University of British Columbia

Faculty Member, Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education

Director, Center for Cross Faculty Inquiry

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Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education.

My program of research is designed so as to advance knowledge concerning the social, cultural and educational significance of new media technologies and in so doing, to make significant contributions to theoretical accounts of gendered and sexual marginality. A hallmark of my intellectual project, and its scholarly focus, continues to be the articulation of an original and productive dialogue between the discourses of critical studies of sexuality and gender, and of new media. I have conducted pioneering research that, by shifting discourses pertaining to democratization and new media away from the polarities of utopian or dystopian accounts, and by fine-grained qualitative inquiry, has reframed normative understandings both about gender and sexuality and concurrently, about the significant role of new technologies in the production of accessible public spaces. Emerging from scholarly engagements with queer and feminist theory, my program of research contributes significantly to the production of theory at the interdisciplinary intersections of critical studies of gender, sexuality, and new technologies. Making the crucial step away from both disembodied narratives of virtuality and humanist accounts of liminal subjectivities, this program of research charts new directions for sociocultural work in educational, curricular and media studies.

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