University of British Columbia

Faculty Member, Language & Literacy Education

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Professor, Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia.

My program of research advances knowledge concerning the social, cultural and educational significance of networked media technologies and publics, and in so doing, makes significant contributions to theoretical accounts of gendered and sexual marginality and resilience. 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 networked pervasive media. I have conducted pioneering research in queer bioinformatics that, by shifting discourses pertaining to democratization and social 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 ubiquitous technologies in the production of access to both knowledge, and public space. Emerging from scholarly engagements with queer and feminist theory, my program of research contributes significantly to scholarship at the interdisciplinary intersections of critical studies of gender, sexuality, and knowledge technologies. Making the crucial step away from both disembodied narratives of virtuality and humanist accounts of liminal subjectivities, this program of bioinformatics research charts new directions for sociocultural work in public education, genders and sexualities, and critical media studies.

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