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.
Nancy Kang
Muriel Gold Visiting Professor, Fall 2024
University of Manitoba
Nancy Kang is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Feminisms and Gender-Based Violence at the University of Manitoba. She co-authored The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), which won the Honorable Mention for Best Book published between 2017-2020 from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Her forthcoming co-edited manuscript is titled Problematic Paradigms: Latina/o Discourses and the Contours of Americanness, part of the University of Texas Press’ Latinx Now! series. Kang’s most recent peer-reviewed scholarship appears in ESC: English Studies in Canada; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Twentieth-Century Literature; and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Recent creative writing has been published in Amerasia Journal, Meridians, The Fiddlehead, and WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. A specialist in comparative ethnic North American literatures, Kang received the University of Manitoba Teaching Excellence Award for the Faculty of Arts (2023-24) and was long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize (2023).
During her time as Muriel Gold Visiting Professor, Kang will be exploring a facet of her larger Canada Research Chair project which interrogates the complex, charged, often ambivalent connections between outlier individuals and their assumed communities. She will examine strategic representations of enslaved African American and African Canadian women during experiences of migration and flight. Using the Roy States Black History Collection at the McGill Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections, along with other primary materials like slave narratives and fictional reconstructions of enslaved women’s stories, she seeks to amplify and variegate these transnational voices, reevaluating critical perspectives from a woman-of-color feminist lens.
Past Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professors
Jessalynn Keller, Fall 2023
Associate Professor, Department of Media, Communication, and Film
University of Calgary
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor
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
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Margaret Denike
Maryanne Dever
Tanya Fitzpatrick
Lisa Guenther
Ellen Waterman