Scholars Database

We are currently adding to this list of currently active Canadian scholars working in queer studies or related areas.  To add yourself or someone else, contact our academic coordinators.

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Katherine Arnup
karnup@ccs.carleton.ca
Katherine Arnup is an Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. An historian by training, she has written extensively on the history of motherhood, child rearing, marriage and the family. She is the author of Education for Motherhood: Advice for Mothers in Twentieth Century Canada, a prize-winning examination of the ideology and experience of motherhood. She has written and published numerous articles on lesbian and gay parenting. She is currently engaged in a comparative study of same-sex marriage in the United States and Canada. She also volunteers in a residential hospice, providing end of life care, and she is writing a book on death and dying.
From: http://www.carleton.ca/cdnstudies/faculty_staff/faculty/arnup.html

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Jes Battis
"Battis has made his career by writing about popular culture. He writes about everything from hidden gay themes in TV to comedies like Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
From: National Post, 13 October 2007, A22.

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Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships

The Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships at University of British Columbia was mentionned in Jane Rule's obituary December 3 2007, online at http://www.legacy.com/Can/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=98961641.

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Candis Steenbergen
candis.steenbergen@sympatico.ca
Candis Steenbergen is a doctoral candidate in the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University in Montréal. Her dissertation investigates the interplay between generational rhetoric, nostalgia, and feminisms in Canada. Her current research interests include: generational debates in recent feminist theorizing, especially about the state and future of feminisms both inside and outside the academy; the role of nostalgia in the construction of histories and of pedagogical practice; third wave feminisms, postfeminisms, and civic engagement; feminist critiques of popular culture; bodies, identities and the social/cultural construction of sexualities; grrrls, grrls, girls & girlhoods, moral panics, and social history. She has served as guest editor for the Canadian Woman Studies special issue on young feminisms (“Young Women: Feminists, Activists, Grrrls” Winter/Spring 2001) and for two special issues of the GR: Journal for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (2003 & 2004). A former editor of good girl magazine, she has contributed to numerous publications, including: thirdspace [www.thirdspace.ca], Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Identity and the Body (Peter Lang, 2004), Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms (Sumach, 2001), and The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (ME Sharpe, 2004). Her first book, Girlhood: Redefining the Limits, co-edited with Yasmin Jiwani and Claudia Mitchell, will be published by Black Rose Books in the fall of 2005.
From: http://www.carleton.ca/iis/bio_steenbergen.html

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