Recent News
A flier for the UCSB Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity event Let's Talk About Kink; Northwestern University's Queertopia 2021 conference logo; the lead image for my article "Gender Equality in Sports Shouldn't Hinge on a Binary."
2021: Zooming along!
January through March saw me sheltering in place, working through a winter quarter full of seminars and teaching. I completed coursework for the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program, and published my article "Gender Equality in Sports Shouldn't Hinge on a Binary," on the Fellows Blog.
In mid-April I co-hosted a panel discussion entitled "Let's Talk About Kink" through UCSB's Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. At the end of the month, I co-presented on "Quotidian Queer Activism in the Academy" at Northwestern University's Queertopia 2021 conference. Presenting again at the beginning of May, I delivered a paper entitled "Queer BDSM Intimacies in the time of Covid" at UCLA's QGrad conference. This paper drew on the research I completed with funding from the Multidisciplinary Research on COVID-19 and its Impacts (MRCI) grant program last summer.
In June I taught Introduction to Acting as Instructor of Record for UCSB's Summer Session. In addition to teaching, I spent July and August reading wonderful texts on kink, performance, affect, gender, and critical race theory in preparation for my Qualifying Exams, which I will sit in winter 2022. Wish me luck and brainwaves.
Connecting with likeminded scholars is always a pleasure. If you research kink and BDSM, please reach out using the Contact page!
To read news from 2020 and earlier, visit my Archive section.
Stay tuned for new developments.
January through March saw me sheltering in place, working through a winter quarter full of seminars and teaching. I completed coursework for the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program, and published my article "Gender Equality in Sports Shouldn't Hinge on a Binary," on the Fellows Blog.
In mid-April I co-hosted a panel discussion entitled "Let's Talk About Kink" through UCSB's Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. At the end of the month, I co-presented on "Quotidian Queer Activism in the Academy" at Northwestern University's Queertopia 2021 conference. Presenting again at the beginning of May, I delivered a paper entitled "Queer BDSM Intimacies in the time of Covid" at UCLA's QGrad conference. This paper drew on the research I completed with funding from the Multidisciplinary Research on COVID-19 and its Impacts (MRCI) grant program last summer.
In June I taught Introduction to Acting as Instructor of Record for UCSB's Summer Session. In addition to teaching, I spent July and August reading wonderful texts on kink, performance, affect, gender, and critical race theory in preparation for my Qualifying Exams, which I will sit in winter 2022. Wish me luck and brainwaves.
Connecting with likeminded scholars is always a pleasure. If you research kink and BDSM, please reach out using the Contact page!
To read news from 2020 and earlier, visit my Archive section.
Stay tuned for new developments.
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