The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) invites applications for the position of Visiting Professor. These positions are open to professors who wish to spend one or two academic terms in a university environment in order to carry out research on gender, sexuality or feminist studies. The Institute offers work space and support, an ongoing seminar program, contact with other professors within McGill and in neighbouring universities - all this located at the centre of a stimulating, bilingual, urban environment.
Jessalynn Keller
Muriel Gold Visiting Professor, Fall 2023
University of Calgary
Jessalynn Keller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Communication, and Film at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age (Routledge 2015), co-editor of Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture (Routledge 2018) and co-author of Digital Feminist Activism (Oxford University Press 2019). Her research on feminist digital media cultures have also been published in journals that include Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Social Media + Society, New Media & Society, Journal of Gender Studies, and Feminist Media Studies.
During her tenure as the Muriel Gold Visiting Professor Dr. Keller will be working on a new SSHRC-funded book project, tentatively titled Stories of the Feminist Internet: A Cultural History of the Feminist Blogosphere, 1999-2016. This research seeks to understand how the North American feminist blogosphere operated as a networked media economy to develop and circulate feminist discourse on the Internet and extend collective feminist media-making practices into the digital environment, serving as an oft-overlooked foundation for the development and success of contemporary social media feminist activism, such as #MeToo. Guided by principles of intersectional feminist methods, the book draws upon interviews with bloggers in order to re-center the contributions of BIPOC and queer bloggers whose practices were foundational to the millennium feminist Internet.
Past Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professors
Agnès Berthelot-Raffard, Winter 2023
Professor of Health and Critical Disability Studies
School of Health Policy and Management at York University, Ontario
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Catherine M. Roach, Fall 2021
Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies
New College at The University of Alabama, Alabama
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Marnina Gonick, Winter 2021
Professor in Education/Women and Gender Studies
Mount St Vincent University, Nova Scotia
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Jean Baptista, 2019-2020
Professor in Museology and Social Anthropology
Federal University of Goias, Brazil
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Winter 2019
Professor in Diversity Studies
California College of the Arts, California
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, Winter 2018
Professor in English, Theatre, Film and Media
University of Manitoba, Manitoba
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Rachel Hurst, Fall 2016
Professor in Women's and Gender Studies
St. Francis Xavier Univeristy, Nova Scotia
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Brian Martin, 2015-2016
Professor in French and Comparative Literature
Williams College, Massachusetts
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
Brenda Weber, Fall 2014
Professor in Gender Studies
Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professor
Felicia Kornbluh, Winter 2014
Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies & History
University of Vermont, New England
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professor
Stacy Gillis, 2012-2013
Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Newcastle University, UK
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
Karen Houle, 2011-2012
Associate Professor in Philosophy
University of Guelph, Ontario
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
Sheenagh Pietrobruno, 2010-2011
Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
Naima Larbi Benlarabi, 2009-2010
English Studies, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
2007-2009
Isabel Arredondo
Margaret Denike
Maryanne Dever
Tanya Fitzpatrick
Lisa Guenther
Ellen Waterman