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Muriel Gold Visiting Professorship

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.

 

Tobias Wiggins 
Muriel Gold Visiting Professor, 2025 - 2026
Athabasca University

Tobias Wiggins (he/him) is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (AU) currently living in Treaty 7, Mohkinstsis, colonially known as Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. His research specializations include transgender mental health and sexuality, psychoanalysis, research-creation, queer visual culture, and cisgender psychology. Broadly, Wiggins’ work aims to address the continued pathologization of gender diversity and advocate for trans-competent care. He is the director of the TransLab, an interdisciplinary research hub that supports the production and dissemination of qualitative, theoretical, and arts-based research in Transgender Studies. At AU, he coordinates the University Certificate in Gender & Social Justice Counselling, which applies intersectional feminist and social justice theory to a wide variety of helping professions. Dr. Wiggins’ recent scholarly outputs include contributions to significant anthologies like The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2024), Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care (2023), Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities (2020); journals including Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2022), The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (2021), and Transgender Studies Quarterly (2020); as well as well as community-based publication projects and digital storytelling.

Past Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professors

Nancy Kang, Fall 2024
Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Feminisms and Gender-Based Violence
University of Manitoba
IGSF Muriel Gold Visiting Professor

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

2007-2009

Isabel Arredondo
Margaret Denike
Maryanne Dever
Tanya Fitzpatrick
Lisa Guenther
Ellen Waterman

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