer and lesbian pornography and the concept of post-pornography in the Internet age.
2012-2013
Stacy Gillis
Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Newcastle University, UK
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
15 August, 2012 - 31 December, 2012
stacy [dot] gillis [at] newcastle [dot] ac [dot] uk (email: Stacy Gillis)
Stacy Gillis will be at IGSF from Aug 15, 2012 to Dec 15, 2012. Stacy is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is past Chair of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) and one of the editors of Feminist Theory. She has published widely on third wave feminism and women's writing, as part of her broader research interests in the intersections of gender and genre.
She is currently writing a book on the rise of the British detective novel, paying particular attention to such authors as Christie, Sayers and Allingham.
Yvette Taylor
Professor in Social and Policy Studies
London South Bank, UK
1 March, 2012 - 31 May, 2013
taylory [at] lsbu [dot] ac [dot] uk (email: Yvette Taylor)
queer_presences_and_absences_us.pdf
Yvette Taylor is a Professor in Social and Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University. She is a Visiting Scholar at IGSF (March-May 2013) working on a project titled Telling Queer Cares: Citizenship, Community, Capacity which continues her engagement with LGBTQ lives. This project explores the complexities of care in relation to a range of different queer spaces, subjects and stories of (contested) care: its purpose it to define, expand and ‘queer’ the concept, linking this to matters of citizenship, community and (in)capacity. It extends her interest in and commitment to sexualities studies and specifically to the field of LGBTQ research. Yvette was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, Rutgers University (2010-2011) and a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2012). Publications include Working-class lesbian life: Classed Outsiders (Palgrave, 2007), Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capitals (Palgrave, 2009) and, most recently, Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (Ashgate, 2012). Edited collections include: Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges (Ashgate, 2010) Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality (Palgrave, 2010) and Sexualities: Reflections and Futures (Palgrave, 2012). She has articles in a range of journals including British Journal of the Sociology of Education; Women’s Studies International Forum; Sexualities; Feminist Theory and she regularly blogs on the BSA’s Sociology and the Cuts blog and on the Gender and Education Association forum.
2011-2012
Karen Houle
Associate Professor in Philosophy
University of Guelph, Ontario
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
Lisa Adkins
Professor of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Science
Newcastle University, Australia
2010-2011
Sheenagh Pietrobruno
Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
Tracy Y. Zhang
The School of Communication
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.
Elizabeth Bullen
School of Communication & Creative Arts
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
2009-2010
Naima Larbi Benlarabi
English Studies, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
Heidi Epstein
Department of Religion and Culture, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
Caroline Bassett
Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex, UK
2008-2009
September to August:
Ellen Waterman
Lisa Guenther
September to December:
Tanya Fitzpatrick
January to August:
Isabel Arredondo
2007-2008
Margaret Denike, Carlton University
Maryanne Dever, Monash University