Language use, communication, representation, and knowledge transmission over time amongst 2SLGBTQ+ and feminist folk of different generations in a Canadian context; queer temporalities; queer words/queer worlds; lesbian feminism.
Inter-generational feminisms and social justice, as well as inter-generational and cross-cultural lesbian and queer history, identity language, and cultures.
Issues of visibility, identity, embodiment, and representation are central to my scholarship, which is informed by queer, anti-racist, and anti-colonial critical theoretical frameworks, intersectional femininisms, and feminist philosophical inquiry.
MA research centred misogyny as a focal point for discourse analysis of everyday language used to describe, discuss, justify, and frame gender-based violence and harassment, using the Toronto Van Attack in April 2018 as an entry point through which to examine how language functions socially, and to explore what misogyny does. I approached the Toronto Van Attack as a case study in order to analyze the event as an instance of misogynist violence, using an intersectional feminist lens and an interdisciplinary approach guided by an awareness of our increasingly connected and networked lives.
Dr. Andrea M. Keber, Ph.D (she/her) 