Active Research Areas

  • Media, Technology, and Cultural Memory: Investigating how multigenerational lesbian and queer communities use various identity language, as well as analog and digital platforms, to create, preserve, and circulate the cultural artifacts that sustain their identities.
  • Language & Queer Temporalities: Analyzing language shifts, communication practices, and the transmission of knowledge over time among Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ and feminist communities.
  • Intergenerational Social Justice: Mapping cross-generational and cross-cultural queer and lesbian histories, feminist trajectories, identity language, and activist coalition-building.
  • Critical Theory: Centering embodiment and representation in scholarship informed by queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and intersectional feminist theories.
  • Discourse of Gender-Based Violence: Interdisciplinary analysis of how everyday language functions socially to frame and justify misogyny, violence, and harassment, using the 2018 Toronto Van Attack as an analytical entry point.